Latest Parallel computing Stories

BOULDER, Colo. and ARMONK, N.Y., Nov. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) today announced that IBM (NYSE: IBM) will install critical components of a petascale supercomputing system at the new NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC). The company was selected following a competitive open procurement process. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO ) The IBM components consist of a massive central resource for file and data storage, a...

TORONTO, Nov. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Platform Computing, the leader in cluster, grid and cloud management software, today announced it will support the Intel® Many Integrated Core (Intel® MIC) architecture in Intel's upcoming Knights Corner products targeting high performance computing applications. Customers using Platform HPC, Platform LSF and Platform Cluster Manager will be able take advantage of the forthcoming Intel MIC architecture to build Intel Cluster Ready (ICR) certified...

eApps Hosting announced today the launch of a Load Balancer service for web sites requiring High Availability (HA). The service provides a redundant, scalable environment for mission critical web sites. The eApps Load Balancer service is implemented in a Cloud based Virtual Machine running HAProxy, stunnel, and Heartbeat. The Load Balancer HA configuration can be scaled horizontally by deploying additional application server Virtual Machine instances and vertically by increasing the...

Computer scientists at Columbia Engineering develop a system that makes multithreaded programs run more stably and efficiently Anyone who uses multithreaded computer programs -- and that's all of us, as these are the programs that power nearly all software applications including Office, Windows, MacOS, and Google Chrome Browser, and web services like Google Search, Microsoft Bing, and iCloud, -- knows well the frustration of computer crashes, bugs, and other aggravating problems. The most...

TROY, Mich., Nov. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of simulation and advanced computing software solutions, announced today that PBS Works(TM) has partnered with Intel Corporation to optimize its software for future Intel® Many Integrated Core (Intel® MIC) products . The strategic partnership was formed to proactively ensure that as the first commercially available Intel MIC product, codenamed "Knights Corner," is launched broadly, PBS...

BADEN, Switzerland and RUESCHLIKON, Switzerland, Nov. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientists at IBM (NYSE: IBM) and ABB, the world's largest builder of electricity grids, are using supercomputers to study and potentially develop a new type of high-voltage insulator that will improve the efficiency of transmitting electricity. An improved insulator has the potential to transform the power grid by reducing energy loss and outages caused by material deterioration when exposed to weather. (Logo:...

China surprised the United States and other world markets last year when it unveiled one of the fastest supercomputers on the planet, and shocked the industry even further when, last week, the country revealed their new powerful number-crunching machine that relies on Chinese microchips rather than standard ones used in many of the world‘s fastest supercomputers. The Chinese Sunway BlueLight MPP supercomputer was installed in September at the National Supercomputer Center in Jinan, the...

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif., Nov. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) today announced that Nokia Siemens Networks, a global leader in telecommunications, is the consortium's newest member of its Networking Subcommittee. As a member of the Networking Subcommittee, Nokia Siemens Networks will have full access to utilize all the benchmark tools provided within that subcommittee, and will help drive the consortium's future direction, in the...

Cray Computer was awarded a $97 million contract by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The contract will upgrade the lab’s current Cray XT5 computer, dubbed Jaguar, which runs at 2.3 million billion calculations per second (petaflops) into a new Cray XK6 with a peak calculation speed between 10 and 20 petaflops. According to the news release, the new system, dubbed as Titan, will contain the latest AMD Opteron central processing units and NVIDIA Tesla...

Researchers from North Carolina State University and IBM have developed a new, experimental technique to better protect sensitive information in cloud computing – without significantly affecting the system’s overall performance. Under the cloud-computing paradigm, the computational power and storage of multiple computers is pooled, and can be shared by multiple users. Hypervisors are programs that create the virtual workspace that allows different operating systems to run in isolation...