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Nvidia to link Telsa graphics processors with the cloud

Nvidia have announced technologies that could make its upcoming Tesla graphics processors more accessible to cloud deployments in enterprises, while also reversing a trend of relegating highly parallel chips to specialised mathematics and scientific calculations.
EU-funded open source cloud toolkit to arrive in June

The European Union is funding the launch of a new open source toolkit, designed to help European service providers build and run applications in the cloud.
Amazon CTO: startups lead the way in Big Data analytics

Startups and small companies are stealing a march on some of their larger enterprise counterparts in their use of Big Data by employing analytics at the heart of their businesses, according to Amazon Web Services.
HPC Wales to offer Fujitsu-sponsored PhD studentships

Fujitsu is sponsoring seven PhD studentships in computational science to be undertaken in Welsh universities, as part of a new supercomputing-based research collaboration with HPC Wales.
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.
UK university consortium gets £3.7m for HPC innovation centre

The universities of Southampton, Bristol, Oxford and University College London have joined forces with the e-Science Centre at Rutherford Appleton Laboratories, to form a new Centre of Innovation for the application of High Performance Computing.
Amazon hails era of 'utility supercomputing'

Cloud computing giant Amazon Web Services is heralding the era of utility supercomputing, whereby massive computational resources and storage requirements can be accessed on demand.
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.
Apache HTTP Server version 2.4 released by open source foundation

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has celebrated the 17th anniversary of the release of the Apache HTTP Server by launching a new version of the popular open source web server software.
Intel ponders solar-powered CPU tech in graphics, memory

Intel's experimental solar-powered processor may have started off as a fun project, but the chip maker is now looking to extend the technology to hardware such as graphics processors, memory and floating point units.

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Is quantum computing real?

Researchers have been working on quantum systems for more than a decade, in the hopes of developing super-tiny, super-powerful computers. And while there is still plenty of excitement surrounding quantum computing, significant roadblocks are causing some to question whether quantum computing will ever make it out of the lab.
China breaks ground on futuristic supercomputer complex

China has unveiled a sleek, ultra modern-appearing design for its new supercomputing centre that may be seen as reflecting the country's broader supercomputing ambitions.
Turn unused desktop cycles into fast server clusters

When you consider technologies that make corporate IT more efficient by improving use of computing resources, VMware and its x86 virtualisation software may be what that comes to mind.
HPC experts look past petaflop to the exascale

High-performance computing researchers consider the billion-dollar investment required to usher in the exascale era.
IBM makes the mainframe young again

IBM recently announced its sixth annual Master the Mainframe Contest for high school, college and university students across the United States and Canada. The contest is designed to get the younger set away from their iPhones and Droids and get involved with some serious mainframe applications.
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.
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?
The case for solid-state drives in the data centre

Some storage analysts are forecasting eventual SSD datacentre penetration. Supercomputing labs are finding SSDs can solve hard disk drive data access problems.

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