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Roundup: Luxtera, SGI, NetApp, Cloudera
November 9th, 2011 : John Rath
Luxtera delivers 100 Gbps optical transceiver for high-speed networking, NASA upgrades Pleiades supercomputer with SGI platform, NetApp (NTAP) and Cloudera partner. Read More
New Fujitsu Supercomputer Has 23 Petaflop Potential
November 9th, 2011 : John Rath
Fujitsu has announced a commercial version of the technology powering the reigning top supercomputer from the June 2011 rankings, the K computer. Fujitsu said the new PRIMEHPC FX10 has the potential to create a supercomputer that could far surpass the power of the K system. Read More
Roundup: IBM, NetApp, SGI
November 4th, 2011 : John Rath
IBM testing 50-kilowatt solar array optimized for data centers, NetApp announces SPEC benchmark results, SGI selected for HPC system at university in Japan. Read More
Jaguar Transforms Into Titan With Nvidia GPUs
October 25th, 2011 : John Rath
Cray will upgrade the Jaguar supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to transform the XT5 system, currently capable of 2.3 million billion calculations per second (petaflops), into a Cray XK6 system with a peak speed between 10 and 20 petaflops. Read More
Big Blue Meets Big Data: IBM Buys Platform Computing
October 11th, 2011 : Rich Miller
IBM has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Platform Computing, a leading player in the market for high performance computing (HPC) and the mining of "big data," the companies said today. Read More
Roundup: NetApp, Tilera, Fusion-io
September 29th, 2011 : John Rath
NetApp to supply storage for Sequoia supercomputer, 6WIND software now optimized for Tilera chipsets, Fusion-io memory selected by Deutsche Bank. Read More
Airbus Deploys Modular Supercomputer
September 27th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Airbus, one of the world’s largest aircraft manufacturers, has boosted its supercomputing power with the deployment of a high performance computing cluster housed in two containerized HP Performance Optimized Datacenters (PODs). Read More
Texas Stampede: TACC’s 10 Petaflop Supercomputer
September 23rd, 2011 : John Rath
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) will build and support a world-class supercomputer called "Stampede" with comprehensive computing and visualization capabilities as part of a National Science Foundation grant. Read More
NOAA Targets Hurricanes With Computer Power
September 19th, 2011 : Rich Miller
A new NOAA supercomputing facility in West Virginia could help improve weather forecasters' ability to predict the power of huge hurricanes, which could eventually help public officials make better decisions about evacuations. Read More