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Wilkes Supercomputer at Cambridge remains “Greenest”
The supercomputer that is the “greenest of its kind” remains at Cambridge University. Wilkes (named after computing pioneer Maurice Wilkes) is used for development of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). While it is some way off being the most powerful in the world – Wilkes was built to be efficient rather than powerful. “Energy-efficiency is the …
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Softiron announces Worlds first production 64-bit Arm based enterprise server motherboard
Southampton, UK, 19th June 2014 – SoftIron today announced it will showcase its 64-bit ARMv8 based enterprise-grade server motherboard at the 2014 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), taking place in Leipzig, Germany from June 22-26, 2014
Registration Now Open for CHPC National Meeting
The Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) invites the world’s HPC policy-makers, researchers, vendors, industrial and academic partners and members of the public to attend their eight annual meeting to be held in Kruger National Park, Skukuza, Mpumalanga, South Africa 1-5 December 2014. Register for the conference at www.chpcconf.co.za.
ARCHER supercomputer inaugurated
A new generation supercomputer, capable of more than one million billion calculations a second, is to be inaugurated at an event at the National Museum of Scotland today (Tuesday 25 March 2014). The £43 million ARCHER (Academic Research Computing High End Resource) system will provide high performance computing support for research and industry projects …
Bristol joins Intel Parallel Computing Center Program to collaborate on parallel computing
Modern computer systems are becoming increasingly parallel, which can make them much more challenging to use efficiently. Intel® Parallel Computing Centers (IPCCs) are being established with leading high performance computing (HPC) research groups in order to directly combat the challenge of using modern computer systems more efficiently. Intel has selected the University of Bristol as …
‘Greenest’ supercomputer unveiled at Cambridge University
A supercomputer that is the “greenest of its kind” has been built at Cambridge University. Wilkes – named after computing pioneer Maurice Wilkes – will be used for development of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). When complete the SKA will be the biggest radio telescope ever made. The computer’s power is the …
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