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Article | 7/05/2013 Cray offers a more modest supercomputer for the enterprise
Supercomputer manufacturer Cray has expanded its portfolio of systems for the technical enterprise market.
Article | 29/03/2013 Dell working on ARM supercomputer prototypes
Not fazed by a takeover battle looming on the sidelines, members of Dell's research division are putting together the pieces for prototype ARM superco...
Article | 20/03/2013 Swiss supercomputer aims to predict mountain weather with help of GPUs
The Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) is going to upgrade its supercomputer with Nvidia GPUs to more accurately predict the weather in the s...
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 | 13/11/2012 In Pictures: The 10 most powerful supercomputers on the planet
The latest Top500 list details the world's mightiest silicon
Article | 12/11/2012 Cray bumps IBM from Top500 supercomputer top spot
The U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory's newly installed Titan system, a Cray XK7, has been anointed as the world's fastest super...
Article | 12/11/2012 Nvidia, AMD release graphics processors for supercomputing
Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices on Monday announced high-performance graphics chips for supercomputers.
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 | 8/11/2012 Cray's next supercomputer has speedy interconnect
For its next generation of supercomputers, Cray has focused on radically improving the I/O (input/output) of individual nodes. The new XC30 supercompu...
Article | 31/10/2012 China us building a 100-petaflop supercomputer
As the U.S. launched what's expected to be the world's fastest supercomputer at 20 petaflops, China is building a machine that is intended to be five ...
Article | 29/10/2012 ORNL boosts U.S. supercomputing power with 20-petaflop Titan
The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory on Monday completed the deployment of a 20-petaflop supercomputer called Titan, which th...
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...