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InternetNews November 15, 2005 Clint Boulton |
Supercomputing With Microsoft Microsoft's new Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 is aimed at serving departments and work-groups. |
InternetNews November 24, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
Windows Ekes Out a Presence in Supercomputing Only five of the top 500 supercomputers in the world run Windows, but it's a start. Microsoft lays out its strategy for the high-performance computing market. |
InternetNews September 21, 2010 |
Microsoft Rolls Out High Performance Server New servers will deliver impressive compute power, particular for speeding Excel processing. |
Bio-IT World February 11, 2005 Salvatore Salamone |
Make Room for Microsoft High-performance computing: the 800-lb. Gorilla of desktop computing plans aggressive push into life science clusters. |
InternetNews September 15, 2005 Colin C. Haley |
Microsoft Aims at Cluster Computing Microsoft plans new software to compete against Linux offerings in a growing field. |
Bio-IT World Dec 2005/Jan 2006 Salvatore Salamone |
Supercomputing Show: Microsoft, HPC, and Top500 Microsoft's official entry into the high-performance computing (HPC) market and the release of the latest Top500 supercomputer list, confirming IBM's dominance in the field, were the headline makers at a recent supercomputing conference. |
InternetNews November 16, 2009 |
High Performance Windows Server Hits Beta Have you got spreadsheets that need a computer cluster to process? Your wish may be granted. |
InternetNews January 11, 2007 Clint Boulton |
SGI to Resell Microsoft Server Goods SGI has agreed to offer Microsoft's high-performance computing operating system on its cluster servers, a deal geared to boost both companies' sales in the HPC space. |
InternetNews November 17, 2005 David Needle |
Intel Developer Tools Target Clusters Intel released five software development tools for the creation of distributed applications used in high-performance computing clusters. |
Wall Street & Technology March 19, 2007 Penny Crosman |
The High-Speed Arms Race on Wall Street Is Leading Firms to Tap High-Performance Computing Citigroup, Wachovia, Mellon and other major Wall Street firms seeking to take their high-performance computing grids to the next level are considering new products. |
Bio-IT World February 18, 2004 |
A Preventable Informatics Crime If informatics computing on loosely coupled dedicated servers (clusters or compute farms) is such an attractive solution, why are life science IT shops still blowing big bucks on refrigerator-look-alike symmetric multiprocessor machines? |
Bio-IT World July 11, 2002 Judith N. Mottl |
Learning to Love Linux Hungry for computing power, life science companies are turning toward Linux clusters as the preferred high performance solution. |
InternetNews September 22, 2009 |
Microsoft Buys 'Supercomputing for the Desktop' Microsoft quietly announced Tuesday that it has bought the technology assets of Interactive Supercomputing (ISC) to beef up its efforts in high performance computing. |
InternetNews October 3, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner |
Red Hat Takes on HPC Market, Microsoft With Linux already dominating the HPC space, Red Hat thinks something is still missing. |
InternetNews August 24, 2009 |
Platform Computing in HPC Play With HP's Help Purchase of HP's MPI (Message Passing Interface) technology will advance Platform Computing's high performance computing push. |
Bio-IT World Dec 2006/Jan 2007 Salvatore Salamone |
IBM Tops Supercomputing Top 500 List The IBM Blue Gene/L system retained the premier spot in the latest edition of the Top 500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers. But perhaps the trend that labs should be seizing upon is the rapid adoption of multi-core processors for high performance computing. |
InternetNews February 20, 2004 Ron Miller |
Pentagon Clusters Around Linux DoD purchases largest cluster ever from Linux Networx to equip research centers. |
InternetNews June 23, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
Microsoft High on Performance Microsoft will be joining the supercomputer game when it serves up Windows Server 2003, high-performance edition. |
InternetNews April 18, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
High-Performance Computing Getting Higher A new IDC study shows high-performance server growth is up by 30 percent. |
Bio-IT World March 17, 2004 |
High-Performance Computing Life science companies are solving big problems with home-grown clusters, racks of blades, and gangs of PCs working overtime. |
Bio-IT World November 2005 Michael Athanas |
A New Window on HPC Clusters In recent years, scalable clusters have become commodity and are often encapsulated as single items in vendor catalogs to be issued as part of the greater data center solution. |
InternetNews July 19, 2005 Clint Boulton |
DoD Aims HP Supercomputer at Weapons Research The U.S. Department of Defense tabs Hewlett-Packard as its go-to systems vendor for a new cluster to study how to build new weapons. |
InternetNews August 5, 2009 |
Cluster Resources Expands Beyond HPC Cluster Resources has announced it's expanding its Moab unified intelligent automation middleware technology into the datacenter. |
InternetNews November 20, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
Dell, nVidia Make Their Presence Known in HPC Two companies not normally associated with high performance computing emerge as players at the annual supercomputing show. |
IndustryWeek December 1, 2006 Jonathan Katz |
Virtual Design: Simulated Crash Test Dummies High-performance computing systems improve modeling efficiency for automakers. |
InternetNews September 18, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
Cray Launches a 'Consumer' Supercomputer The high performance computer is the size of a small refrigerator and packs nearly a teraflop of computing power. Best of all, it won't cost seven - or even six - figures. |
