High Performance Computing News

Nvidia to sponsor Stanford parallel computing lab

6 May 2008
Nvidia is a founding member of Stanford University’s new Pervasive Parallelism Lab (PPL).

£7 million supercomputer facility opens

6 May 2008
The University of Bristol has opened the BlueCrystal supercomputer facility, which will aid research in areas such as climate change, drug design and aerospace engineering.

Cray and Intel team up for future supercomputing tech

2 May 2008
Cray and Intel has signed a multi-year agreement to advance high-performance computing on Intel processors while delivering new Intel and Cray technologies in future Cray server systems.

Oxford scientists get £3m supercomputing boost

21 April 2008
Oxford Supercomputing Centre (OSC) has opened a £3m facility to provide university researchers with access to three new High Performance Computing systems.

Pay-per-use supercomputing for the masses

14 April 2008
Interactive Supercomputing (ISC) has launched a high performance computing (HPC) software service for engineers, scientists and analysts who have technical computing applications that will benefit from parallel processing, but don’t have access to high performance, multiprocessor hardware.