Warmth and water… Two things that don’t fit the brisk and bone dry image of a data center. But the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), along with HP and Intel, are blazing new trails in IT efficiency with a novel data center cooling system based on warm water for a new high-performance computing (HPC) site […]
NVIDIA GPUs, AMD CPUs for faster supercomputer at Oak Ridge
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Jaguar supercomputer is undergoing a $97 million upgrade that will not only result in a name change — soon to be known as “Titan” — but also stands a good chance of ruling the Top500 list of supercomputers when it’s complete in 2012. If and when that occurs, they’ll have graphics […]
SiCortex – Green, Open Source High Performance Computing
Curious about the vendor mentioned in the story about the new computers used by Royal Military College of Canada aircraft engineers, I pointed by browser to Maynard, MA-based SiCortex. I’m glad I did… Befitting the affinity many scientists and researchers…
