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• iPad-controlled supercomputing as a service coming this fall

  By Tim Greene | 15 July, 2011 06:44

  Supercomputing as a service that can be controlled from an iPad could pop out of academia as soon as this fall in the form of a commercial service.

• 10,000-core Linux supercomputer built in Amazon cloud

  By Jon Brodkin | 07 April, 2011 06:47

  High-performance computing expert Jason Stowe recently asked two of his engineers a simple question: Can you build a 10,000-core cluster in the cloud?

• Supercomputing fest will spotlight world's fastest computers, high-performance issues

  By Jon Brodkin | 12 November, 2010 03:28

  One of the most fascinating and highly technical conferences in the IT industry will take place next week in New Orleans, when SC10 kicks off with seven days of big computers, and big solutions to big problems.

• China flexes supercomputing muscle in Top 500 rankings

  By Agam Shah | 31 May, 2010 18:05

  China flexed its computing muscle with a supercomputer called Nebulae, rocketing to second place on the biannual Top500 list, which ranks the most powerful computers in the world.

• Unix server sales sink; IDC cites a perfect storm

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 28 May, 2010 06:38

  The Unix server business has been hit particularly hard during the current recession.

• The supercomputer on your desktop

  By John Brandon | 17 February, 2010 06:59

  High-performance computing (HPC) has almost always required a supercomputer - one of those room-size monoliths you find at government research labs and universities.

• SGI offers supercomputing as a service

  By Nancy Gohring | 12 February, 2010 07:20

  SGI is rolling out what it believes is the first hosted supercomputing service on the market.

• Sandia tests supercomputer virtualization

  By Joab Jackson | 27 January, 2010 05:01

  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.

• US Air Force taps PlayStation 3 for research

  By Mitch Betts | 07 December, 2009 22:04

  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?

• Gore says supercomputing can be killer app in climate change

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 20 November, 2009 09:19

  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.

• Two rival supercomputers duke it out for top spot

  By Stephen Lawson | 16 November, 2009 15:08

  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 acquisition adds to parallel computing focus

  By Owen Fletcher | 23 September, 2009 17:47

  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.

• Penguin puts high-performance computing in the cloud

  By James Niccolai | 12 August, 2009 06:12

  Penguin Computing, which builds high-performance Linux clusters for tasks like weather modelling and product design, is taking its business into the cloud.

• Germany, Saudi Arabia muscle into Top500 supercomputer list

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 24 June, 2009 04:13

  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 offers high-performance computing services

  By Agam Shah | 19 June, 2009 09:07

  IBM on Thursday said it is now offering high-performance computing services to customers who want to get supercomputers up and running faster.