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How to build your own supercomputer

Supercomputer do-it-yourselfer Bruce Allen says anyone can build one with some simple equipment

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The world’s 10 fastest supercomputers

Los Alamos and Oak Ridge laboratories break the petaflop barrier.

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News about supercomputers

Article | 10/02/2012 Cray courts the big-data market
Supercomputer company Cray has created a new division that will sell big-data systems, the company has announced. The division will market its offerin...
Article | 14/12/2011 Nvidia: Gaming systems to reach 'tens of teraflops' by 2019
Graphics processor maker Nvidia expects gaming systems will reach a performance of "tens of teraflops" by the end of the decade, and be capable of dis...
Article | 16/11/2011 Intel pushes 50-core chip, mulls exascale computing
Intel is drumming up support for its latest 50-core Knights Corner and Xeon E5 server chips, which are key elements in the company's plans to scale pe...
Article | 16/11/2011 Amazon Web Services adds supercomputing service to its cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) wants to attract more high-performance computing users to its cloud and has launched a public beta of Cluster Compute Eight ...
Article | 15/11/2011 Fujitsu to team with Whamcloud in Lustre development
Fujitsu said Tuesday it will work with Whamcloud to develop new features for the open-source Lustre file system aimed at high-performance computing.

Features about supercomputers

Article | 19/11/2009 Georgia Tech supercomputer powered by graphics processors
Georgia Tech researchers building an experimental new supercomputer say graphics processors may help pave the way toward future exascale machines, whi...
Article | 10/12/2008 Inside Tsubame - the Nvidia GPU supercomputer
When you enter the computer room on the second floor of Tokyo Institute of Technology's computer building, you're not immediately struck by the size o...
Article | 23/09/2008 Supercomputer race: Tricky to boost system speed
Every June and November, with fanfare lacking only in actual drum rolls and trumpet blasts, a new list of the world's fastest supercomputers is reveal...

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