Cisco (CSCO) announced a new Cisco Desktop as a Service (DaaS) solution, which adds highly agile, cloud-based desktop virtualization solutions to Cisco's existing desktop virtualization product portfolio.
The Tsubame-KFC system at the Tokyo Institute of Technology turned in a record performance of 4.5 gigaflops per watt, placing atop the Green 500 by using a combination of CPUs and graphics processing units (GPUs) immersed in GRC's cooling fluid.
High Performance Computing announcements this week from vendors at the Supercomputing Conference in Denver highlight a new parallel processing architecture from Micron, and customer wins from DataDirect Networks and SGI.
This year's SC13 conference marked the public debut for Chilldyne, a startup out of Carlsbad, Calif. that addresses one of the most common concerns about liquid cooling - the potential for equipment to be damaged by fluid leaks.
At the Supercomputing Conference (SC13) in Denver this week Intel (INTC) launched new software tools to gain greater insight into data, and disclosed the final form factors and memory configurations for the second generation Phi processor, code...
NVIDIA (NVDA) unveiled the NVIDIA Tesla K40 GPU accelerator, its most efficient architecture ever - achieving 4.29 teraflops single-precision and 1.43 teraflops double-precision peak floating point performance.
In a move that could help expand the market for graphics processing units (GPUs), NVIDIA and IBM will collaborate on GPU-accelerated versions of IBM's wide portfolio of enterprise software applications on IBM Power Systems.
China's Milkyway 2, also known as Tianhe-2, has retained the number one ranking on the twice-yearly Top500 list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world.
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VMware vCloud Hybrid receives a HIPAA asessment, HyTrust acquires HighCloud Security, OnApp extends its IaaS platform to external hosts, and GenieDB launches an online management console for geo-distributed MySQL databases.
