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Cloud News: Gartner, Brocade, Joyent, Amazon
January 26th, 2011 : John Rath
Gartner says cloud is top CIO priority, Brocade (BRCD) teams with Dell and VMware on private clouds, Joyent selected by GuardTime, building an HPC cluster with Amazon Web Services. Read More
IBM Supercomputer Takes On Jeopardy Stars
December 14th, 2010 : Rich Miller
It's official: IBM's Watson supercomputer will face the two most succesful Jeopardy contestants of all time, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, in a series of matches that will will air in February. Read More
Exascale Computing = GigaWatts of Power
December 10th, 2010 : Rich Miller
Exascale computers represent the next frontier in supercomputing power. But experts say that with today's technologies, an exascale machine could require up to 7,000 megawatts of power to operate. Read More
China Building Huge Supercomputing Center
December 1st, 2010 : Rich Miller
China is building a new supercomputing center to house the world's most powerful supercomputer. The new facility in Changsha will house the Tianhe-1A system, which placed atop the new Top 500 rankings released last month. Read More
Students Build Leading ‘Green’ Supercomputer
November 19th, 2010 : Rich Miller
A team of students from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) earned third place in the Green 500 list for energy efficient supercomputing with a 33 Teraflop system that was competition's greenest self-built cluster. Read More
IBM Research A Clear Winner in Green 500
November 18th, 2010 : Rich Miller
A system from IBM Research is the most energy efficient supercomputer in the world, finishing atop the Green 500 list released today at the SC10 supercomputing conference in New Orleans. Read More
More SC10 News: Virident, Mellanox, Microsoft
November 17th, 2010 : John Rath
Microsoft announces BLAST for science research, Mellanox (MLNX) announces support for InfiniBand FDR spec, Virident offers SSD disk with 800 GB of capacity. Read More
SC10 Conference – Vendor Announcements
November 17th, 2010 : John Rath
There's lots of vendor news from the SC10 supercomputing conference. Here's a look at news from Intel, SGI, Platform Computing, Force 10 Networks and Juniper Networks. Read More
High Performance Computing at Amazon
November 16th, 2010 : Rich Miller
In a video keynote for SC10, Amazon CTO Werner Vogel discusses Amazon Web Services’ Cluster GPU Instance, a new offering that provides easy access to cloud-based GPU processing for the masses. Read More