HPC

The K computer has taken first place in the HPCG benchmark, a new index of supercomputing performance intended to create a more realistic view of supercomputers than the commonly used LINPACK benchmark

The US Department of Energy’s Office of Science has announced that new 55 projects have been awarded time on HPC resources at Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories through its Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) programme.

China and the United States are still battling for supercomputing supremacy, according to the 48th edition of the TOP500 list

European CFD is taking a step closer to exascale with the announcement that a group of eight organisations from Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom and Switzerland managed to secure 3.3 million euros in funding to research exascale computing performance in CFD codes.

The Centre for Modelling and Simulation (CFMS) has announced the availability of its new supercomputer at an opening ceremony

The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) has announced that Serge Bogaerts has been appointed as its managing director

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has completed its acquisition of the HPC veteran, SGI, formerly Silicon Graphics, for $275 million

Engineers and scientists can now get access to HPC resources more easily because of the Fortissimo Marketplace, a new platform for brokering high-performance computing (HPC) services.

Intersect360 Research, a market research company specialising in the high-performance computing industry, has released a market forecast detailing the expected compound annual growth rates (CAGRs) predicted for the HPC industry over the next five years

Xilinx has announced that Baidu, a Chinese language Internet search provider, is utilising Xilinx FPGAs to accelerate machine learning applications in its data centres in China.