• GPU News: Cray Awarded $32 Million Contract

    March 25th, 2013 : John Rath

    Cray announced that it has signed a contract with the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) to upgrade and expand its Cray XC30 supercomputer. Cirrascale and Penguin also unveil news on GPU technologies. Read More

  • European Supercomputer to Map Human Brain

    March 22nd, 2013 : Colleen Miller

    This video gives an overview of JuQueen, a new supercomputer recently unveiled at a research center in Juelich, Germany, which is the fastest supercomputer in Europe, capable of performing quadrillions of calculations per second. Read More

  • Behind Blue Waters: Assembly of Cray XE6 Blades

    March 20th, 2013 : Colleen Miller

    What goes into making a supercomputer? This video shows the assembly of Cray blades that will go into Blue Waters, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications project at the University of Illinois. Read More

  • Eurora Sets Supercomputing Energy Efficiency Record

    February 1st, 2013 : John Rath

    The new Eurora system has set a new record for supercomputing energy efficiency, reaching 3,150 megaflops per watt of sustained performance - a mark 26 percent higher than the top system on the most recent Green500 list of the world's most efficient supercomputers. Read More

  • Sequoia Supercomputer Breaks 1 Million Core Barrier

    January 31st, 2013 : John Rath

    The Stanford Center for Turbulence Research (CTR) has set a new record in computational science, using the Sequoia supercomputer with more than one million computing cores to solve a complex fluid dynamics problem — he prediction of noise generated by a supersonic jet engine. Read More

  • Time-Lapse: A Supercomputer in 90 Seconds

    January 16th, 2013 : Colleen Miller

    A time-lapse video shows the construction of the Fujitsu Primergy high-performance cluster as it is assembled in Australia. Read More

  • Cray Supercomputer Powers German Weather Service

    January 16th, 2013 : John Rath

    Cray announced it has been awarded a $23 million dollar contract to provide two Cray XC30 supercomputers and two Cray Sonexion 1600 storage systems to Germany's National Meteorological Service Read More

  • Encanto Supercomputer May Be ‘Sold in Pieces’

    January 2nd, 2013 : Rich Miller

    The Encanto supercomputer, which was the third-fastest system in the world in 2008, has been repossessed by the state of New Mexico and will likely be sold for parts to three universities, local media reported last week. Read More

  • HPC News: Cray, NVIDIA Win Supercomputing Contracts

    December 18th, 2012 : John Rath

    Cray announced it has been awarded a $39 million contract from the North-German Supercomputing Alliance (HLRN) to deliver a distributed Cray XC30 supercomputing system. Meanwhile, NVIDIA announced that it has been awarded a contract worth up to $20 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Read More

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