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U.S. HPC lead in danger

Posted December 6, 2011 - 5:00 pm

The DOE's exascale program is stalled, and its prospects appear bleak at a time of budget-cutting fever.
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IBM buying cluster company Platform Computing

Posted October 11, 2011 - 11:20 am

Extending its expertise in the field of high performance computing (HPC), IBM is acquiring cluster computing software vendor Platform Computing, the companies announced Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Airbus innovates with high-performance computing.

Posted September 27, 2011 - 10:36 am

Super-fly, super-high computing at Airbus.
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Clemson IT team embraces call to be entrepreneurial

Posted August 15, 2011 - 6:41 am

Five years ago Clemson University named James Bottum chief information officer and gave him the mandate to overhaul the school's IT infrastructure and build out a high performance computing environment. The goal: catapult the school into a leading research university and help attract faculty and students.
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JP Morgan supercomputer offers risk analysis in near real-time

Posted July 12, 2011 - 9:45 am

JP Morgan is now able to run risk analysis and price its global credit portfolio in near real-time after implementing application-led, High Performance Computing (HPC) capabilities developed by Maxeler Technologies.
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Oracle clears place for itself in cloud computing

Posted December 6, 2010 - 10:36 am

Oracle announced the latest version of its cloud-computing offerings that differ from others by focusing on private clouds and performance. Chargebacks might kill it, though.
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Start-up transforms unused desktop cycles into fast server clusters

Posted December 1, 2010 - 10:32 pm

When you consider technologies that make corporate IT more efficient by improving utilization of computing resources, VMware and its x86 virtualization software may be what that comes to mind.
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University of Warwick to spend £1.3m on Linux supercomputer

Posted November 26, 2010 - 10:07 am

The University of Warwick has awarded a contract for a new Linux-based High Performance Computing (HPC) facility to OFC.
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Microsoft offers "HPC" on Azure

Posted November 18, 2010 - 7:04 pm

Proteomic research is huge and complex, but many of the calculations that enable it are small, statistical calculations well suited for MPP across clusters of smallish PC hardware.
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HPC experts look past petaflop to the exascale

Posted November 18, 2010 - 3:20 pm

High-performance computing researchers consider the billion-dollar investment required to usher in the exascale era.
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Coders must reprogram how they write for Wall Street

Posted September 24, 2010 - 4:30 pm

As high-performance computing (HPC) becomes more important in helping financial services companies deal with a rising tsunami of data, there's growing angst on Wall Street about a dearth of skilled programmers who can write for multicore chip architectures and parallel computing systems.
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SSE Intrinsics and HPC

Posted April 5, 2010 - 11:26 am

A tiny assembly-level change makes a big difference in one test. Cameron promises many more examples of gains.
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The supercomputer on your desktop

Posted February 16, 2010 - 5:31 pm

High-performance computing (HPC) has almost always required a supercomputer -- one of those room-size monoliths you find at government research labs and universities. And while those systems aren't going away, some of the applications traditionally handled by the biggest of Big Iron are heading to the desktop.
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IBM offers high-performance computing services

Posted June 18, 2009 - 9:19 pm

IBM on Thursday said it is now offering high-performance computing services to customers who want to get supercomputers up and running faster.
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Research groups gravitate to IBM’s sideways server cluster

Posted May 14, 2009 - 9:38 pm

One year ago, IBM made a play for the Web 2.0 market with iDataPlex, a server cluster designed for the needs of Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace.
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Where it is hip to count flops

Posted April 30, 2009 - 4:40 pm

Supercomputers are becoming less expensive, greener, more open and clustered, making them suitable for markets beyond the traditional government labs, universities and energy (oil and gas) companies. Now, industries such as aerospace (and manufacturing as a whole), and finance (where analysis is heavily dependent on processor-intensive algorithms) are being drawn to HPC.
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Rackable buying SGI for $25 million

Posted April 1, 2009 - 7:58 pm

Rackable Systems said Wednesday it plans to buy the assets of bankrupt Silicon Graphics (SGI) for roughly US$25 million in cash, and will also assume certain liabilities.
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HPC nonsense

Posted October 13, 2008 - 3:55 pm

Microsoft, after spending decades paying no real attention to high-performance computing, wants to be an HPC player with the release of HPC Server 2008. Can you believe it? Yes, there was Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. After a long search, I found one user. He told me, "Updates that require reboots are far too frequent for production-use systems," "Jobs randomly crash," and "Few HPC applications actually support Windows compute nodes." Will HPC Server 2008 be any better?
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Bull focuses on high-performance computing with acquisition

Posted October 7, 2008 - 9:50 am

Bull is acquiring German high-performance computing company science + computing, and at the same time selling its Medicaid solutions business, it announced on Tuesday. The deals continue Bull's transformation into a high-end server company.
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