HPC
Prodigal Cray CTO Looks Ahead To Converged Analytics
At the end of the summer, Steve Scott, the chief technology officer who brought many of Cray's interconnects and systems to life in the past several decades, came back ...Full Article
Dell Pushes Up Server Density With FX
Since founding its Data Center Solutions unit back in May 2006, which began with a custom server drawn on the back of a bar napkin at the Driskell Hotel ...Full Article
Intel Datacenter Biz Profits From Hyperscale, HPC Build Outs
In most cases, saying the datacenter is hot is a bad thing, but not so when talking about the financial results of chip maker Intel. The company just reported ...Full Article
So You Want To Be A Financial Services HPC Programmer?
Financial services companies care about three things: Money, security, and programming on the fastest systems they can afford. You can't be a competitive bank, brokerage, trader, or hedge fund ...Full Article
China Slowdown, HPC Stall Hits IBM System Sales
The Chinese government is in the middle of putting together an economic reform and investment plan, and spending by state-owned industries has stalled. This has affected the performance of ...Full Article
GE, Sandia National Lab Use HPC to Discover Pathway to Quieter, More Productive Wind Turbines
GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric Company, announced research that could significantly impact the design of future wind turbine blades. Utilizing the power of ...Full Article
IR’s R8 RAD-Hard MOSFETs Increase Efficiency Up to 6% While Reducing Footprint 50%
International Rectifier, IR, a world leader in power management technology, introduced two high performance R8 radiation hardened (RAD-Hard) power MOSFETs optimized for space grade point-of-load (POL) voltage regulator applications.Full Article
Some Like IT Cold: Intelligence Agencies Push for Low-Power Exascale
Like the rest of the research world, intelligence agencies are facing some difficult challenges when it comes to fielding the next generation of supercomputers. To help usher in a ...Full Article
U.S. Puts Top Supercomputer up for Rent
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Vulcan_LLNL.png" alt="" width="95" height="95" border="0" />In an effort to make the country more competitive, the federal government has made one of the country’s most powerful supercomputers ...Full Article
Breaking Down Barriers to HPC
The tale of the "missing middle" is all-too-common for many small-to-medium-sized manufacturers looking for a digital leg up on their competition. And at this year's International Supercomputing Conference, the ...Full Article
