The precise point of departure in the history of almost anything of significance – of a country, a company or a technology – is usually imperceptible. A new chapter in the continually evolving HPC ...

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, ...

File systems have never been the flashiest segment of the IT space, which might explain why big shakeups and new entrants into the market don’t draw the attention they could. Established vendors have ...

The Jetstream2 cloud HPC system has entered full production. A collaborative cloud system across five institutions, the supercomputer can deliver an aggregate peak performance of 8 petaflops, and has ...

Whether the application is floating-point intensive, integer based, uses a lot of memory, has significant I/O requirements, or its widespread use is limited by purchased licenses, a system that ...

As part of cthe 50th anniversary celebrations for the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), “In Their Own Words” is a Q&A series featuring voices from across the NERSC ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...