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• Article | 30/11/2010 Start-up transforms unused desktop cycles into fast server clusters

  When you consider technologies that make corporate IT more efficient by improving utilization of computing resources, <a href="http://www.networkworld...
• Article | 10/09/2010 HPC meets cloud computing with Dell's new server

  With a new range of hardware announced Thursday, Dell's is targeting high-performance and cloud computing environments that share similar hyperscale c...
• Article | 14/07/2010 Amazon introduces cluster computing for HPC apps

  Amazon Web Services says its latest cluster computing service, which it announced Tuesday, can provide the same results as custom-built infrastructure...
• Article | 31/05/2010 Bull bills Tera 100 as Europe's first petaflop computer

  French server and services company Bull has just turned on a new supercomputer for the French Atomic Energy Authority (CEA) that it hopes will reach a...
• Article | 7/12/2009 US Air Force taps PlayStation 3 for research

  The U.S. Air Force recently issued a request for proposals to purchase 2,200 Sony PlayStation 3 video game consoles. Does the Air Force plan to play l...
• Article | 18/11/2009 3D Web will save high-performance computing industry, Intel CTO says

  Three-dimensional Web technologies will save the high-performance computing industry from its current state of financial stagnation, Intel CTO Justin ...
• Article | 16/11/2009 Two rival supercomputers duke it out for top spot

  A Cray supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has regained the title of the world's most powerful supercomputer, overtaking the installation t...
• Article | 1/10/2009 Nvidia says its new Fermi GPU will run supercomputers

  Nvidia showed off a new GPU architecture on Wednesday that it hopes will allow it to move beyond gaming to play a greater role in the supercomputing m...
• Article | 9/09/2009 U.S. buys weather supercomputer with twin backup

  The U.S. has upgraded the supercomputer used to develop weather forecast models, a system so critical to meteorologists that the government has bought...
• Article | 3/09/2009 Supercomputer uses flash storage drives

  The San Diego Supercomputer Center has built a high-performance computer with solid-state drives, which the center says could help solve science probl...
• Article | 26/08/2009 Fujitsu aims for 10-petaflop supercomputer

  Fujitsu aims to deliver by early 2011 a 10-petaflop supercomputer, which would be almost 10 times more powerful than today's fastest system.
• Article | 12/08/2009 Penguin puts high-performance computing in the cloud

  Penguin Computing, which builds high-performance Linux clusters for tasks like weather modelling and product design, is taking its business into the c...
• Article | 19/06/2009 IBM offers high-performance computing services

  IBM on Thursday said it is now offering high-performance computing services to customers who want to get supercomputers up and running faster.