High Performance Computing News

A company known for wearable PCs comes out with its own supercomputer design. What does it have that IBM and HP doesn't? November 25, 2009 By : The recent Top500 supercomputer list showed that high-performance computing is pretty much an IBM and HP world.

Long a mainstay in a few important supercomputers, and of course, the Sony PlayStation 3, the IBM Cell processor was a chip that always promised more than was shown.

SC09 Is Japan's 10 petaflops supercomputer on the chopping block? Fujitsu won't say.

SC09 The SC09 supercomputing trade show finished up late last week, but El Reg still has a bunch of things to tell you about.

At the 2009 Supercomputing Conference in Portland, Oregon, the high-performance computer QPACE was recognized today as the most energy-efficient supercomputer in the world.

SC09 Graphics chip maker and soon-to-be big-time HPC player Nvidia raised the curtain a little higher on its next-generation of graphics co-processors at the SC09 supercomputing trade show in Portland, Oregon, this week, and it is arguable that the GPU co-processors aimed at personal supers and massive clusters alike were the star of the show.

IBM's QSZ2 Cell-based blade server received nary a mention at last week's SC09 supercomputing trade show in Oregon.

Sun has pimped up its high-end Storage 7000 product with processor, cache and hard drive upgrades.

The list includes supercomputers from Saudi Arabia to Germany and the United States that are being used for a variety of applications such as astronomy, climate prediction and pharmaceutical research.

Nvidia Corp. launches the Tesla 20-series of parallel processors for the high performance computing market.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a unique new computer model called the Virtual StreamLab, designed to help restore real streams to a healthier state.

Washington, November 25 : Reports indicate that the technology designed to blast aliens in computer games is part of a new GPU computer cluster that will process CSIRO research data thousands of times faster and more efficiently than a desktop PC.

IBM's claim that it has designed the first brain simulation to exceed the scale of a cat's cortex is being dismissed as "a hoax and a PR stunt" by a rival scientist.

LSI Corporation has been recognized in the annual HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards, presented at the 2009 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis , held at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon.

PORTLAND, Ore. &#151 Supercomputers can do more to reverse the global warming trend, according to former vice president Al Gore who gave a keynote at the Supercomputer 2009 conference held here this week.

For decades, the world's supercomputers have been the tightly guarded property of universities and governments.

Justin Rattner talks about the explosion of multicore processing, bringing security to cloud computing, and processor-based networking Intel CTO Justin Rattner made his bones in the 1980s, pushing the supercomputing industry from unsustainably expensive, proprietary architectures toward affordable, off-the-shelf microprocessors.

IBM sets performance standard in independent low latency benchmark for financial markets.

Chelsio Communications Inc., the leading provider of 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters, ASICs, and storage solutions, today announced the completion of a private funding round, raising a total of $17 million.

SC09 Intel CTO Justin Rattner has a stark warning for the HPC community: Come up with a killer application or the business will stagnate.