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Supercomputers Extend Frontiers of Research
August 23rd, 2010 : John Rath
Supercomputing on a smart phone? Powerful computers are enabling researchers to extend the frontiers of their work in amazing and important ways. Read More
SGI Gear to Power Stephen Hawking’s Research
August 13th, 2010 : John Rath
SGI flexed its HPC (High Performance Computing) muscles recently with announcements for large research deals, including one to provide processing power for Stephen Hawking's COSMOS project. Read More
Roundup: Amazon’s HPC Cloud, vSphere 4.1
July 14th, 2010 : John Rath
Amazon (AMZN) announces the availabiliy of cluster compute instances for EC2, enabling HPC in the Amazon cloud. Also, VMware rolls out its vSphere 4.1 virtualization platform. Read More
Most Popular Videos: Supercomputing
July 13th, 2010 : Colleen Miller
We continue our look at the most-watched videos in the data center sector with a look at the Most Popular Supercomputing Videos, including one which provides a glimpse inside the NSA's supercomputing center. Read More
Roundup: VegasNAP, SGI, InfiniBand vs. Ethernet
July 6th, 2010 : John Rath
VegasNAP opens a new data center in Las Vegas, SGI unveils HPCtraining.com web portal, a look at the race between InfiniBand and Ethernet technologies for high speed networking. Read More
Blue Waters: Awesome Power, Awesome Efficiency
June 24th, 2010 : John Rath
The Blue Waters Supercomputer was unveiled Wednesday on the campus of the University of Illinois. The water-cooled supercomputer features the latest IBM technologies and is housed in a new data center facility with an expected PUE of 1.2. Read More
New Supercomputer Will Track Climate Change
June 16th, 2010 : Rich Miller
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) broke ground yesterday on a new data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming that will house one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers Read More
ISC 10: A Closer Look at a Blue Waters Node
June 3rd, 2010 : Rich Miller
In a video from ISC 10, Thom Dunning from NCSA provides a look at one of the nodes that will power Blue Waters, the powerful supercomputer housed at the new National Petascale Computing Facility at the University of Illinois. Read More
ISC10 Roundup: Intel, SGI, Bull, Cray
June 2nd, 2010 : John Rath
Intel (INTC) outlines plans for its "Knights Corner" 50-core processors, SGI unveils its Petaflop in a Cabinet offering, French atomic agency powers up its Tera 100 supercomputer, Cray receives order for XT6m system. Read More