HPC

Onur Celebioglu, Dell (Source: Dell)

Dell’s Goal: Democratize HPC

Dell hopes to do for HPC what it did for personal computers: Democratize high-performance computers across a broad swathe of enterprise applications. "HPC is at the core of everything ...Full Article

Cloud, Big Data Take Center Stage at Enterprise HPC

Their work environments spanned industries from aerospace and defense to pharmaceuticals, retail, and government, but Enterprise HPC attendees have many challenges, opportunities, and concerns in common. Often working far removed ...Full Article

Scaled Storage Boosts Climate Modeling Efforts

Climate research projects based on big data analysis increasingly rely on big storage to track historical patterns and extrapolate future trends in a research area with countless variables. The ...Full Article

HPC for Advanced Analytics at the USPS

Today, the United States Postal Service is on its third generation of supercomputers, with each generation more capable than its predecessor. IDC believes the USPS embrace of HPC exemplifies ...Full Article

Honda Speeds Past On-Site Clusters for Critical R&D

When one thinks of Honda Motor Company, the first image that comes to mind are likely of the automobiles, which wouldn’t be unnatural given that the company is a ...Full Article

Prodigal Cray CTO Looks Ahead To Converged Analytics

At the end of the summer, Steve Scott, the chief technology officer who brought many of Cray's interconnects and systems to life in the past several decades, came back ...Full Article

Dell Pushes Up Server Density With FX

Since founding its Data Center Solutions unit back in May 2006, which began with a custom server drawn on the back of a bar napkin at the Driskell Hotel ...Full Article

Intel Datacenter Biz Profits From Hyperscale, HPC Build Outs

In most cases, saying the datacenter is hot is a bad thing, but not so when talking about the financial results of chip maker Intel. The company just reported ...Full Article

So You Want To Be A Financial Services HPC Programmer?

Financial services companies care about three things: Money, security, and programming on the fastest systems they can afford. You can't be a competitive bank, brokerage, trader, or hedge fund ...Full Article

China Slowdown, HPC Stall Hits IBM System Sales

The Chinese government is in the middle of putting together an economic reform and investment plan, and spending by state-owned industries has stalled. This has affected the performance of ...Full Article

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