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House approves supercomputing bill

April 26, 2005 Bill requires multiple agencies to shift grants toward "basic research and education" in high-performance computing. TAGS: high-performance computing, supercomputing, high-performance, agency

Start-up lures Sun supercomputing researcher

September 6, 2005 Semiconductor company ClearSpeed names John Gustafson its chief technology officer of high-performance computing. TAGS: supercomputing, high-performance computing, Sun Microsystems Inc., chief technology officer, high-performance, researcher

Photo: IBM's p5-575 server

November 9, 2004 IBM's p5-575, a specialized server geared for high-performance computing, has eight 1.9GHz Power5 processors. TAGS: IBM POWER5, supercomputing, high-performance computing, IBM Corp., high-performance, server, photograph

Memory-shared supercomputer lands in Spain

March 31, 2006 Finis Terrae, Europe's largest memory-shared supercomputer, will tackle international research projects and be furnished by HP and Intel. TAGS: supercomputer, Intel Itanium 2, high-performance computing, high-performance, Spain, Europe, Intel, HP

SGI plugs in Windows for compute clusters

January 11, 2007 Supercomputing specialist focused on Linux agrees to support Microsoft's OS for lower-end server clusters. TAGS: Silicon Graphics Inc., high-performance computing, Intel Xeon, supercomputing, high-performance, Intel Itanium, general manager, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Intel, IBM Corp., server, Dell, operating system, HP, Microsoft Windows

SGI lays off 12 percent, names new execs

March 3, 2006 Company plans layoffs to help it recover from financial problems and will "aggressively pursue new markets." TAGS: Silicon Graphics Inc., high-performance computing, high-performance, CFO, telecommunications company, exec

HP and Microsoft eye supercomputer market

June 26, 2007 Tech giants want to give high-performance computers more "mass market" appeal by making them easier to deploy, support and manage. TAGS: supercomputer, high-performance computing, high-performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., conference, IBM Corp., HP, Microsoft Corp., server

Microsoft gets on the grid

October 5, 2005 Once quiet on computing grids, the software giant is upping its commitment to high-performance computing and grid industry standards. TAGS: high-performance computing, grid computing, grid, high-performance, commitment, open standard, IBM Corp., Linux, Microsoft Corp., server, Microsoft Windows

ClearSpeed boosts IBM cluster performance

June 27, 2006 IBM's System Cluster 1350 is getting a floating-point boost from a specialized co-processor developed by ClearSpeed. TAGS: coprocessor, clustering, high-performance computing, IBM Corp., high-performance, AMD Opteron, server, AMD, motherboard

Sun's Fortran replacement goes open-source

January 12, 2007 Good-bye Fortran, hello Fortress? Server maker seeks open-source help building alternative to decades-old programming language. TAGS: Fortran, Sun Microsystems Inc., workload, programming language, high-performance computing, multi-core, open source, programming, high-performance, replacement, server

Flexing a super (computing) muscle

January 28, 2008 The U.S. remains No. 1 in the world in high-performance computing, but IBM's Dave Turek examines whether it can maintain its current domination. TAGS: Dave Turek, high-performance computing, pricing, IBM Corp., supercomputer, high-performance, computing, workstation, Japan, U.S.

Scots build green supercomputer

March 21, 2007 Machine is 10 times more energy efficient and up to 300 times faster than its traditional counterparts. TAGS: FPGA, supercomputer, high-performance computing, high-performance

ClearSpeed expands math accelerator line

May 1, 2007 The company's new math accelerator cards can plug into a wider range of servers for high-performance computing. TAGS: high-performance computing, calculation, card, I/O, server, library, high-performance, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Windows for supercomputers likely out by fall

March 3, 2005 Microsoft aims to have first cluster version of Windows ready in time for supercomputing conference this fall, company says. TAGS: cluster, supercomputer, supercomputing, high-performance computing, high-performance, C# language, conference, Microsoft .NET, programming, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Intel

Server powers launch new grid group

January 24, 2005 IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Intel are banding together to steer an open-source software package called the Globus Toolkit. TAGS: consortium, Univa, grid, high-performance computing, standards, open-source software, IBM Corp., open source, high-performance, Oracle Corp., server, Intel, HP

IBM to build Opteron-Cell hybrid supercomputer

September 5, 2006 AMD chips in Los Alamos lab's Roadrunner system to be augmented with the PlayStation's processing brains. TAGS: supercomputer, supercomputing, AMD Opteron, IBM eServer BladeCenter, IBM Corp., high-performance computing, blade, high-performance, Sony Playstation, U.S., AMD, Sony Corp., server

Microsoft gains technical-computing toehold

April 8, 2007 Compute cluster product has some appeal to customers who need integration with regular Windows machines. TAGS: Matlab, cluster, high-performance computing, modeling, Linux, high-performance, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, server, PC

Sun banks on storage integration

November 22, 2005 Acquisitions put Sun in excellent position to offer integrated storage technology options to customers, company says. TAGS: storage software, Sun Microsystems Inc., NAS, StorageTek, high-performance computing, small and medium business, acquisition, file system, Singapore, high-performance, bank, Microsoft Corp.
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