HPC

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have increased their capacity for cosmological simulation by opening up a link to another research centre - the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UI).

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced $17.7 million in funding for 12 Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science (TRIPODS) projects, which will bring together the statistics, mathematics, and theoretical computer science communities to develop the foundations of data science

The computing giant Microsoft has announced the acquisition of Cycle Computing to strengthen the company’s HPC and big data cloud infrastructure

The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) played a critical role in helping researchers discover new insights in the growth of the universe from its infancy to present day

Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas has launched a new supercomputer - Stampede2 - with help from a $30 million award from the US National Science Foundation (NSF)

UK government has contracted project management firm, Amec Foster Wheeler, to lead a £2.9 million nuclear research program.

Initial results of the Scientific Computing World (SCW) HPC readership survey have shown training and support for HPC resources are the number one concern for both those that operate and manage HPC facilities and researchers using HPC resources

PSSC Labs, a developer of custom HPC and Big Data computing solutions, today announced it is working with Atmospheric Data Solutions, (ADS) to provide a new turnkey HPC system aimed at weather modelling applications

Some of Europe’s leading supercomputing centres have joined forces to create a buyers group that will enable joint public procurement of new HPC systems.

Atos, the company behind European supercomputer developer Bull, has announced that it was awarded a contract to install a new system for the UK’s Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE)