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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

News image4 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

News image1 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