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Argonne helps nuclear fission research through new computer algorithm

22 January 2010
A new computer algorithm developed by researchers at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory allows scientists to view nuclear fission in much finer detail than ever before

Acceleware announces partnership to accelerate solar cell simulations

22 January 2010
Acceleware has announced a partnership with Crosslight Software to deliver acceleration for thin-film solar cell and image pixel sensor simulations

CAPS Enterprise appoints Japanese distributor

22 January 2010

Argonne models evolution of universe

8 January 2010

Imperial College London enhances HPC service

8 January 2010

Oak Ridge to get the best from GPU-based hybrid cluster

7 January 2010

Call for papers at ISC'10

17 December 2009

University of Edinburgh joins Cray's Exascale Research Initiative in Europe

17 December 2009

CERN selects software tools to enable its HPC cloud

17 December 2009

Kaspersky turns to GPU processors

17 December 2009

Computer model seeks to track spread of MRSA

16 December 2009

New HPC institute set for Wales

16 December 2009

News features

Jaguar replaces Roadrunner as world's most powerful supercomputer

1 December 2009
The latest Top500 list, the 500 most powerful commercially available computing systems, has been published at SC09. Scientific Computing World reports on some of the supercomputers that made the list

HPC User Forum discusses problems with exascale computing

12 October 2009
Now operating in its 10th year, the HPC User Forum held Meeting No. 35 at the EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne) on 8-9 October, reports Paul Schreier

Sandia sees data management challenges spiral

4 August 2009
The amount of data generated from complex simulations, such as climate modelling, is often too large to be stored in a supercomputer's memory. Sandia National Laboratories is using technology from LexisNexis to help overcome this.

Top500 list sees new supercomputers enter the fray

1 July 2009
The 33rd edition of the Top500 list, issued at last week's ISC09 conference in Hamburg, shows no change at the very top, but two systems from Germany have broken into the top 10, and a new player from Saudi Arabia enters at number 14

ISC'09 focuses on climate research, aeronautics and cloud computing

1 May 2009
The 2009 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'09) will take place in Hamburg this year, with more than 1,500 attendees and more than 120 exhibitors from over 45 countries expected to attend.