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Intel acquires HPC interconnect assets from Cray

Intel has agreed to buy specific high-performance-computing interconnect assets from server company Cray, the chip maker said on Tuesday.
Science and Technology Facilities Council to get virtual reality systems

The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is diving head-first into the virtual realm, with the installation of a number of advanced visualisation systems at its Daresbury and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory facilities.
Intel plans 'superchip' for HPC programme

Intel is investing in the development of a "superchip" for HPC systems that the company hopes will raise its supercomputing profile.
Titan supercomputer could be world's fastest HPC

The Titan supercomputer will be deployed by a US government research lab later this this that could be a contender for the top spot on the list of the world's faster supercomputers.
AMD buys SeaMicro and enters server hardware business

AMD announced yesterday it is buying low-power server vendor SeaMicro, a move that puts AMD in the systems business and disrupts Intel by acquiring one of its close partners.
Supercomputing specialist Cray targets enterprise big data

Supercomputer company Cray has created a new division that will sell big data systems, the company has announced. The division will market its offerings to large enterprises, which will be a new kind of client for the company.
US department of energy to cool exascale HPC with local weather

In a picturesque spot overlooking San Francisco Bay, the US Department of Energy's Berkeley Lab has begun building a new computing centre that will one day house exascale systems.
AMD calls end to core growth on server chips

Advanced Micro Devices has put the brakes on adding more cores to its server chips, stopping at 16, the company said Thursday during a financial analyst day.
Intel buying Qlogic InfiniBand to aid exaflop HPC programmes

Intel announced yesterday that it had agreed to buy parts of Qlogic's InfiniBand business as the chip maker looks to provide storage and server bandwidth that will allow systems to achieve exaflop computing.
JP Morgan expands deployment of FPGA-based supercomputer

JP Morgan is expanding its use of supercomputers to speed up more of its fixed income trading operations.

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Are we actively encouraging destructive hacking?

People seem to think that organising teams of people to hack into systems is a way to bring together the best computer talent to square off against each other. I look at it as a waste of that talent.
Oracle to continue supporting Lustre

While a number of small companies have been ramping up support for a file system called Lustre that Oracle acquired in its Sun Microsystems purchase earlier this year, Oracle itself has no plans to abandon the technology, a company executive told the IDG News Service in an interview.
HPC experts look past petaflop to the exascale

High-performance computing researchers consider the billion-dollar investment required to usher in the exascale era.
China challenges US for supercomputing dominance

China and other nations are beginning to challenge US supercomputing leadership, something that has implications for every aspect of US leadership in science and product development, say experts.
Supercomputing in the cloud ready for take off

Some companies are slashing costs and improving production by using on-demand high-performance computing services.
Five reasons China will take world tech leadership

China's focus on science and technology is relentless, and it's occurring at all levels of its society. Its labour pool is becoming increasingly sophisticated, its leadership is focused on innovation, and the country is adopting policies designed to pressure US firms to transfer their technology.
How virtual servers make the cloud more elastic

Q&A: The founder of ScaleMP explains the differences between scaling out and scaling up with virtualisation in the cloud.
Intel Larrabee was a casualty of Intel's legal battles

Intel announced that its initial foray into standalone graphics chips - the Larrabee Project - is delayed indefinitely. Intel cited developmental setbacks, but it's hard not to connect the dots between the demise of the Larrabee Project and Intel's ongoing legal woes.
Why Apple's Wozniak loves flash storage drives

Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak accepted a position as chief scientist at solid state drive company Fusion-io earlier this year. Wozniak says he took the job because the company is so much like Apple was in its early days and he sees a huge market for solid state storage on PCIe cards.
Calculate this ? up close to the UK?s newest supercomputer

The UK's most powerful supercomputer is called HECToR, and it stands at number 17 in the world rankings. But what's it for?

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