News features
HPC to bounce back in 2010
22 February 2010
When will the HPC market recover from the economic downturn? Which are the hot segments that will drive growth? Which are the most promising technologies? Paul Schreier hears the predictions of market research company IDC
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
Archive
ISC'09 focuses on climate research, aeronautics and cloud computing
1 May 2009
More cores means slower supercomputing
20 January 2009
Accessibility and green issues dominate SC08
3 December 2008
Microsoft dives into cloud computing with Windows Azure
30 October 2008
Fast cars and supercomputers
29 October 2008
Major conference programme at SC08
22 October 2008
ISC'08 boasts record attendance figures
3 July 2008
Climate change challenges HPC
20 June 2008
Supercomputing tech accelerates science
19 June 2008
HPC bones up on medical simulations
18 June 2008
Cardiff University gets HPC Centre of Excellence
3 June 2008
DEISA symposium talks HPC e-Infrastructures
20 May 2008
Tetra Pak packs a HPC punch for fluid simulations
10 April 2008
HPC centre lets scientists try-before-they-buy
10 April 2008
Why supercomputing the stars needn’t cost the Earth
25 March 2008
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