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• Article | 31/03/2012 Intel plans 'superchip' for high-performance computing

  Intel is investing in the development of a "superchip" for high-performance computing systems that the company hopes will raise its supercomputing pro...
• Article | 1/03/2012 US lab aims for fastest supercomputer with Titan

  A government research lab in Tennessee will deploy a new supercomputer later this year that could put the U.S. back in contention for the top spot on ...
• Article | 10/02/2012 Cray courts the big-data market

  Supercomputer company Cray has created a new division that will sell big-data systems, the company has announced. The division will market its offerin...
• Article | 14/12/2011 Nvidia: Gaming systems to reach 'tens of teraflops' by 2019

  Graphics processor maker Nvidia expects gaming systems will reach a performance of "tens of teraflops" by the end of the decade, and be capable of dis...
• Article | 16/11/2011 Intel pushes 50-core chip, mulls exascale computing

  Intel is drumming up support for its latest 50-core Knights Corner and Xeon E5 server chips, which are key elements in the company's plans to scale pe...
• 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 | 15/11/2011 Fujitsu to team with Whamcloud in Lustre development

  Fujitsu said Tuesday it will work with Whamcloud to develop new features for the open-source Lustre file system aimed at high-performance computing.
• Article | 15/11/2011 Top500 list passes another milestone: 10 petaflops

  Japan's K Computer has retained its pole position on the Top500 list of fastest supercomputers and become the first machine on the list to achieve per...
• Article | 31/10/2011 China's newest supercomputer uses homegrown chips

  China has built its first supercomputer based entirely on homegrown microprocessors, a major step in breaking the country's reliance on Western techno...
• Article | 3/10/2011 Adapteva aims 64-core chip at tablets, smartphones

  Smartphones and tablets are demanding more computing power, and chip company Adapteva hopes to bring server-type performance to the devices with a chi...
• Article | 9/08/2011 IBM, NCSA abandon petascale supercomputer project

  Citing unforeseen complexities and greater-than-anticipated costs, IBM and the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications...
• Article | 12/07/2011 JP Morgan supercomputer offers risk analysis in near real-time

  JP Morgan is now able to run risk analysis and price its global credit portfolio in near real-time after implementing application-led, High Performanc...
• Article | 11/07/2011 China unveils another supercomputer -- but not its fastest

  China has built another supercomputer using the same technology as the Tianhe-1A system, which reigned briefly as the world's most powerful supercompu...
• Article | 21/06/2011 IDC: High-performance computing poses challenges for SMBs

  Cloud computing could help boost the use of high-performance computing (HPC) among small and medium-size businesses, but there are hurdles that have t...
• Article | 20/06/2011 SGI, Intel plan to speed up supercomputers 500 times by 2018

  Silicon Graphics International hopes by 2018 to build supercomputers 500 times faster than the most powerful today, using specially designed accelerat...