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Article | 21/11/2012 Supercomputers face growing resilience problems
As supercomputers grow more powerful, they'll also grow more vulnerable to failure, thanks to the increased amount of built-in componentry. A few rese...
Article | 16/11/2012 World's most powerful big data machines charted on Graph 500
The Top500 is no longer the only ranking game in town: make way for the Graph 500, which tracks how well supercomputers handle big-data-styled workloa...
Article | 14/11/2012 SC2012: Top500 expects exascale computing by 2020
If the increase in supercomputer speeds continue at their current pace, we will see the first exascale machine by 2020, estimated the maintainers of t...
Article | 12/11/2012 Intel ships 60-core Xeon Phi processor
Intel hopes to deliver performance and power-efficiency breakthroughs to servers with the new Xeon Phi family of processors, the first model of which ...
Article | 16/11/2011 Amazon Web Services adds supercomputing service to its cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) wants to attract more high-performance computing users to its cloud and has launched a public beta of Cluster Compute Eight ...
Article | 12/10/2011 IBM buying cluster company Platform Computing
Extending its expertise in the field of high performance computing (HPC), IBM is acquiring cluster computing software vendor Platform Computing, the c...
Article | 20/06/2011 Japan takes back first place on Top 500 supercomputer list
A Japanese computer has taken first place on the Top 500 supercomputer list, ending China's reign at the top after just six months. At 8.16 petaflops ...
Article | 9/06/2011 IBM brings high-performance computing to the cloud
IBM hopes to help companies more efficiently use their high-performance computing resources with new software that links separate pools of resources i...
Article | 17/02/2011 IBM Watson vanquishes human Jeopardy foes
Wrapping up a three-day run on the Jeopardy game show, IBM's Watson computer has beaten two former champions in a historic match of man versus machine...
Article | 6/01/2011 IBM's Jeopardy strategy: Divide and conquer
When it comes tackling a challenge as tough as answering a human question, the best computational approach may be to break the job down into multiple ...
Article | 21/12/2010 Microsoft's Dryad technology to take on Google's MapReduce
Addressing the growing market for tools that handle very large data sets, Microsoft has released a beta set of technologies, called Dryad, to manage a...
Article | 14/12/2010 Oracle burnishes its Lustre
While a number of small companies have been ramping up support for a file system called Lustre that Oracle acquired in its Sun Microsystems purchase e...
Article | 14/12/2010 IBM to build 3 petaflop supercomputer for Germany
The global race for supercomputing power continues unabated: Germany's Bavarian Academy of Science has announced that it has contracted IBM to build a...
Article | 19/11/2010 IBM tops Green500 list
While China can take pride in topping the list of the world's most powerful supercomputers, IBM has been given another recognition: building the world...
Article | 19/11/2010 Supercomputing Top500 brews discontent
Like Hollywood's Academy Awards, the Top500 list of supercomputers is dutifully watched by high-performance computing (HPC) participants and observers...

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