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China makes mark on Top500

14 June 2010
While Jaguar at Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility retained top spot in the latest Top500 list, it was a new entry from China at No. 2 that caught the eye

Digging into data in new ways

14 June 2010
What do you do with a million books? Or a million newspaper pages? Or a million art images? Alastair Dunning, programme manager for digitisation at JISC in the UK, discusses how new large-scale data analysis techniques of many different types of data sets can give researchers new insight.

The hidden depth of Microsoft's Technical Computing Initiative

2 June 2010
Microsoft has launched its Technical Computing Initiative with promises of revolutionising the way HPC is used by scientists, engineers, and analysts, but just how does the company intend to achieve this?

EGI promises abundant computing power for all

7 April 2010
The European Grid Initiative gets under way, and promises to offer abundant computing resources to scientists working on problems from high energy physics to sociology

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

Archive

Jaguar replaces Roadrunner as world's most powerful supercomputer

1 December 2009

HPC User Forum discusses problems with exascale computing

12 October 2009

Sandia sees data management challenges spiral

4 August 2009

Top500 list sees new supercomputers enter the fray

1 July 2009

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