High Performance Computing News

Red Hat , the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced that InfoJobs.net, one of the leading employment websites in Spain, has migrated its critical web business platform to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform with the help of Essi Projects, a Red Hat Premier Business Partner.

A group of budding scientists got a chance Friday to use top-of-the- line computer technology to develop plans for treating cancer.

If you can squish all the processing power of say an IBM Roadrunner supercomputer inside a 19-inch box and make it run on about 60 kilowatts of electricity, the government wants to talk to you.

Oracle Platform for Saas Redwood Shores, Calif. i 1 2 June 30, 2009 News Facts i 1 2 Committed to providing the leading technology platform for Software-as-a-Service ) and Cloud Computing partners, Oracle today launched a new commercial licensing model that enables Independent Software Vendors to purchase license and support for components of the ...

Oracle Corp. unveiled a major chunk of Fusion Middleware 11g, the foundation for its next-generation Fusion Applications, during an event in Washington.

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REvolution Computing, the leading commercial provider of software and support for the "R" statistical computing language, announced the release of 3 new packages for R designed to allow all R users to more quickly handle large, complex sets of data: iterators, foreach and doMC.

June 30, 2009 - Verigy , a premier semiconductor test company, today introduced SmartRA , a memory redundancy analysis option for its V6000 WS test system.

Editor's Note: In this three part series, Dr. Algosa Vrancic and Jeff Meisel presents findings that demonstrate how a novel approach with Intel hardware and software technology is allowing for real-time high-performance computing in order to solve engineering problems with multi-core processors that were not possible only five years ago.

Famous US military crazytech agency DARPA has issued a challenge to the IT community: do you think it's possible to build a petaflop supercomputer that fits in a single air-cooled 19 inch cabinet and requires no more than 57 kilowatts of power? One which requires no special programming skills to use? The challenge is laid out in a request for ...

The HPCcloud discussion group has been created in order to address the growing interest inA High Performance Computing and Grid Computing in the Cloud .

Having seen its partner Sun Microsystems get the bulk of the 200 teraflops Juropa supercomputer blade cluster deal at Forschungszentrum JA1 4lich, French server maker Bull is trying to position itself as the European favorite for future deals at places such as FZJ with a new line of Xeon-based blade supers called bullx.

NewServers Inc., the leading provider of Hardware as a Service dedicated cloud servers, today announced a strategic partnership with high performance computing provider Scalable Informatics that will provide cloud storage solutions capable of supporting HPC.

The new bullx family gives Bull a purpose-built high-performance computing architecture that it hopes will distinguish it from commodity clusters, particularly for the divisional and supercomputing end of the market.

Eurotech, one of the leading companies in Embedded and High Performance Computing, presents Aurora, the revolutionary HPC system for installations of any size, up to multiple PetaFLOPS HAMBURG, GERMANY, June 27, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Eurotech, a leading provider of special purpose computing platforms, today unveiled Aurora, a revolutionary ...

AMD Opteron processors are in more of the 20 highest-performing supercomputers on the Top500 Supercomputer Sites list than any other processor.

The second-generation InfiniBand switch that Sun Microsystems has been showing off since last November made its debut this morning at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany.

Today, even as an IBM supercomputer is topping a respected ranking of speedy machines, the Armonk-based technology giant is setting a new goal to build a computer 1,000 times faster than the speediest on the planet.

Impatient to see benchmark results comparing the performance of Intel's quad-core Xeon 5500 processors to Advanced Micro Devices' six-core Opteron 2400s on supercomputing workloads - and perfectly happy to sell either kind of box to its customers - cluster maker Advanced Clustering Technologies has put the High Performance Linpack benchmark through ...

June 25, 2009, 02:13 PM - Techworld.com - Excess waste heat from a supercomputer being constructed by IBM will be used to warm nearby university buildings in Switzerland.