What can you make with 64 Raspberry Pi units (Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer) combined with some Legos, memory and switches? The researchers at University of Southampton use a common child's building block to build a supercomputer ...

Indiana University recently dedicated Big Red II, a new supercomputer which is the fastest university-owned supercomputer in the nation.

With the expansion of cloud computing, big data and new types of data center distribution models – the data center industry has been booming. More organizations are moving towards cloud computing, application virtualization and high-density...

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), home to the Stampede supercomputer, is preparing to accelerate its Internet2 connectivity to 100 Gbps this summer, and NASA Ames selects a SGI system to support research.

With this week's unveiling of the new Xbox One gaming system, Microsoft says it will beef up its Xbox Live platform with 300,000 servers, a huge jump from the 15,000 servers currently supporting the platform.

VMware (VMW) has unveiled vCloud Hybrid Service, an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud built and operated by VMware. Here's a look at notable analysis and commentary from around the web.

An ambitious project at the University of Chicago aims to lead the nation in biomedical computation, by making the region the largest hub in the world for genetic and medical information. At the forefront of the effort is Bionimbus, an open source...

Cray announced a new addition to its XC30 systems, with the XC30-AC (air-cooled) supercomputer. The new model includes all of the advanced high performance computing (HPC) technologies offered in the Cray XC30 system, and features aggressive price...