rush to make the spring and fall top-500 supercomputer lists and it appears that China was aiming to upgrade its Shanghai Supercomputer Center (SSC), currently listed at position 4: While the Indian System...

more data between processor cores using 10x less power than over copper wires. IBM plans to integrate this technology into their future many-core architectures, eventually bringing our desire for 1000s of processing cores and true supercomputing power, to even...

The prototype network uses light instead of wires, which IBM says can promote energy efficiency that reaches everything from mobile phones to supercomputers. "We have built an even faster transceiver and have moved the optical components away from custom devices...

3 went cheaper, slimmer and lighter, more people have been drawn to picking one up. Interestingly, the U.S. Air Force is now looking to grab 2,200 – yes, that's right – PS3 consoles to use as part of its supercomputing cluster. Last year, the Air Force...

the opportunity of exploiting the massive floating point horsepower of graphics chips. AMD and Nvidia have begun pitching their Tesla and FireStream stream processor cards as integral parts of deskside supercomputers, which offer about 20 times the speed of...

when they will have dozens of cores by 2009 or 2010? Realistically, that is a talent that only has been available with people who have programmed applications for hundreds or thousands of cores - supercomputers - already in the past. From that view, the decision...

it will be the third brand in Nvidia’s product portfolio, following GeForce (including nForce), Quadro and Tesla. Tesla is the newest brand in the company’s lineup and was introduced as a name for the firm’s supercomputing products. The name Tesla goes...