HPC

GE, Sandia National Lab Use HPC to Discover Pathway to Quieter, More Productive Wind Turbines

GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric Company, announced research that could significantly impact the design of future wind turbine blades. Utilizing the power of ...Full Article

IR’s R8 RAD-Hard MOSFETs Increase Efficiency Up to 6% While Reducing Footprint 50%

International Rectifier, IR, a world leader in power management technology, introduced two high performance R8 radiation hardened (RAD-Hard) power MOSFETs optimized for space grade point-of-load (POL) voltage regulator applications.Full Article

Some Like IT Cold: Intelligence Agencies Push for Low-Power Exascale

Like the rest of the research world, intelligence agencies are facing some difficult challenges when it comes to fielding the next generation of supercomputers. To help usher in a ...Full Article

U.S. Puts Top Supercomputer up for Rent

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Vulcan_LLNL.png" alt="" width="95" height="95" border="0" />In an effort to make the country more competitive, the federal government has made one of the country’s most powerful supercomputers ...Full Article

Breaking Down Barriers to HPC

The tale of the "missing middle" is all-too-common for many small-to-medium-sized manufacturers looking for a digital leg up on their competition. And at this year's International Supercomputing Conference, the ...Full Article

Eurotech G-Station promises a new concept for small yet powerful HPC systems

High performance computing helps companies to get results faster in many sectors, from engineering to manufacturing, digital media and finance. Applications used in these sectors generally scale over a ...Full Article

Toward an Energy-Efficient, High-Performance Datacenter

A team of researchers from the University of Florida has developed an innovative power management approach that enables high performance low-overhead datacenter operation on pure renewable energy sources.Full Article

GM Invests in HPC Center for Crash Test Simulations

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/gmwarrendc.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="60" border="0" />As the cloud becomes an increasingly attractive option for manufacturers with big needs in IT, scalable options such as outsourced data ...Full Article

Breaking the Sound Barrier with HPC

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/bloodhound.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="68" border="0" />In 1997, a car called ThrustSSC became the first car to break the sound barrier as it blasted across the Arizona ...Full Article

Mavericks Push the Green Envelope

Power consumption and cooling may be concerns for all IT departments, but high performance computing (HPC) demands large amounts of both. GigaOM held a webinar on Tue., April 23, ...Full Article

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