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The future of PCIe: Get small, speed up, think outside the box

IDF13 Plans range from smartphone storage to InfiniBand competitor in HPC
Rik Myslewski, 13 Sep 23:02

IBM forges NextScale servers for HPC and hyperscale cheapskates

IDF13 As vanity free as Big Blue can get with server clusters

Wanna boost app speed? Think of the server, and tune 'er to NUMA

HPC on Wall Street And maybe chuck in some flash-based DIMMs, too

Fujitsu to push 28 nanometer limits with Sparc64 X+

Hot Chips Drop-in upgrade sports more oomph for Solaris shops

Intel bakes super-snooper to stop industrial espionage

Hadoop-based tool sniffs 4bn network events a day, may end up as McAfee product
Simon Sharwood, 21 Aug 06:04

Intel adds Lustre support to Hadoop

Chipzilla hopes HPC owners get busy with map reduce in their spare time
Simon Sharwood, 21 Aug 02:04

VLSCI fires up 20 teraflop Barcoo

New super is also a Xeon test bed
Richard Chirgwin, 20 Aug 03:42

Cray posts modest loss, awaits Q4 revenue wave

Technical issue with 'Titan' super – now fixed – eats into profits

Nvidia buys Portland Group for compiler smarts

C++ and Fortran to span ARM and GPU ceepie geepies

Bugs in beta weather model used to trash climate science

Shock revelation: devs test complex code on more than one super
Richard Chirgwin, 29 Jul 05:44
a 42-node cluster of Parallella-16 boards from Adapteva

Adapteva ships Kickstarted baby supercomputer boards

Forget GPUs – use ARMs plus FPGAs plus Epiphany RISCies
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Square kilometre array data heading for AWS cloud

New Oz supers vaporising fast, in a good way
Richard Chirgwin, 23 Jul 05:28
lotus F1 team, car front view

How do you drive a supercomputer round a Formula 1 track?

Lotus F1 team gives El Reg a sneak peek into its pits
Joe Fay, 22 Jul 12:03

Opinion

German students get hot 'n' heavy on Coffee Table of Doom

HPC blog Unassuming sideboard plumbs entire server for liquid cooling
China HPC

Chinese students put feet up after intensive rack-thrashing session

HPC blog Team China confident on final day of student cluster romp

Sweaty European youngsters get to grips with ‘coffee table of doom’

HPC blog It's the last day of the students' high-performance cluster battle

2 Chinese teams. 1 unbeaten. Cluster wrestlers, be warned

HPC blog Tsinghua and Huazong join the international high performance cluster match
Dan Olds, 25 Jun 17:07

News

German students get hot 'n' heavy on Coffee Table of Doom

HPC blog Unassuming sideboard plumbs entire server for liquid cooling

Will Jocks strap on beefy ARMs to grapple rival racks next year?

Video Headlines to which the answer is no? Think again, popeye

Explicit shots: China's gorgeous flop-tastic Tianhe-2 supercomputer

Pics The Sky River sequel has Intel – and a whole lot of noodles – Inside

ISC Student Cluster Competition: The kids are alright

HPC Blog Record number of LINs packed in Leipzig

Kluster Kamph results sliced, diced, pulverized

HPC Blog Who won – and, more importantly, why?

South African kids win global cluster glory at HPC fest

HPC blog App-cracking first-timers take the trophy

Chinese students put feet up after intensive rack-thrashing session

HPC blog Team China confident on final day of student cluster romp

American kids leave HPC smackdown hungry for Phi

HPC blog But Europe, dude, what gives? Why can't we have any ice?

Supercomputer efficiency jumps, but nowhere near exascale needs

Ceepie-geepies blow past BlueGene/Q in Green500 rankings

Sweaty European youngsters get to grips with ‘coffee table of doom’

HPC blog It's the last day of the students' high-performance cluster battle

2 Chinese teams. 1 unbeaten. Cluster wrestlers, be warned

HPC blog Tsinghua and Huazong join the international high performance cluster match
Dan Olds, 25 Jun 17:07

Rainforest Eagles 2.0 and African cluster boffins head to Europe for app WAR

HPC blog Scary beastie'll scare the pants off you - once we know its name
Dan Olds, 25 Jun 14:27

US cluster kids bring noisy gear, 'fun' toys to World War HPC

HPC blog Colorado and Purdue put pedal to the metal
Dan Olds, 25 Jun 13:08

Edinburgh students' heaving racks: UK's only hope for cluster-wrestling glory

HPC blog Chemnitz rounds out Euro cluster squad defending the Continent
Dan Olds, 25 Jun 09:36

Euro students cluster fest: Configurations LAID BARE

HPC blog Universities spark Kepler vs Phi Face-Off
Dan Olds, 24 Jun 22:23
What the Tianhe-2 super should look like in its final home

HPC geeks ponder 100 petafloppers and quantum supercomputers

ISC 2013 Crowdsourcing prognostications for fun and profit prophet
The Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge

What should replace Linpack for ranking supercomputers?

ISC 2013 Our Big Iron man has a few ideas following Top500
Raijin at the NCI

New super maxed out on first day of operations

Sometimes 57,472 Sandy Bridge cores and 160 TB of memory aren't enough
Richard Chirgwin, 21 Jun 02:03

Supercomputer sage Cray musters Lustre cluster storage hustler

Bold move - HPC legend starts standalone storage biz
ASKAP from the air

Swinburne starts design of pulsar-hunting supercomputer

Australian Uni plans LGM hunt with FPGAs
Richard Chirgwin, 17 Jun 21:10
Die shot of the 62-core Xeon Phi coprocessor chip

Intel previews future 'Knights Landing' Xeon Phi x86 coprocessor with integrated memory

ISC 2013 It can swing both ways: multicore CPU or offload engine
Die shot of the 62-core Xeon Phi coprocessor chip

Intel widens Xeon Phi HPC coprocessor lineup

ISC 2013 We are family – and spoiling for a feud with Nvidia Teslas