Supercomputing and Parallel Computing

IBM parks parallel file system on Big Data's lawn

21 May 2012

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fattest of them all? The IT universe is seeing a massive collision taking place as the worlds of high-performance computing, big data and warehousing intermingle. IBM is pushing its General Parallel File System (GPFS) further to broaden its footprint in this space, with the 3.5 release adding big data and async replication features as well as customer ...

Nvidia takes its GPU to the enterprise cloud

16 May 2012

The graphics chip specialist has shown off Tesla chips and other technology based on its new Kepler GPU architecture, which it says can boost desktop virtualisation, BYOD and 'democratise' supercomputing ( ZDNet UK - Cloud )

NVIDIA outs a pair of Tesla GPUs to electrify your supercomputer

16 May 2012

NVIDIA's announced a pair of Tesla GPUs that'll give some extra pep to your supercomputing tasks. The K10 and K20 units harness the power of Kepler to add more muscle to the company's scientific and technical computing arm that supplies gear to the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and Tokyo's Tsubame 2.0 . Internal tests reveal that the hardware is around three times faster than the company's ...