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

Archive

Future challenges within HPC

18 May 2011

Supercomputing transforms study of evolutionary relationships

11 April 2011

Research gives new role for the cloud

6 January 2011

China grabs top spot in Top500 list

15 November 2010

Pan-European programme calls for project bids

3 November 2010

Formula for success

21 October 2010

Microsoft releases major update to Windows HPC Server

29 September 2010

Europe under-investing in HPC according to EU Commission-funded report

16 August 2010

China makes mark on Top500

14 June 2010

Digging into data in new ways

14 June 2010

The hidden depth of Microsoft's Technical Computing Initiative

2 June 2010

EGI promises abundant computing power for all

7 April 2010

HPC to bounce back in 2010

22 February 2010

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