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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, Europe, Spain, Intel, HP

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, CFO, telecommunications company, high-performance, 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

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, Intel Itanium, high-performance, general manager, Linux, Intel, IBM Corp., server, Microsoft Corp., Dell, Microsoft Windows, operating system, HP

Start-up offers job-juggling software for servers

November 14, 2006 Evergrid sells software to record a server's "state" so that an administrator can switch tasks or protect against failure. TAGS: high-performance computing, high-performance, 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: grid computing, high-performance computing, grid, open standard, commitment, high-performance, IBM Corp., Linux, Microsoft Corp., server, Microsoft Windows

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., programming language, workload, high-performance computing, programming, multi-core, open source, high-performance, replacement, server

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., AMD Opteron, high-performance, AMD, server, motherboard, Intel

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: high-performance computing, pricing, IBM Corp., supercomputer, high-performance, computing, Japan, workstation, U.S.

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, high-performance, I/O, library, card, server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Sun Grid to launch this week

March 21, 2006 After struggling to release public version of computing infrastructure, Sun says it's ironed out the wrinkles. TAGS: Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc., high-performance computing, grid, high-performance, blog, AMD, 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

Microsoft gains technical-computing toehold

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

Liquid Computing launches high-end server

October 31, 2006 Ottawa-based start-up begins selling flexible machines that house dozens of AMD Opteron processors. TAGS: AMD Opteron, high-end server, x86 server, high-performance computing, Ottawa, high-performance, server, AMD

Sun hopes for growth from Project Redshift

March 26, 2007 Sun orients sales, research toward the customers with the strongest appetite for new technology. TAGS: Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc., dot-com, high-performance computing, high-performance, CEO

AMD gains, Intel fights back on supercomputer list

November 13, 2006 Some joy for both chipmakers in the latest Top500 supercomputer list, which rates high-performance computing systems. TAGS: supercomputer, supercomputing, teraflop, AMD Opteron, high-performance computing, two-processor, Sun Sparc, x86 processor, AMD, chip company, Sun Microsystems Inc., Intel, high-performance, IBM Corp.

Fujitsu aims for North American growth

April 18, 2006 Japanese tech giant Fujitsu hopes to more than double its North American revenue in the next four years. TAGS: Fujitsu, subsidiary, high-performance computing, storage system, mobile computing, Intel Itanium, AMD Opteron, high-performance, acquisition, Japan, AMD, server, U.S., Intel

IBM brings Unix, faster chip to Power blades

October 8, 2004 Big Blue says it has improved the processor of its JS20 blade servers and now sells them with its AIX version of Unix. TAGS: blade, IBM AIX, IBM PowerPC 970, blade server, IBM eServer BladeCenter, IBM Corp., Unix, high-performance computing, IBM PowerPC, chassis, SCSI, Intel Xeon, high-performance, Intel, Sun Microsystems Inc., server

Sun eyes supercomputing glory

June 26, 2007 The linchpin is a piece of hardware that conducts traffic between the servers, memory and data storage.Image: Sun's Constellation System TAGS: teraflop, supercomputing, supercomputer, Sun Microsystems Inc., Blue Gene/L, InfiniBand, high-performance computing, switch, storage system, blade, data storage, port, high-performance, networking, operation, IBM Corp.
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