The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NSCA) is to retire the iForge high-performance computing (HPC) system. Founded in 1986 and part of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, ...

Scientists and researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are constantly innovating, integrating novel technologies, and "walking the talk." Since 1982, ...

All of the major HPC centers of the world, whether they are funded by straight science or nuclear weapons management, have enough need and enough money to have two classes of supercomputers. They have ...

As research institutions worldwide race to accelerate discovery in AI, climate science, health, and other fields, the infrastructure supporting these breakthroughs is under greater strain than ever ...

We talk about scale a lot here at The Next Platform, but there are many different aspects to this beyond lashing a bunch of nodes together and counting aggregate peak flops. For instance, for the past ...

A quest to help the systems software community work on very large supercomputers without having to actually test on them has spawned an affordable, scalable system using thousands of inexpensive ...

Nyriad has built resilient storage systems that are accelerated using graphics processing units (GPUs), and today it is unveiling one of those systems in partnership with Advanced HPC. These storage ...

Sun has updated its Constellation System for high-performance computing, covering software, networking and storage. On Tuesday, the company announced a new quad data rate (QDR) switch, new cluster ...