supercomputers
RSS supercomputersJaguar races to fastest supercomputer glory with AMD's juice
News AMD processors power the top three fatest supercomputers in the world, according to a new list published late last week. The list names the fastest supercomputer as the Jaguar - otherwise known as the Cray XT5... [17 Nov 2009]
Roadrunner supercomputer keeps ahead of the race
News That's according to the twice yearly Top500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world, which is to be announced Tuesday morning at the 2009 International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany. [23 Jun 2009]
AMD64 Technology Supports World-Class Research
White Paper This powerful new cluster has five to ten times the computational power density of the university's existing 64-node Helix, which just two years ago was ranked the most powerful in the country and in the world's top 500... [12 Jun 2009]
iPhone apps, Antique PCs, Microsoft R&D and supercomputers
Photo The University of Leicester's Spectrum HPC is one of the main supercomputers churning through millions of observations from robotic wide angle telescopes - in the hope of a telltale glimpse of a distant planet. [02 Jun 2009]
Photos: The top five UK supercomputing projects
Photo At the University of Leicester, the Spectrum HPC is one of the main supercomputers churning through millions of observations from robotic wide angle telescopes - as part of the UK SuperWASP project - in the hope of a... [18 May 2009]
Grid Computing: Extending the Boundaries of Distributed IT
White Paper It explains why the company is committed to using industry standards to grid-enable all HP products—from the smallest handhelds, printers, and PCs to powerful storage arrays and supercomputers. This white paper... [18 Mar 2009]
Kurzweil and friends launch Silicon Valley university
News Photos: Supercomputers unlocking the brain's secrets Starting this summer, some of the world's leading thinkers in exponentially growing technologies will be gathering annually at Nasa Ames Research Center, in the heart... [03 Feb 2009]
Mile high text for British Airways' business fliers
News Photos: Supercomputers unlocking the brain's secrets British Airways is to launch an in-flight SMS and email service for business travellers flying between London and New York. Passengers on a twice daily, all... [27 Jan 2009]
Middleware Integration and Deployment Strategies for Cyberinfrastructures
White Paper The architecture offers interactive, real-time backends, batch operated small scale computational clusters, batch operated large scale remote supercomputers, and a wide area peer-to-peer network. Virtual Organizations... [03 Jan 2009]
Photos: Windows 7, supercomputers, Google Labs, iPill
Photo The Merlin computing cluster at Cardiff University's Advanced Research Computing is one of the fastest supercomputers in a UK university. Attendees got to have a play with Microsoft's Vista replacement, Windows 7, at the... [27 Nov 2008]
IBM lands Darpa 'build a brain' contract
News Supercomputers unlocking the brain's secrets IBM and five university partners have been awarded a Darpa contract to work on a cognitive computing project that will, essentially, attempt to simulate the brain's power and... [21 Nov 2008]
Photos: The world's fastest supercomputers revealed
Photo Able to slice through quadrillion tasks every second, the searing performance of US supercomputers once again monopolised a list of the world's processing powerhouses. The colossi of computing took their places on the... [17 Nov 2008]
Photos: Brain of Britain
Photo The Merlin computing cluster at the Cardiff University is one of the fastest supercomputers in a UK university. This puts it well inside the top 100 most powerful supercomputers in the world. The... [07 Nov 2008]
An Evaluation of Current High-Performance Networks
White Paper High-end supercomputers are increasingly built out of commodity components, and lack tight integration between the processor and network. This often results in inefficiencies in the communication subsystem, such as high... [22 Oct 2008]
High-Performance Computing: Application to Ab-Initio Simulations of X-Ray Absorption Spectra From Nanoparticles
White Paper High-Performance Computing (HPC) is associated with the use of high-end computer systems, so-called 'Supercomputers', for solving complicated computational problems. Today HPC infrastructure is a critical resource for... [22 Oct 2008]
