Sun Microsystems has started promoting an effort to return to its high-performance computing roots, as it aims at the weakened SGI and the ascendant IBM. In a news conference held late last week, Sun introduced Shahin Khan in his new role as head...
Because they string together hundreds - or potentially thousands - of servers in a single sale, the computer maker has put great emphasis on the cluster program. While Dell did not announce pricing or an exact ship date, the new PowerEdge 3250 is...
The Windows Server 2003 HPC Edition will include features for running windows on clusters of machines interconnected by a high-speed network to form a single computing resource, Microsoft said in a statement yesterday.
Software architect Marvin Theimer said on Thursday that the company hopes to have a beta version by this summer, with the final version of Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition ready by the SC2005 supercomputing conference in November.
Kyril Faenov, director of Microsoft's HPC unit, said: "HPC [high performance computing] is starting to broaden out. Gates is slated to speak at the SC05 supercomputing conference - a first for Microsoft - where he will announce the company has...
The focus of High Performance Computing (HPC) grids (those for scientific mathematical modelling and research use) is beginning to disappear - users are looking at how grids can be used in more commercial environments, and in ironing out the peaks...