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Solarflare turns network adapters into servers

When a CPU just isn't fast enough

8 Feb 21:51

Cray puts super stake in the big data ground

Crunch this

8 Feb 16:37

SGI to restructure (again) after fiscal Q2 loss

Blame Europe, Xeon E5 product transitions

8 Feb 01:30

Cray shrinks XE6m supers down to a rack

So long CX1000 Xeon-InfiniBand baby clusters

2 Feb 00:55

Mellanox shrugs off Intel's InfiniBand buy

Turns in good Q4, will grow in 2012 despite price cuts

26 Jan 20:37

Red Hat juices speed freak MRG Linux

Shadowman gets the message

26 Jan 01:05

Intel upsets apple cart, snaps up QLogic's InfiniBand biz

Time for AMD to eat Mellanox

23 Jan 17:47

Sikorsky plays killer copter sim on SGI Altix UV 1000

Stephen Hawking sticks with Altix iron, as well

19 Jan 20:28

Holographic storage's corpse twitches

Storex sniffs cash, but InPhase out of luck

19 Jan 13:19

SGI books $90m in ICE X super orders

Exiting CEO stays on board of directors

11 Jan 17:57

Mellanox VMA 6.0 juices high freaky trading

Making Linux sit up and make money

9 Jan 22:59

Fusion-io demos billion IOPS server config

Previews software with serious grunt

6 Jan 06:28

Cray's Q4 whacked by AMD's Opteron delays

Déjà vu all over again

5 Jan 15:44

ALIEN ARTIFACTS can best be FOUND ON MOON

Boffins advocate volunteer @home trawl of NASA's lunar pix

29 Dec 12:49

Moscow State taps T-Platforms to build 10 petaflops super

A ceepie-geepie once again

22 Dec 22:13

New chippery on parade at ISSCC

CPU and memory makers strut their stuff

22 Dec 16:02

Petaflops beater: Nvidia chief talks exascale

Programming for parallel processes

22 Dec 13:04

'Flash Gordon' supercomputer powers up in January

Solid-state 'science ship' casts anchor in San Diego

15 Dec 08:02

Blighty promised £43m prang-predicting supercomputer

Science minister pledges £158m to boost Brit boffins' IT

5 Dec 08:01

Big Blue prototypes software for big, big data

Coping with the astronomy info-glut

4 Dec 21:31

Quantum computing comes closer as diamonds get spooky

Boffins 'entangle' synthi-gems at room temperature

2 Dec 12:40

Supercomputer helps boffins crack 3D material sims...

SC11 Tokyo Tech nabs Gordon Bell Prize and $10k for metal materials work

2 Dec 11:00

Cray notches another XE6-Cascades super deal

Dancing the Japanese two-step

29 Nov 22:49

TI throws DSPs at supercomputers

Seeing if they will stick, like GPU coprocessors

28 Nov 17:15

Fujitsu parades 16-core Sparc64 super stunner

SC11 Top of the FLOPS

21 Nov 14:01

CSIRO opens tender for Pawsey petascale powerhouse

Vendors to beat a path to Perth

21 Nov 00:01

Supercomputer Watson too thick to use Siri

We're still smarter than computers, phew

17 Nov 15:43

Amazon gooses HPC cloud with Xeon E5s

SC11 Passes the Linpack speed test

16 Nov 23:25

IBM pushes BlueGene/Q to 100 petaflops

SC11 Weather boffins buy Power 775 super nodes

16 Nov 21:57

Hot Intel teraflops MIC coprocessor action in a hotel

SC11 Sweet nothings whispered about Xeon E5 performance

16 Nov 02:04

Nvidia: An unintended exascale-super innovator

SC11 CEO just wanted to play 3D video games

15 Nov 20:33

NetApp adds Lustre to Big Data line-up

SC11 Benchmark bonanza

15 Nov 00:18

Spaniards prototype ARM-GPU hybrid supercomputer

SC11 Ubuntu Linux spans Tegra3-Fermi mashup

14 Nov 21:22

SGI to put Intel's Xeon E5s in ICE X systems

SC11 Opteron 6200s put on ice

14 Nov 14:29

Top 500 Supers: Détente in East, West petaflops race

SC11 An arsenal of big iron deploying soon

14 Nov 14:02

Cray lands $188m Blue Waters NCSA contract

SC11 Breaking 10 petaflops with Opteron-GPU tag team

14 Nov 08:05

Hadoop: Making Linux gobble big data

Hadoop World Growing penguins need petabytes to feast on

9 Nov 10:11

Intel stretches HPC dev tools across chubby clusters

SC11 Cluster Studio XE ready for MICs, not for GPUs

8 Nov 18:21

Fujitsu readies 23 petaflops Sparc FX10 super beast

16-core Sparc64-IXfx chip on deck

7 Nov 17:46

Ex-IBM CEO John Opel dies aged 86

Obit Ended up managing a much bigger hardware store

7 Nov 10:02

AMD pins exascale vision on Fusion APUs

The rebirth of vector processing

2 Nov 21:19

Appro goes to extremes with new Xtreme-X supers

Machines? Check. GPUs? Check. New x86 CPUs? Er ... soon.

2 Nov 16:23

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SC11 NVIDIA: 'Yup, we're on it'

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