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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
IBM Files Patent For 100 Petaflop Supercomputer
September 13th, 2011 : John Rath
IBM has filed a patent for a massive supercomputing system that could reach 107 petaflops, more than 12 times the compute power of the current leader in the Top 500 supercomputer rankings. Read More
IBM To Power 20 Petaflop Supercomputer
August 30th, 2011 : John Rath
IBM lifted the curtain on its Blue Gene/Q SoC last week in Santa Clara and noted that it will soon be installed in two of the most powerful Blue Gene systems ever deployed. Read More
IBM Pulls the Plug on Blue Waters
August 9th, 2011 : John Rath
In a surprise statement Saturday, IBM has terminated its contract with the University of Illinois to provide the supercomputer for the NCSA's Blue Waters project. Read More