2008 news
High-energy physics team sets data-transfer records
12 December 2008
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) set new records for sustained data transfer among storage systems during the SuperComputing 2008 (SC08) conference recently held in Austin, Texas.
DEISA dishes out scientific supercomputing awards
12 December 2008
Forty-two scientific projects have been awarded supercomputing resources through DEISA, the EU's infrastructure of supercomputing systems.
University deploys InfiniBand network
26 November 2008
The University of Oklahoma (OU) Supercomputing Center for Education and Research (OSCER) has deployed QLogic InfiniBand adapters and switches as part of its new Linux cluster, known as Sooner
NASA selects workload management software
26 November 2008
The NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division at NASA Ames Research Center in California is using PBS Professional workload management software, from Altair Engineering's GridWorks business unit, to manage its new Pleiades cluster
Networking leaders address 100GbE needs
25 November 2008
Internet2, ESnet, Infinera, Juniper Networks and Level 3 Communications have agreed to work together to develop and test emerging 100GbE technologies
JSC selects partners for Juropa project
25 November 2008
ParTec has joined several partners in supporting the Juropa (Julich Research on Petaflops Architectures) project undertaken by Forschungszentrum Julich (JSC)
LSI joins Hyperion project at Lawrence Livermore
25 November 2008
LSI has teamed up with nine computing industry leaders at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to accelerate the development of powerful next-generation Linux clusters
Darkstrand adds New Mexico to supercomputing network
25 November 2008
Darkstrand has added the New Mexico Computing Applications Center to the facilities that can be accessed via the former's high-speed fibre optic network
Argonne nets SC08's HPC Challenge award
25 November 2008
The US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has won the HPC Challenge award at SC08 in Austin, Texas
Georgia Tech announces research centre plans
25 November 2008
The Georgia Institute of Technology is to create the Georgia Tech Center for Manycore Computing, a research centre for innovations in computer architecture.
Other years
Archive
Simulation breaks 1 billion computational cell barrier
25 November 2008
Workload scheduling helps propel Jaguar into Top500
25 November 2008
Mitrionics announces support for Xilinx and Nallatech
25 November 2008
51,200-core system boosts NASA to No 3
25 November 2008
Sundance wins software design award
25 November 2008
PRACE aims at petaflop/s-class computing – CSC is part of the project
19 November 2008
Tokyo Tech upgrades TSUBAME supercomputer
19 November 2008
Roadrunner pips Jaguar to Top500 winning post
18 November 2008
Geophysicists use GPU computing to find oil and gas
12 November 2008
Sandia National Labs improves HPC storage system
12 November 2008
US Department of Energy increases supercomputing power
12 November 2008
Blue Ice supercomputer goes green
31 October 2008
Where to find 85 Teraflops of scientific supercomputing power
30 October 2008
HPC for all in MathWorks double whammy
30 October 2008
EGEE now running Matlab parallel computing products
23 October 2008
PRACE investigates application requirements
21 October 2008
Hybrid OS cluster solution for oil and gas market
2 October 2008
IBM invests in cloud computing for emerging markets
25 September 2008
Kodak uses cluster solution to aid image sensor design
25 September 2008
AcuSolve now supports Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008
25 September 2008
Multicore programming aids breast cancer detection
25 September 2008
Inaugural PRACE seminar hailed a success
25 September 2008
CEA joins DEISA
18 September 2008
OptimaNumerics signs up Cluster Tech
15 September 2008
GEANT2 connects CERN’s LHC computing grid
15 September 2008
NCSA to add 62 teraflops of HPC power
10 September 2008
GEANT2 to get community help site
1 September 2008
PRACE selects Petaflop/s HPC sites
1 September 2008
The Nuclear Industry’s HPCC gem
11 August 2008
Platform Computing acquires MPI business from Scali AS
6 August 2008
GIS technology given parallel processing boost
6 August 2008
HECToR joins Deisa network
6 August 2008
IBM to provide Met Office supercomputer
6 August 2008
IBM invests $400m in cloud computing centres
5 August 2008
UK supercomputer rises to scientific challenges
5 August 2008
Upgraded graphics enhance whiplash research
31 July 2008
GPU computing aids US weather forecasting
31 July 2008
PRACE to unveil six Petaflop prototypes
30 July 2008
Barcelona launches prototype supercomputer
30 July 2008
EGI Blueprint under discussion at third European Grid Initiative workshop
17 July 2008
University of Birmingham launches BlueBEAR computational cluster
17 July 2008
First Cuda Centre of Excellence named
8 July 2008
Trio sweeten up HPC
8 July 2008
UK cluster upgrade turbo charges university's HPC power
8 July 2008
Nvidia Tesla attracts thousands of HPC users
8 July 2008
HP deploy Finis Terrae supercomputer
1 July 2008
Biologists get HPC power to their desktops
20 June 2008
Historical computer revs up car rally
20 June 2008
Supercomputer aims high for greener aviation
13 June 2008
Green computing dominates HPC workshop
11 June 2008
Bristol University joins UK National Grid Service
9 June 2008
Tech companies put in the hot seat
28 May 2008
DEISA2 signs up for European HPC ecosystem
23 May 2008
EC spends €4m on programming of multi-core systems
22 May 2008
Deutsche Telekom opens supercomputer for aviation research
20 May 2008
Cray doubles size of scientific supercomputers
19 May 2008
Grid supercomputer to tackle rice crisis
16 May 2008
Eurotech and Intel double up for HPC
14 May 2008
Fast and slow light race to be future computing technology
14 May 2008
HPC helps plug data management leak
14 May 2008
ISC ’08 unlocks keynotes
14 May 2008
£7 million supercomputer facility opens
6 May 2008
Nvidia to sponsor Stanford parallel computing lab
6 May 2008
Cray and Intel team up for future supercomputing tech
2 May 2008
Oxford scientists get £3m supercomputing boost
21 April 2008
Scientists go with the flow for energy-efficient supercomputer
14 April 2008
Pay-per-use supercomputing for the masses
14 April 2008
Interactive Supercomputing launches parallel computing blog
26 March 2008
Computing helps discover the origin of life
20 March 2008
Scientific computing on ice
20 March 2008
ISC 08 seeks birds of a feather
7 March 2008
Supercomputing essential for 'cyberscholarship' future
5 March 2008
