http://www.hpcwire.com/news RSS Feed for Top Headlines en-us Thu, 15 May 2008 15:49:59 GMT 2008-05-15T15:49:59Z en-us http://www.hpcwire.com/news/Parallel_Processing_Calls_for_a_Fortress_Mentality.html Sun Microsystems is taking the lessons learned from Java and applying them to the application development challenges of the high performance computing realm. Thu, 15 May 2008 15:49:59 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/news/Parallel_Processing_Calls_for_a_Fortress_Mentality.html 2008-05-15T15:49:59Z http://www.hpcwire.com/news/IBM_Set_to_Test_the_Fastest_Computer_in_the_World.html IBM is assembling the final pieces of what they hope will soon become the world's most powerful supercomputer. Wed, 14 May 2008 15:59:24 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/news/IBM_Set_to_Test_the_Fastest_Computer_in_the_World.html 2008-05-14T15:59:24Z http://www.hpcwire.com/news/IBM_Shifts_Cell_to_65_nanometers.html IBM Corp. has announced the next-generation version of its Cell processor, the first specifically geared for computer servers. Tue, 13 May 2008 16:50:57 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/news/IBM_Shifts_Cell_to_65_nanometers.html 2008-05-13T16:50:57Z http://www.hpcwire.com/news/Record-Setting_Simulations_on_Ranger_Reconstruct_the_Reionization_Era.html In the coming months, Dr. Michael L. Norman of UCSD will use Ranger, the world's most powerful supercomputer for open-science research, to perform the largest cosmological simulation to date. Tue, 13 May 2008 16:37:51 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/news/Record-Setting_Simulations_on_Ranger_Reconstruct_the_Reionization_Era.html 2008-05-13T16:37:51Z http://www.hpcwire.com/news/2_AMD_executives_Out_in_Restructuring_Amid_Slump.html Two executives have left AMD, including the head of the slumping chip maker's microprocessor division, as the company tries to engineer a dramatic turnaround to fend off larger rival Intel Corp. Tue, 13 May 2008 16:06:50 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/news/2_AMD_executives_Out_in_Restructuring_Amid_Slump.html 2008-05-13T16:06:50Z http://www.hpcwire.com/news/Mellanox_on_InfiniBand_and_FCoE.html Blocks and Files talked with Thad Omura, VP for product marketing at Mellanox, and asked him a set of questions about InfiniBand, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and datacenter Ethernet. Mon, 12 May 2008 21:49:45 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/news/Mellanox_on_InfiniBand_and_FCoE.html 2008-05-12T21:49:45Z http://www.hpcwire.com/news/Water-cooled_Servers_Gaining_Steam.html As high-end computing systems become larger and hotter, datacenter operators and server vendors are increasingly turning to water cooling as a practical way to reduce energy costs. Mon, 12 May 2008 22:22:51 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/news/Water-cooled_Servers_Gaining_Steam.html 2008-05-12T22:22:51Z http://www.hpcwire.com/news/AMD_Discloses_12-Core_Server_Chip.html AMD presented their road map for 45nm server processors using six and twelve cores through 2010. Wed, 07 May 2008 23:01:34 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/news/AMD_Discloses_12-Core_Server_Chip.html 2008-05-07T23:01:34Z http://www.hpcwire.com/news/A_Discount-To-Cash_Punt_For_Dragons_Den.html Writing for The Motley Fool, Maynard Patton wonders what's going on at ClearSpeed Technology. Company chairman and investor Richard Farleigh (of Dragons' Den fame) recently spent £50,000 to increase his stake to 14 percent. Wed, 07 May 2008 16:23:01 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/news/A_Discount-To-Cash_Punt_For_Dragons_Den.html 2008-05-07T16:23:01Z http://www.hpcwire.com/news/Berkeley_Lab_Researchers_Propose_a_New_Breed_of_Supercomputers.html Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have proposed an innovative way to improve global climate change predictions by using a supercomputer with low-power embedded microprocessors. Wed, 07 May 2008 15:47:24 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/news/Berkeley_Lab_Researchers_Propose_a_New_Breed_of_Supercomputers.html 2008-05-07T15:47:24Z