$99 (€76) Supercomputer Running Ubuntu OS

$99 (€76) Supercomputer Running Ubuntu OS

The project is not yet a reality and the developers need your help

  • Systems
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • September 13th, 2012
University Builds Supercomputer Out of Raspberry Pi and Lego Blocks

University Builds Supercomputer Out of Raspberry Pi and Lego Blocks

64 credit card-sized ARM PCs stacked together to form the Iridis-Pi

14,600 NVIDIA Tesla GPUs Power Oak Ridge Titan Supercomputer

14,600 NVIDIA Tesla GPUs Power Oak Ridge Titan Supercomputer

The HPC installation is expected to become the fastest in the world

  • Systems
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • September 12th, 2012
Intel Builds 10 Petaflop Stampede Supercomputer with Xeon Phi

Intel Builds 10 Petaflop Stampede Supercomputer with Xeon Phi

It was about time something was heard about the Stampede HPC system

  • CPU
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • August 20th, 2012
How the 62-Core Intel Xeon Phi Will Match Up to NVIDIA GK110

How the 62-Core Intel Xeon Phi Will Match Up to NVIDIA GK110

The MIC cards will have 62 cores at 1.3 GHz clock speed each

  • CPU
  • By Constantin Murariu
  • July 19th, 2012
Fujitsu Will Present 16-Core SPARC64 Processors at Hot Chips Conference

Fujitsu Will Present 16-Core SPARC64 Processors at Hot Chips Conference

The company is preparing to show another supercomputing star

Intel Acquires Supercomputer File System Designer

Intel Acquires Supercomputer File System Designer

The corporation gets a little better at large-scale cluster computing

  • CPU
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • July 14th, 2012
Intel, of Course, Gets Called in by the US Government Too

Intel, of Course, Gets Called in by the US Government Too

Like AMD, the company will participate in the FastForward initiative

AMD Enlisted by US Government for Extreme Scale Computing

AMD Enlisted by US Government for Extreme Scale Computing

The FastForward Project aims to create exascale computers as soon as possible

AMD Powers 24 of the Top 100 Supercomputers

AMD Powers 24 of the Top 100 Supercomputers

One of them, called Jaguar and now number 6, was once a world leader

Intel's MIC Launch Part II: Cray's Cascade Xeon Phi Supercomputer

Intel's MIC Launch Part II: Cray's Cascade Xeon Phi Supercomputer

HPC orders are already coming in from all over the world

SuperMUC Is the First Hot-Water-Cooled Supercomputer

SuperMUC Is the First Hot-Water-Cooled Supercomputer

As odd as it sounds, the idea works and has significant advantages

IBM Powers Fastest Supercomputer Ever, Sequoia

IBM Powers Fastest Supercomputer Ever, Sequoia

Second and third places go to the K and Mira HPC systems

Top500 Supercomputer List Will Be Renewed on Monday, Intel Should Power Many

Top500 Supercomputer List Will Be Renewed on Monday, Intel Should Power Many

This will be the 39th edition and might be accompanied by a MIC launch

  • Video
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • May 9th, 2012
NVIDIA CUDA Goes Open Source

NVIDIA CUDA Goes Open Source

The company has added the code to the LLVM compiler

  • Systems
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • April 25th, 2012
NVIDIA-Powered Cloud Service Performs Bioinformatics Analysis

NVIDIA-Powered Cloud Service Performs Bioinformatics Analysis

BGI has inaugurated the “EasyGenomics” service in Shenzen, China

  • CPU
  • By Constantin Murariu
  • April 25th, 2012
Intel Signs Deal with Cray, Marks AMD’s Departure from Cray’s Supercomputers

Intel Signs Deal with Cray, Marks AMD’s Departure from Cray’s Supercomputers

They get HPC Interconnect technology and expertise initially designed for Opteron

 
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