InternetNews January 7, 2004 Michael Singer |
Grid Software, Now With The Mac Touch Apple Computer issues a beta of its new Xgrid software to make waves in HPC circles. |
InternetNews August 12, 2004 Clint Boulton |
Sun Goes Nuclear with New Cluster Department of Energy tosses Sun Microsystems a roughly $2M contract to power lab in Idaho. |
Bio-IT World September 16, 2004 Michael Athanas |
From the PC to the PCC Personal compute clusters enable bioinformatics researchers to compute outside the total control of the data center. |
Linux Journal May 1, 2002 Glen Otero |
The Beowulf State of Mind Beowulf has grown into the poster child for open-source, clustered computing. The Beowulf concept is all about using standard vanilla boxes and open-source software to cluster a group of computers together into a virtual supercomputer... |
Bio-IT World June 2005 John Russell |
India Genomics Institute Chooses HP Supercomputer The Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB) has chosen a 4-teraFLOPS Hewlett-Packard supercomputer running the Linux operating system to advance its life science computational biology research. |
Wall Street & Technology May 15, 2006 Paul Allen |
Banks Take Their Places on the Grid As new alternative investment products are added to the mix, and portfolio managers and risk managers strive to get an accurate view of a fund's value and associated risk, systems are being stretched to the limit of their computing power. |
Bio-IT World December 15, 2004 Salvatore Salamone |
IBM, SGI Earn Top Bragging Rights at SC2004 Conference BlueGene/L and Altix 1.5GHz, Infiniband place first and second respectively on the Top 500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers. However, bioscience problems remain. |
Bio-IT World February 11, 2005 Salvatore Salamone |
Strategic Insights: No Researcher Left Behind Many open-source and commercial diagnostic tools can probe a cluster's performance, but virtually all of these tools are designed for use by the experienced software developer. Now, a new crop of user-friendly cluster productivity tools targets the scientist/engineer. |
InternetNews August 30, 2004 Michael Singer |
Orion Debuts Cluster Workstation The new company comes out of stealth mode with a family of business workstations that think like a cluster of servers. |
Bio-IT World June 12, 2002 Debra Goldfarb |
Biology: Antidote for HPC Blues The high-performance computing (HPC) market is unlike any other. Although it is a small, niche market, its influence is powerful and pervasive. Will bio-IT catalyze a revival in advanced computer architectures? |
Linux Journal October 12, 2004 Don Marti |
From the Editor: November 2004 -- Got a Linux Server? Thank a Beowulf. Early Linux clusters were labor-intensive, with "crash carts" including keyboard and monitor for BIOS access. Today, LinuxBIOS makes the pit crew's work feasible for more and more machines per administrator. |
CIO April 1, 2003 John Edwards |
Gathering in Clusters Lower costs and improved performance spur growing interest in clustering. |
InternetNews January 21, 2004 Clint Boulton |
InfiniBand Firms Eye High-Performance Computing InfiniCon and Voltaire issue InfiniBand announcements that show traction in the high-performance computing arena. |
Linux Journal August 1, 2007 James Gray |
The Best Game in Town Terra Soft's CEO Kai Staats talks about the building of the world's first supercomputing cluster using the Sony PlayStation 3, which utilizes the IBM Cell Broadband Engine and the Linux operating system. |
InternetNews February 2, 2010 |
Air Force Taps PS3s for Low-Cost Supercomputer The end result of using off-the-shelf hardware could be one of the fastest supercomputers in the world - and at a fraction of rivals' prices and energy costs. |
Bio-IT World February 11, 2005 Michael Athanas |
When Is it Smarter to Rent? Does it make sense to rent CPU hours instead of acquiring computers? Why haven't life science research groups been drawn to collocation (purchasing access to computing resources located elsewhere)? |
Bio-IT World Dec 2005/Jan 2006 Chris Dwan |
Interfaces Will Save the World Bioinformatics has passed the level of complexity at which any one individual can understand the entire stack of skills required in its practice. Well-defined interfaces can also help to span the chasm between the IT and research worlds. |
InternetNews November 17, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
AMD, HP Nab Wins in Supercomputer Rankings While AMD gets the top spots and HP surpasses IBM as the largest hardware provider, Intel continues to dominate the latest TOP500 list. |
Bio-IT World September 2006 Salvatore Salamone |
Apple's Leopard Raises OS Ante Most of the details about Apple's Leopard OS will not come out until the fall. But from the current information, at least two new features of the operating system should be of interest to life science IT professionals and researchers involved with high-performance computing (HPC). |
InternetNews November 25, 2009 |
Europe Jumps Into HPC Fray With Aurora A company known for wearable PCs comes out with its own supercomputer design. What does it have that IBM and HP doesn't? |
InternetNews September 18, 2006 Clint Boulton |
Multicore on Steroids? This Startup Hopes So PeakStream emerged from stealth mode today, unveiling a new breed of software development platform to help high-performance computing applications run better on multi-core chips and graphics processors. |
InternetNews November 12, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Sun Fires Up Supercomputer Cluster Quad-core Opterons in hand, Sun has begun building a 521 teraflop supercomputer cluster. |
Linux Journal December 2000 Glen Otero |
Book Review Building Linux Clusters by David H. M. Spector |
InternetNews April 27, 2004 Paul Shread |
IDC Sees Big Opportunity for Grid Computing The grid computing market is 'on the verge of major expansion,' according to a new IDC report. |