Whether the application is floating-point intensive, integer based, uses a lot of memory, has significant I/O requirements, or its widespread use is limited by purchased licenses, a system that ...

The precise point of departure in the history of almost anything of significance – of a country, a company or a technology – is usually imperceptible. A new chapter in the continually evolving HPC ...

As part of cthe 50th anniversary celebrations for the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), “In Their Own Words” is a Q&A series featuring voices from across the NERSC ...

File systems have never been the flashiest segment of the IT space, which might explain why big shakeups and new entrants into the market don’t draw the attention they could. Established vendors have ...

Sun has updated its Constellation System for high-performance computing, covering software, networking and storage. On Tuesday, the company announced a new quad data rate (QDR) switch, new cluster ...

Microsoft today released an updated version of its Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 that can tap into compute resources throughout an enterprise as well as a cloud computing system. The company is hoping ...

A quest to help the systems software community work on very large supercomputers without having to actually test on them has spawned an affordable, scalable system using thousands of inexpensive ...

The annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis – SC16 – started up over the weekend. Participants simply call it “SC” or the “supercomputing ...

The Lustre file system, which is popular in high-performance computing, is finally in the hands of a company that makes sense: enterprise storage company DataDirect Networks. After years of bouncing ...