Latest news

University of Manchester heads up HPC network

26 January 2012
The University of Manchester is heading up a large interdisciplinary network focusing on numerical algorithms and high-performance computing

Submissions for ISC'12 Birds-of-a-Feather sessions now open

26 January 2012
The 2012 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'12) is now accepting submissions for Birds-of-a-Feather sessions and research posters

Intel confirms InfiniBand acquisition

25 January 2012

HPC Advisory Council global membership tops 300

18 January 2012

New HPC cluster system opens at TU Ilmenau

17 January 2012

Saudi Arabian supercomputing facility selects Allinea’s debugging tools

16 January 2012

Bielefeld University invests in hybrid supercomputer

16 January 2012

BGI speeds up analysis of DNA sequencing data

13 January 2012

Polish supercomputing facility gains new HPC solution

12 January 2012

CLC bio and SciEngines increase BLAST speed

11 January 2012

Interconnects play part in supercomputer success

13 December 2011

Bordeaux unveils new supercomputer

6 December 2011

News features

A meeting of minds at ISC'11

24 June 2011
As a talking point, the development of memory technologies featured heavily at this year's International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), held in Hamburg, Germany

ISC 2011: The future of GPU accelerators

21 June 2011
Paul Schreier reports from the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany

Crunching the numbers

6 June 2011
Phil Butcher, the head of IT at the Sanger Institute, discusses how HPC is being used to tackle enormous amounts of genome data

Performance optimisation speeds plant genetic studies

24 May 2011
A team of scientists is using the pattern-detecting power of supercomputers to find important relationships among genes that may be responsible for traits in plants

Innovation Center opens in Switzerland

20 May 2011
The world’s first Microsoft Innovation Center for Technical Computing has been established in Switzerland. Paul Schreier reports