The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NSCA) is to retire the iForge high-performance computing (HPC) system. Founded in 1986 and part of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, ...

Scientists and researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are constantly innovating, integrating novel technologies, and "walking the talk." Since 1982, ...

All of the major HPC centers of the world, whether they are funded by straight science or nuclear weapons management, have enough need and enough money to have two classes of supercomputers. They have ...

One of the more significant efforts in Europe to address the challenges of the convergence of high performance computing (HPC), high performance data analytics (HPDA) and soon artificial intelligence ...

Oil and gas giant Total has selected the SGI’s ICE X high performance computing (HPC) system as the platform for its new supercomputer named Pangea, which will be one of the largest commercial HPC ...

A quest to help the systems software community work on very large supercomputers without having to actually test on them has spawned an affordable, scalable system using thousands of inexpensive ...

Sun has updated its Constellation System for high-performance computing, covering software, networking and storage. On Tuesday, the company announced a new quad data rate (QDR) switch, new cluster ...

Nyriad has built resilient storage systems that are accelerated using graphics processing units (GPUs), and today it is unveiling one of those systems in partnership with Advanced HPC. These storage ...

Microsoft today released an updated version of its Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 that can tap into compute resources throughout an enterprise as well as a cloud computing system. The company is hoping ...