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Intel Xeon 5400-Series to Power Cray CX1 Supercomputer

As some of you probably already know, Intel has just released its first 6-core Xeon processors, designed to bring a whole new level of performance to upcoming server systems. Although still newcomers on the market, the new server-class CPUs have already proven their potential, as they have been built in several serve...

17 September 2008
07:10 GMT

Cray Teams Up with Intel in Supercomputing, Leaves AMD in Agony

Supercomputer builder Cray has signed a multi-year collaboration agreement with Intel regarding high-performance computing systems. Under the new deal, the two partners will develop new multi-core technologies that are alleged to rush the advent of multi-petascale systems.According to a joint statement released by th...

29 April 2008
03:06 GMT

Cray's Petaflop-Scale Supercomputer: World's Most Powerful Machine

Cray is currently working on a next-generation massively parallel processor (MPP) supercomputer, that will be shipped to the University of Tennessee when it is finished. Probably the most powerful in the world, the petaflop-scale monolith will be used in scientific research, including global climate change research, ...

8 April 2008
11:04 GMT

Cray's Supercomputers Are Slowly Becoming Hypercomputers

Supercomputer manufacturer Cray is heading towards a new generation of computing machines with the advent of two new offerings in their XT supercomputer series. The new computers are built on the XT5 infrastructure and support field programmable gate arrays (fpgas), a feature that makes them entirely adaptive superco...

21 January 2008
11:19 GMT

Meet HECTOR, Britain's Fastest Supercomputer

The European supercomputer top is about to change as of today with the advent of the new "abacus" called Hector. Located back in UK, Hector is the fastest supercomputer in the kingdom, and, at the same time, one of the most powerful computing clusters on the old continent. It sums up the power of around 12,000 deskto...

15 January 2008
03:40 GMT

Want A Really, Really Fast Processor?

A Silicon Valley company just announced that they started shipping a FPGA based coprocessor designed to be used on a socket 940 multiprocessor motherboard that is normally used to house one or more AMD Opteron processors. DRC Computer says that its RPU (reconfigurable processing unit) eliminates bottlenecks like limi...

14 July 2007
06:37 GMT




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