SGI ICE Supercomputer and Advanced Manufacturing
Due to its cost and complexity, high performance computing (HPC) historically has been restricted to the big guys – government labs, the military, large corporations, and well-heeled academic...
View ArticleSGI Introduces UV 2 Supercomputer: A Machine for the Missing Middle?
SGI’s newest supercomputer, the UV 2, has the potential to bring more members of the “missing middle” into the digital manufacturing fold. The missing middle refers to those 350,000 small to medium...
View ArticleNASA Teams up with TACC to Simulate Space Junk
While debris might seem innocuous enough to those grounded on Earth, even pebble-sized junk in orbit poses a serious problem. While you may imagine abandoned screws and bolts floating serenely past the...
View ArticleSGI Supercomputer Upgrade to Boost Total Exploration in 2016
Energy giant Total will use its recently announced supercomputer upgrade to improve the productivity and efficiency of its seismic processing and reservoir simulation processes when the system goes...
View ArticleHPC for Advanced Analytics at the USPS
Steve Conway, Research Vice President, IDC’s High Performance Computing group Today, the United States Postal Service is on its third generation of supercomputers, with each generation more capable...
View ArticleGovernment Labs Give Enterprises a Supercomputing Boost
International conglomerates, tech startups, and SMBs can tap into the federal government’s investments in supercomputers and expertise through a series of programs operated by several of the nation’s...
View ArticleEx-Baidu Researcher Ren Wu Denies Wrongdoing
Dr. Ren Wu vigorously denies the charges of cheating that led Baidu to reportedly fire the head of its Heterogeneous Computing team after the Chinese search engine developer’s supercomputer team was...
View ArticleEnterprises Embrace Obama’s HPC Moon Shot
Could President Barack Obama’s executive order establishing the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) do for high performance computing what President John F. Kennedy’s proclamation about...
View ArticleAchieving High Performance Computing without the Supercomputer
When most hear the term “High-Performance Computing” or HPC, what often comes to mind is the image of well-funded research laboratories, think CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, where the sheer processing...
View ArticleCray Forecasts More Enterprise Contracts
Global supercomputer maker Cray’s recent deals with Danish and Swiss meteorological organizations further cemented its leadership in the weather business, but Cray predicts blue skies ahead for...
View ArticleNASA Teams up with TACC to Simulate Space Junk
While debris might seem innocuous enough to those grounded on Earth, even pebble-sized junk in orbit poses a serious problem. While you may imagine abandoned screws and bolts floating serenely past the...
View ArticleSGI Supercomputer Upgrade to Boost Total Exploration in 2016
Energy giant Total will use its recently announced supercomputer upgrade to improve the productivity and efficiency of its seismic processing and reservoir simulation processes when the system goes...
View ArticleHPC for Advanced Analytics at the USPS
Steve Conway, Research Vice President, IDC's High Performance Computing group Today, the United States Postal Service is on its third generation of supercomputers, with each generation more capable...
View ArticleGovernment Labs Give Enterprises a Supercomputing Boost
International conglomerates, tech startups, and SMBs can tap into the federal government's investments in supercomputers and expertise through a series of programs operated by several of the nation's...
View ArticleEx-Baidu Researcher Ren Wu Denies Wrongdoing
Dr. Ren Wu vigorously denies the charges of cheating that led Baidu to reportedly fire the head of its Heterogeneous Computing team after the Chinese search engine developer's supercomputer team was...
View ArticleEnterprises Embrace Obama’s HPC Moon Shot
Could President Barack Obama's executive order establishing the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) do for high performance computing what President John F. Kennedy's proclamation about...
View ArticleAchieving High Performance Computing without the Supercomputer
When most hear the term "High-Performance Computing" or HPC, what often comes to mind is the image of well-funded research laboratories, think CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, where the sheer processing...
View ArticleCray Forecasts More Enterprise Contracts
Global supercomputer maker Cray's recent deals with Danish and Swiss meteorological organizations further cemented its leadership in the weather business, but Cray predicts blue skies ahead for...
View ArticleMicrosoft Eyes AI Supercomputer on Azure
Microsoft is jumping on the artificial intelligence bandwagon with the formation of a new research group that will seek to make the technology more accessible via its Azure cloud while helping to...
View ArticlePGS Adds Second Cray Super to Houston Mega Center
“We’re gonna need a bigger supercomputer” is what Norwegian oil and gas company Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) must have said to Cray ahead of working with the iconic supercomputer maker to expand its...
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