Entries tagged with 'supercomputer'

Links of interest for 19 May 2008 - 19 Jun 2008:

June 2008 | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites - Woohoo!!! Sun are finally back in the top 10.
Anything But a Flash in the Pan - Sun's shares may be tanking at the moment, but you've got to read this to see where Sun is going. Once [...]

Links of interest for 29 May 2007 - 7 July 2007:

Sun eyes supercomputing glory - If Sun can get this out before IBM’s BlueGene/P, we may be in for a good supercomputer battle.
GNU Free Software License Gets Upgrade to Meet Modern Demands -
Germany adopts “anti-hacker” law; critics say it breeds insecurity - Hmmm, I [...]

I was a little surprised and saddened to read that DARPA has decided to pump US$250m into Cray and US$244m in IBM for them to work on DARPA’s next high performance computing initiative - their “Petascale” program.
There was a lot of bidding and vying for the investment and it came down to 3 final contenders [...]

Sun has always been in the supercomputers list, but never particularily high up. I think this is mainly due to the historical cost of Sun kit, and because those that did have Sun powered supercomputers, didn’t want to advertise the fact (I certainly wouldn’t want my easily swappable and expensive CPU and memory boards knicked [...]