The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NSCA) is to retire the iForge high-performance computing (HPC) system. Founded in 1986 and part of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, ...

Scientists and researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are constantly innovating, integrating novel technologies, and "walking the talk." Since 1982, ...

All of the major HPC centers of the world, whether they are funded by straight science or nuclear weapons management, have enough need and enough money to have two classes of supercomputers. They have ...

One of the more significant efforts in Europe to address the challenges of the convergence of high performance computing (HPC), high performance data analytics (HPDA) and soon artificial intelligence ...

Oil and gas giant Total has selected the SGI’s ICE X high performance computing (HPC) system as the platform for its new supercomputer named Pangea, which will be one of the largest commercial HPC ...

Sun has updated its Constellation System for high-performance computing, covering software, networking and storage. On Tuesday, the company announced a new quad data rate (QDR) switch, new cluster ...

The Lustre file system, which is popular in high-performance computing, is finally in the hands of a company that makes sense: enterprise storage company DataDirect Networks. After years of bouncing ...

Microsoft today released an updated version of its Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 that can tap into compute resources throughout an enterprise as well as a cloud computing system. The company is hoping ...