• Video
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • August 10th, 2010
NVIDIA and Others Get $25 Million to Make GPU-Based Supercomputers

NVIDIA and Others Get $25 Million to Make GPU-Based Supercomputers

DARPA funds GPU-based HPC systems

NEC Supercomputer Market Share to Double By 2014

NEC Supercomputer Market Share to Double By 2014

Sales in Europe to be the main driving force behind the growth

AMD FireStream Powers New GPU Computing Cluster

AMD FireStream Powers New GPU Computing Cluster

Will be located at the Goethe University, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany

IBM Chills its Zurich Supercomputer with Hot Water

IBM Chills its Zurich Supercomputer with Hot Water

Hot water created from waste heat reduces carbon footprint

  • CPU
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • June 26th, 2010
AMD Expects Mix of GPUs and CPUs in Supercomputers to Change

AMD Expects Mix of GPUs and CPUs in Supercomputers to Change

HPCs purely based on x86 architecture no longer viable

China-Based Nebulae Is World's Second Greatest Supercomputer

China-Based Nebulae Is World's Second Greatest Supercomputer

Has a theoretical peak performance of 2.98 PFlop/s

  • CPU
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • April 9th, 2010
Select Researchers Get Intel's 48-Core CPU

Select Researchers Get Intel's 48-Core CPU

Chip reduces memory and communication bottlenecks

  • Systems
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • March 15th, 2010
Russian Parliament to Fund PetaFLOPS Supercomputer

Russian Parliament to Fund PetaFLOPS Supercomputer

To be built at Lomonosov Moscow State University

  • Systems
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • December 29th, 2009
SGI Sets Up Supercomputer Based at Australia’s University of Tasmania

SGI Sets Up Supercomputer Based at Australia’s University of Tasmania

The SGI Altix ICE is a 64-node cluster that will perform climate modeling and other research operations

  • Systems
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • December 8th, 2009
IBM Working on Power7-Based, 10-petaflop Supercomputer

IBM Working on Power7-Based, 10-petaflop Supercomputer

The Blue Waters HPC platform will be stationed at the University of Illinois

  • Systems
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • November 28th, 2009
Eight-Core Sparc64-VIIIfx 'Venus' Processor Might Power Japanese Supercomputer

Eight-Core Sparc64-VIIIfx 'Venus' Processor Might Power Japanese Supercomputer

Kobe-based research lab Rikagaku Kenkyusho (Riken) aims to build a Sparc-based supercomputer by 2012

  • Systems
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • November 25th, 2009
CSIRO Launches New GPU Cluster

CSIRO Launches New GPU Cluster

The cluster will process CSIRO research data thousands of times faster than desktop PCs

  • Systems
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • November 24th, 2009
Rhode Island's Fastest Ever Supercomputer Powered by IBM

Rhode Island's Fastest Ever Supercomputer Powered by IBM

The new high-performance computing platform was built by IBM at Brown's Center for Computation and Visualization

 
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