- Systems
- By Sorin Nita
- December 16th, 2011
Cray Delivers XMT Supercomputer Powered by Its Own 128 Thread CPUs
Installed at Noblis Center for Applied High Performance Computing
- Systems
- By Sorin Nita
- December 15th, 2011
‘Flash’ Gordon Is the First SSD-Based Supercomputer Ever Built
Delivers a whopping 36 million IOPS and 300TB of flash storage
- Systems
- By Sebastian Pop
- November 30th, 2011
PSC and SGI Build Blacklight Supercomputer with Shared Memory
Will have 32 terabytes of memory partitioned into two connected 16 TB shared-memory nodes
- Systems
- By Sorin Nita
- November 30th, 2011
Opteron 6200 CPUs Will Power 300TFlop Kyoto University Supercomputer
Plans call for Cray to deliver a 400PFlop system in 2014
- Systems
- By Sorin Nita
- November 23rd, 2011
Nvidia Tesla GPUs Power World’s Greenest Supercomputer
Deliver 958 megaflops of processing power per watt
- CPU
- By Sebastian Pop
- November 18th, 2011
IBM Wants to Make Liquid Processors
Handheld supercomputers aren't so unfeasible anymore
- Systems
- By Sorin Nita
- November 17th, 2011
IBM to Deploy 20 Pflops Blue Gene/Q Supercomputer at LLNL
The machine could become the fastest supercomputer in the world
- CPU
- By Sebastian Pop
- November 16th, 2011
Intel Answers Our Questions, Knights Corner Demystified
New parallel processing chip for supercomputers will have the PCI Express form factor
- CPU
- By Sebastian Pop
- November 16th, 2011
NVIDIA Bested, Intel Demos 1 TFLOPS Knights Corner Accelerator
50-core KNC accelerator makes its appearance at SC11
- Systems
- By Sorin Nita
- November 15th, 2011
Japan 'K Computer' Becomes World's Fastest Supercomputer Yet Again
The first supercomputer that manages to retain its TOP500 crown
- Systems
- By Sebastian Pop
- November 15th, 2011
Purdue University Has the Fastest Campus Supercomputer
Ranked 54 on Top500 list, it is made of HP Proliant servers using Sandy Bridge chips
- CPU
- By Sebastian Pop
- November 15th, 2011
New AMD Opteron 6200 CPUs Start Supercomputing Too
Price-performance advantages add to the over 2 million Opteron cores already used in HPC
- Technology & Gadgets
- By Sebastian Pop
- November 14th, 2011
NVIDIA, Cray, PGI and CAPS Announce Parallel Computing Standard
Makes heterogeneous CPU/GPU computing installations easier to use
- Systems
- By Sebastian Pop
- November 14th, 2011
NVIDIA Gets Its Tesla Inside NCSA's Blue Waters Supercomputer
One Petaflop of performance has been set as the goal
- Technology Blog
- By Sebastian Pop
- November 12th, 2011
NVIDIA's Tesla Cards Simulate the Flu
The H1N1 influenza virus, not the actual illness, for now anyway
- Systems
- By Sorin Nita
- November 8th, 2011
IBM Installs Sandy Bridge EP Supercomputer for NCAR
Sports 74,592 computing cores for a total of 1.6 petaflops
- Video
- By Sebastian Pop
- November 8th, 2011
NVIDIA Tesla Used in Russian Academy of Sciences Supercomputer
128 Tesla GPUs will be installed in HP ProLiant SL390 G7 servers