The dawn of high-performance computing came in the 1970s with the development of the Cray 1 and other custom-built supercomputers running proprietary operating systems. The early 1990s saw the use of ...

How many MIT scientists does it take to build a Linux cluster? Just one, at least in the school’s Department of Chemical Engineering. As part of his post-doctoral research at MIT, Vikram Kuppa, a Ph.D ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

High-end linux clustering comes of age this week with the launch of 32- and 64-bit platforms at LinuxWorld in San Francisco. Although the promise of industrial-strength Linux clustering has been a ...

Twice a year, a group of scientists in Europe and the United States release a list of the world's 500 most powerful computing systems. The Top 500 list is the most prestigious ranking of its kind, ...

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I recently had the opportunity to catch up with clustering pioneer Donald Becker, who started the Beowful project, and is now the CTO of Penguin Computing. I asked him a few questions about the ...

The latest version of PathScale's compiler suite includes support for AMD's 64-bit architecture, Intel's Extended Memory 64 Technology and performance improvements, the company said on Tuesday.

When mission-critical applications fail, so does your business. This often is a true statement in today's environments, where most organizations spend millions of dollars making their services ...