High Performance Computing News

The June 2013 Top500 supercomputer list is in , and 476 of the top 500 fastest supercomputers in the world run Linux.

The proportion of high performance computing sites employing co-processors and accelerators more than doubled during the past two years, and a surprising two thirds of HPC sites are now performing Big Data analysis as part of their HPC workloads, according to the International Data Corporation Worldwide Study of HPC End-User Sites.

For the third year in a row, Purdue University has confirmed its lead in the rarified realm of supercomputing by unveiling Conte, the nation's fastest university-owned supercomputer, developed in a collaboration with HP, Intel, and Mellanox.

Version 5.5 of the CUDA tools for the first time support ARM CPUs, which are broadly used in smartphones and tablets Nvidia wants to accelerate mobile-device performance with underlying tools that enable CPUs and graphics processors to work in a coherent manner.

Intel's Xeon Phi is not only powering the world's fastest supercomputer-China's MilkyWay-2-but is also diversifying with versions that allow many more computer users to take advantage of massively parallel supercomputing.

Apple hasn't even announced a price tag or release date for the tiny new Mac Pro machines that were unveiled at WWDC, but that's not stopping one company from creating a Mac Pro server rack that will turn Apple's new pro machines into a supercomputer.

Could Apple tap Nvidia for graphics power in its mobile devices? Maybe, now that the chip maker has decided to license its graphics technology.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & BARCELONA, Spain-- -- The HPC Advisory Council, a leading organization for high-performance computing research, outreach and education, today announced that the HPC Advisory Council, in conjunction with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, will host the 2nd Annual HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference 2013 at the Campus Diagonal ... (more)

Over the weekend Barron's put out a piece touting AMD's chances of taking share in the mainstream server market that belongs to Intel with its SeaMicro microserver acquisition, a development that would tickle its tiny stock price, if it ever happened.

China has built the world's fastest supercomputer, which is almost twice the speed of the previous record-holder from the US.

A Chinese university has built the world's fastest supercomputer, almost doubling the speed of the U.S. machine that previously claimed the top spot and underlining China's rise as a science and technology powerhouse.

Grid Engine and Grid Computing, precursors to Cloud Computing and enabling technology of Big Data, achieves milestone of 20 years of innovation and continues to transform industries worldwide LEIPZIG, Germany & MARKHAM, Ontario-- -- Univa , the Data Center Automation Company and home of Grid Engine, today announces the kickoff of the 20th ... (more)

Nvidia, trying to move its graphics chips into the supercomputing market, has found a niche helping engineers build brain-like systems called neural networks.

Researchers in Northern Germany to Benefit from Deployment of World's Fastest File Storage Technology with Increased Performance, Enterprise Reliability and Scalability Zuse Institute Berlin , a world-class research institute for applied mathematics and computer science, will use DataDirect Networks in partnership with Cray Inc. as the foundation ... (more)

Federal agents appeared to be reviving the hunt for the remains of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa on Monday as they searched a field in suburban Detroit.

Intel continued to fuel its growth in technical computing Monday, with big announcements of new Xeon Phi products, and that its E5-2600 v2 processor product family and Phi coprocessors have helped catapult China's Tianhe-2 into the new number one position in the world for supercomputers.

It was supposed to be the country's fastest university-owned supercomputer. But in international rankings released today, Indiana University's Big Red II got one-upped by another college's massive machine -- one owned by Purdue.

At least, that used to be the rule in mechanochemistry, a method that researchers apply to set chemical reactions in motion by means of mechanical forces.

The software and engineering services provider Altair Monday announced that its supercomputer workload management software, PBS Professional, has been selected to manage workload for the Cray XC30 supercomputer recently put into production by the Japan Advanced Institute for Science and Technology.

The new NAG Library for Intel Xeon Phi was recently launched ahead of this year's International Supercomputing Conference, which is being held this week in Leipzig, Germany.