Breakthrough Geophysical Supercomputing Technology Enables More Reliable, Less Expensive Oil Exploration in Gulf of Mexico:

By ADMINISTRATOR on January 03, 2008 (11:50:57 PM) America/Los_Angeles

Repsol YPF, a globally integrated energy company based in Spain, was recently honored as a 2008 technology "winner" by the editors of IEEE Spectrum, the trade publication of IEEE, the world's largest organization of technology and business leaders, for Repsol YPF's Kaleidoscope Project.

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Microsoft tackles high-performance computing

By ADMINISTRATOR on January 02, 2008 (7:24:24 AM) America/Los_Angeles

Microsoft has released the first public beta of Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008, a server operating system and tools designed for high-performance computing. The company also established the Parallel Computing Initiative, a program creating a set of common development tools across multicore desktops and clusters.

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The New Face of the TOP500

By ADMINISTRATOR on January 02, 2008 (7:21:16 AM) America/Los_Angeles

In the recent lists, the TOP500 coverage has shifted from pure high-performance computing (HPC) to include more enterprise-based solutions. In the latest TOP500 release, the 30th list, published in November 2007, the majority of the systems were enterprise datacenter (EDC)-based, mainly interconnected rack-mounted systems, while the minority of the systems were the traditional high-performance computers, mainly cluster-based solutions. In this article we will analyze the historical and current technological trends in high-performance computing and provide an updated analysis model for the TOP500 project.

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ASU Receives $1million for Undergraduate Research

By ADMINISTRATOR on January 02, 2008 (6:53:31 AM) America/Los_Angeles

ASU’s computational mathematical sciences program in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will power a new set of undergraduate research projects beginning in January with a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation.

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