Cray has announced the Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) has awarded the Company with a $26 million supercomputer contract for a Cray XC40 supercomputer and three Cray Sonexion storage systems.
‘Moore's Law may be dead, but Mucci’s law is going strong’ says the creator of a new performance optimisation tool
Robert Roe investigates the motivation behind the architectural changes to Europes fastest supercomputer, Piz Daint, housed at the Swiss National Computing Centre
Robert Roe discusses the merits of the latest storage technologies, including a push by storage providers to develop end-to-end platforms featuring intelligent data management systems
Is the debate on open-source vs. proprietary software for scientific computing just irrelevant ideology? Andrew Jones investigates
After a shaky start, interest in migrating HPC to the cloud is growing rapidly. Tom Wilkie reports
Andrew Jones looks ahead at what 2016 has in store for HPC and finds people, not technology, to be the most important issue
Robert Roe finds that upgrading legacy HPC systems is a complicated business, and that some obvious solutions may not be the best options
Adrian Giordani reports on progress in quantum computing and carbon nanotubes, but finds their commercial application still lies some way in the future
Robert Roe finds that software scalability and portability may be more important even than energy efficiency to the future of HPC
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Thermo Fisher’s James Pena gives his thoughts on how scientists can advance their research goals through the implementation of cloud technology in the laboratory
Robert Roe takes a look at a selection of HPC software tools that can help scientists create applications or run them more effectively
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Robert Roe takes a look at a selection of software tools designed to make it easier to manage and implement HPC resources
