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• NIWA supercomputer back online

  NIWA confirmed today that the organisation's supercomputer, on which attempts were made by unauthorised parties late last week to gain access, was put back online on Saturday evening and all services resumed.

• AUT gets a supercomputer, courtesy of Gen-i

  Telecom’s ICT services division Gen-i has donated a supercomputer to AUT University that will now be used to support student learning and boost research for radio astronomy.

• Indiana University dedicates biggest college-owned supercomputer

  Indiana University today dedicated the fastest supercomputer owned by a university to date -- the new Big Red II system.

• Victoria's Trifid supercomputer to hit 45.9 TFLOPS

  A new supercomputer being installed by RMIT University, La Trobe University and the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC) will be ready for use on 17 November.

• U.S. Energy lab nabs 10-petaflop supercomputer for research

  The <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/us-tries-fire-mighty-offshore-wind-energy-pro">U.S. Department of Energy</a> today said it would use IBM's 10-petaflop Blue Gene supercomputer to help researchers design ultra-efficient electric car batteries, understand <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/050410-layer8-energy.html">global climate change</a> and dig up space exploration mysteries.

• IBM to build massive supercomputer for US government

  The US government has hired IBM to build a supercomputer with more power than all the supercomputers on the Top 500 supercomputer list combined.

• Supercomputer project a super IT stunt

  At Purdue University recently, the IT staff built a supercomputer. A world-class supercomputer. Out of PCs. Using just local IT talent. (OK, a team from Indiana University also helped). And it was done in less than a day.

• Supercomputing sites split on MS HPC server

  Scott Houston of the New Zealand Supercomputing Centre believes the new Microsoft HPC Server 2008 offers much potential for his organisation.

• Alleged Cisco hacker convicted in Sweden

  A 19-year-old from Uppsala, Sweden, has been found guilty on seven counts of unauthorised access to Swedish university servers and research computers. He is also suspected by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation of breaking into servers at Cisco Systems and stealing classified source code.

• Playstation cluster creates cheap supercomputer

  A professor at the University of Massachusetts wasn't just goofing off when he started hooking up one Playstation 3 system after another.

• NZ science needs more IT grunt: report

  Kiwi scientists need two different kinds of supercomputers, but their big-computing needs aren&#8217;t being fully met, says a report on New Zealand&#8217;s science infrastructure just released by the Research Infrastructure Advisory Group (RIAG).

• InterGrid aims for smart, on-demand supercomputing

  There are better ways of providing supercomputing services than running a single huge set of processors in a country remote from most major markets, NZ Supercomputer Centre technology chief Scott Houston has discovered.

• Stormy weather strikes rival forecasting agencies

  A mediator has been appointed to smooth out the stormy relationship between MetService and the National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), following allegations that farmers have suffered because the two don&#8217;t cooperate enough.

• IBM, Cray win US supercomputer contracts

  IBM and Cray have beat out Sun Microsystems to win major US government contracts to design a new generation supercomputer.

• IBM holds lead on Top500 Supercomputers list

  IBM has maintained its lead, and its bragging rights, over rivals in the number of supercomputer systems it operates throughout the world.