The US space agency has spent $17.5m on the giant machine from HP which will be based in Nasa's Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. It will be linked to Nasa's weather satellites orbiting the earth.
On Thursday, researchers at the US-based National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure announced full Itanium 2 support for its software, which is designed to make it less difficult to set up Linux-based supercomputer clusters.
Stanford University opened the doors on Tuesday to a new computational earth science centre, joined by project backer and alumn Scott McNealy, chairman of Sun Microsystems. The new centre, called the Center for Computational Earth and Environmental...
Other projects the company is eyeing include software and sensors to make electricity distribution grids more efficient and reliable. As it ventures into green products and services, IBM plans to combine the skills of its business consultants in...
Last September, Intel's Justin Rattner unveiled Intel's proposed answer: an 80-core chip in which the cores are linked through an embedded network. The company's Tile64 — designed for networking equipment and video-streaming servers — can provide...
These computational workhorses and their predecessors at the Met Office Hadley Centre crunched through global data to produce evidence for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, whose predictions of a 0.2C temperature rise per...
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