• Systems
  • By Sorin Nita
  • December 16th, 2011
Cray Delivers XMT Supercomputer Powered by Its Own 128 Thread CPUs

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

‘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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New AMD Opteron 6200 CPUs Start Supercomputing Too

Price-performance advantages add to the over 2 million Opteron cores already used in HPC

NVIDIA, Cray, PGI and CAPS Announce Parallel Computing Standard

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

NVIDIA Gets Its Tesla Inside NCSA's Blue Waters Supercomputer

One Petaflop of performance has been set as the goal

NVIDIA's Tesla Cards Simulate the Flu

NVIDIA's Tesla Cards Simulate the Flu

The H1N1 influenza virus, not the actual illness, for now anyway

IBM Installs Sandy Bridge EP Supercomputer for NCAR

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

NVIDIA Tesla Used in Russian Academy of Sciences Supercomputer

128 Tesla GPUs will be installed in HP ProLiant SL390 G7 servers

 
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