Japan's K Computer passes 8 petaflop barrier, but also sets new power consumption record. The Chinese Tianhe-1A supercomputer, took the number one position last November with a performance of 2.57 petaflops
The new 7,680-core system was built to help researchers from across the country in areas such as climate modeling, physics, and cosmology. Plus, where Canada stands in the HPC space
Multi-million dollar supercomputers take up most of the headlines, but many organizations are now considering the addition of smaller, personal supercomputers to their desktop fleet. Despite some strong global sales, find out why the idea still hasn
A medical researcher studying the structure and interaction of proteins found the resulting diagrams resembled a huge black hairball. IBM came to the rescue with a machine that does 12 teraflops
Microsoft Inc.'s forays into high-performance computing (HPC), with its roll out of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 earlier this month, is unlikely to affect Linux's pre-eminence in this space, a Canadian analyst says.