Amazon Web Services (AWS) wants to attract more high-performance computing users to its cloud and has launched a public beta of Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large, its most powerful cloud service yet.
Citing unforeseen complexities and greater-than-anticipated costs, IBM and the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) have abandoned plans to build a petaflop-speed supercomputer, the two organizations said Monday.
JP Morgan is now able to run risk analysis and price its global credit portfolio in near real-time after implementing application-led, High Performance Computing (HPC) capabilities developed by Maxeler Technologies.
Fujitsu has been awarded a £15 million contract for the five-year High Performance Computing Wales (HPC Wales) project.
While Watson certainly impressed the nation with its sweeping victory on the game show <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9209938/Watson_triumphs_in_em_Jeopardy_em_s_man_vs._machine_challenge">Jeopardy last week</a>, the medical community -- which IBM hopes will be first to use the technology -- may eventually become even more impressed with its affordability.
Yale University scientists have built what they call the first anti-laser, a device that can cancel out beams of light generated by a laser.
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.
China flexed its computing muscle with a supercomputer called Nebulae, rocketing to second place on the biannual Top500 list, which ranks the most powerful computers in the world.
A coalition of countries, including the US, has agreed to fund projects set up to develop software for the next generation of supercomputers, which are expected to arrive in 2019 and be 1000 times more powerful than the fastest machines today.
There is a race to make supercomputers as powerful as possible to solve some of the world's most important problems, including climate change, the need for ultra-long-life batteries for cars, operating fusion reactors with plasma that reaches 150 million degrees, and creating bio-fuels from weeds and not corn.
Bull has launched the bullx, a supercomputer that uses blade servers and water cooling to be green and fast, the company said on Tuesday.
US President-elect Barack Obama will soon outline an economic stimulus plan that will likely include billions of dollars for infrastructure projects, such as roads, bridges and new schools. Obama is also hearing calls for new funding to improve the information infrastructure and the virtual highways it runs on, and to broaden access to high-performance computing (HPC) systems.
Supercomputers from IBM are more energy efficient than supercomputing iron from rival vendors, according to latest research from The Green500.org.
Think of supercomputers and you tend to think of multi-million dollar machines that easily take up a football field. With miles and miles of cabling and cooling systems running beneath the floors.
Sun is aiming to wrest the world supercomputing crown from IBM’s Blue Gene with a US$59 million (NZ$69 million) contract from the University of Texas for its Constellation design.