HPC News, SGI, Blue Waters, Dell

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 9 2011) Supercomputer

...cabinets will be water-cooled. The National Science Foundation’s Blue Waters project was awarded to Cray last month after NCSA and IBM terminated the original contract last summer. Dell’s HPC Strategy. The Register reports on how Dell is going to engage the market to grow its HPC strategy. The primary focus for Dell’s HPC strategy is to concentrate on smaller HPC systems where projects are well-bounded with known ... (Read Full Article)

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AMD's big new number: 16 cores for your server

Explore Technology News (Nov 14 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

... per CPU for up to 384GB memory per CPU. The new Opterons hit the market with good support from HP, Cray, AMAX, IBM and Dell. ZDNet UK reviewed the Dell server based on the 16-core AMD Opteron. AMD also outlined a new platform, the Opteron 3000 Series,... (Read Full Article)

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IBM Pulls the Plug on Blue Waters

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 9 2011)

...st optimize the infrastructure. IBM could still pull through with an alternative system, but SGI, Cray, HP, Dell and others are surely available options as well. (Read Full Article)

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