Tag: supercomputer

PCs & Servers

IBM eyes brain-like computing

By Liz Tay | Oct 14, 2011 | Comment Now

Reveals research priorities ahead of Melbourne R&D centre launch.

Hardware

Defence seeks supercomputing cluster

By Liz Tay | Sep 8, 2011 | Comment Now

To spend $250,000 on engineering modelling machine.

Storage

Audit questions cost of Melbourne supercomputer

By Ry Crozier | Jun 16, 2011 | Comment Now

Auditor-General questions project's value for money.

Hardware

Murdoch supercomputer hangs out its shingle

By Liz Tay | Jun 9, 2011 | Comment Now

Researchers to apply for time on world's 87th fastest machine.

PCs & Servers

IBM's technological goliath: 10 quadrillion calculations a second

By Chris Jager | Feb 14, 2011 | Comment Now

While we marvel at Intel's Sandy Bridge PC performance, IBM has unveiled a technological goliath; a 10-petaflop IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer codenamed 'Mira' capable of ...

Communications

Amazon launches cluster computing cloud

By Liz Tay | Jul 15, 2010 | Comment Now

Supercomputing as a service for researchers, demanding business applications.

Hardware

Supercomputers to simulate life on earth

By Liz Tay | Jun 4, 2010 | Comment Now

Economic crises and conflict under the microscope.

Hardware

CSIRO to launch GPU-based supercomputer

By Brett Winterford | Nov 23, 2009 | 3 Comments

Uses GPU cluster to trump machines twice its size.

Storage

Australia's fastest supercomputer unveiled in Canberra

By Munir Kotadia | Nov 16, 2009 | Comment Now

1,200 percent more powerful than predecessor.

Strategy

Linux clusters give Monash Uni a budget supercomputer

By Munir Kotadia | Jul 31, 2009 | Comment Now

Considers leasing out supercomputer power.

Hardware

Australia holds one supercomputer in top 500

By Ry Crozier | Jun 25, 2009 | Comment Now

Germany emerges to challenge top mantle.

Hardware

AMD supercomputer drives HD content to mobiles

Jan 13, 2009 | Comment Now

AMD has teamed with content developer OTOY to build a supercomputer that will make it possible to port high-definition content wirelessly to mobile devices.

Hardware

IBM dominates Green500 supercomputer list

Jul 29, 2008 | Comment Now

IBM has once again dominated the Green500 list which ranks the world's supercomputers by performance-per-watt rather than pure processing power.

Hardware

Green500 v3 ranks supercomputer energy efficiency

Jul 19, 2008 | Comment Now

IBM’s BladeCenter QS22 Cluster and the one-year-old Blue Gene/P have topped the latest edition of the Green500 List of the most energy-efficient supercomputers.

Hardware

Thunderbird Linux supercomputer hits 53 teraflops

By Robert Jaques | Nov 17, 2006 | Comment Now

Linux cluster ranked sixth in Top 500 supercomputer ranking.

Hardware

Microsoft aims to enter supercomputer market

Nov 17, 2005 | Comment Now

Microsoft, which built its business by aiming to put a "computer on every desk", is moving into the high-end supercomputing market as hardware becomes more affordable.

Hardware

SGI touts supercomputer for Japan with monster memory

Nov 5, 2004 | Comment Now

Silicon Graphics (SGI) said a customer in Japan will soon introduce an SGI Altix supercomputer based on 2048 Intel Itanium 2 processors that will have more than 13 terabytes of ...