Applications traditionally handled by the biggest of Big Iron are heading to the desktop
High-performance computing (HPC) has almost always required a supercomputer - one of those room-size monoliths you find at government research labs and universities.
The service, Cyclone, is aimed at technical computing users
SGI is rolling out what it believes is the first hosted supercomputing service on the market.
High-performance computer virtualization could provide more bang for the buck, researchers contend
The U.S. Energy Department's Sandia National Laboratories is investigating the possibility of using virtualization to allow its researchers to make better use of its behemoth Red Storm supercomputer. Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico are also participating in the project.
Air Force Research Laboratory interested in PS3 chip technology
The U.S. Air Force recently issued a request for proposals to purchase 2,200 Sony PlayStation 3 video game consoles. Does the Air Force plan to play lots of Grand Theft Auto?
Former VP aims to stir passion and urgency about climate change at SC09 conference
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Former Vice President Al Gore today told an audience of scientists, programmers and system builders at the SC09 conference here that their work is essential in the effort to avoid global catastrophe caused by climate change.
The two leading systems swapped places in the latest Top 500 Supercomputers list
A Cray supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has regained the title of the world's most powerful supercomputer, overtaking the installation that was ranked at the top in June, while China entered the Top 10 with a hybrid Intel-AMD system.
Microsoft's products will use technologies from the company it acquired
Microsoft has purchased assets in a company that specializes in parallel computing, a function used mainly in supercomputing that Microsoft aims to develop for a broader audience, the company said Tuesday.
Its Penguin On Demand service lets companies pay by the hour to run HPC workloads
Penguin Computing, which builds high-performance Linux clusters for tasks like weather modelling and product design, is taking its business into the cloud.
However, computers in the U.S. continue to dominate the list
Computers in Germany and Saudi Arabia are now among the fastest in the world, but the bi-annual Top500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers is still topped by the Roadrunner system at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory.
IBM wants to mitigate high-performance computing problems with the new services
IBM on Thursday said it is now offering high-performance computing services to customers who want to get supercomputers up and running faster.
