High Performance Computing (HPC)

 

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High Performance Computing (HPC) is a technology that describes supercomputers or computer clusters that process applications at a high rate of density and at high speeds, using parallel computing with multiple processors to obtain results as quickly as possible.

In recent settings, HPC is applied in business uses and designed to address and solve real world business challenges.

Check out the High Performance Computing Resource Center to learn more about productivity improvements with high performance clustered computing, best practices on improving computing efficiency, lowering the costs of your high density computing resources, product reviews, vendor profiles, and informed industry commentary.

 
  Key Concepts: HPC clusters, supercomputer architecture, high performance grid computing, high performance systems  
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Getting Serious About Chocolate

Source: The New York Times

IBM has agreed to lend a hand in Mars' initiative to sequence and analyze the cocoa genome. IBM will lend its supercomputing chops to the project that also includes the U.S. ...

IBM Joins Quest for Better Chocolate

Source: IT Business Edge Blogs

Lest we be left to suffer a life with inferior chocolate, candy bar maker Mars is partnering with IBM and the U.S. Department of Agriculture in a five-year project to

The Infiniband Fabric

Source: IT Business Edge

Roadrunner Tops List of Fastest Supercomputers

Source: IT Business Edge Blogs

ZDNet's Larry Dignan calls supercomputers the muscle cars of IT: something few people ...

Top 500 Names IBM's 'Roadrunner' Most Powerful System

Source: ZDNet

The Top 500 organization has named IBM's "Roadrunner," the supercomputer built for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the most powerful system in the world. Rounding out the top ...

Test Shows Infiniband can be Extended Across WAN

Source: Business Wire

ADVA Optical Networking, Obsidian Strategics and Voltaire have shown in a recent test that InfiniBand connections can be extended to 50km without affecting performance. Extending ...

Supercomputer Adds Windows to Linux

Source: IT Business Edge Blogs

IBM is expected to announce Monday it has built what may be the largest dual-boot Windows-Linux ...

Scali Teams with Chelsio for Complete Ethernet Solution

Source: PR Newswire

Chelsio 10GbE Unified Wire RDMA/TCP adapters now support Scali MPI Connect. The partnership offers Scali MPI Connect users a complete Ethernet-based solution that provides ...

NetEffect Partners with Microsoft to Support RDMA

Source: Business Wire

NetEffect is working with Microsoft to support the NetworkDirect interface to allow Windows HPC Server 2008 to take full advantage of iWARP RDMA. NetEffect-accelerated Ethernet ...

SGI Launches Power-Packed Data Warehouse Solution

Source: CNNMoney.com

SGI has launched a data warehouse solution specifically developed for Complex Decision Support environments. The solution, part of the Oracle Optimized Warehouse Initiative, is ...

 
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