Lenovo announced it has won a contract for the joint construction of an HPC cluster with the University of Paderborn in Germany. The system will include the Lenovo ThinkSystem SD665 V3 server with AMD ...

For more about what hardware you need to build a cluster, see the other articles in HPC 101. You’ve been shopping at your favorite hardware vendor, and you have a cluster all picked out. Number of ...

It is hard to believe that Amazon Web Services has been selling compute, storage, and networking capacity for nearly two decades. And it is easy to mistakenly think of AWS as mostly a subsidiary of ...

Introduction to parallel computing for scientists and engineers. Shared memory parallel architectures and programming, distributed memory, message-passing data-parallel architectures, and programming.

Back in 2004, Apple hobbyist/guru [Michael Mahon] built a cluster of Apple IIe main boards dubbed the “AppleCrate” as an experiment in parallel computing. Now that a few years have passed, he is back ...

Pooch developer Dauger Research Inc. noted that a parallel-processing cluster of 33 Apple Xserves has been used to achieve over 217 billion floating point operations per second (GigaFlops). The ...

Platform Computing has been a player in virtual processing and management software for virtualized resources since 1992. Platform LSF has been the company's flagship product since those early days. It ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...