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NEC's High Performance Computing Group helped by Promise Technology

12 March 2010
NEC's High Performance Computing Group (HPCE) is being helped by Promise Technology's RAID systems to supplement its parallel file system, LXFS. Initial installations have already been deployed in universities, a science centre and an automotive R&D department

APPLICATIONS

Michelin uses visualisation to develop tyre range

3 March 2010
Michelin has developed dedicated tyre analysis software solutions using Open Inventor from VSG

HPC

Cray to work with Microsoft Research on cloud computing

3 March 2010

HPC

T-Platforms expands into Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan

2 March 2010

INDUSTRY

Thermo Fisher expands global alliance

2 March 2010

HPC

Tech-X appoints Chinese reseller

2 March 2010

APPLICATIONS

Volvo enhances crash simulation capability

24 February 2010

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News features

HPC to bounce back in 2010

22 February 2010
When will the HPC market recover from the economic downturn? Which are the hot segments that will drive growth? Which are the most promising technologies? Paul Schreier hears the predictions of market research company IDC

Jaguar replaces Roadrunner as world's most powerful supercomputer

1 December 2009
The latest Top500 list, the 500 most powerful commercially available computing systems, has been published at SC09. Scientific Computing World reports on some of the supercomputers that made the list

HPC User Forum discusses problems with exascale computing

12 October 2009
Now operating in its 10th year, the HPC User Forum held Meeting No. 35 at the EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne) on 8-9 October, reports Paul Schreier