Stacey Higginbotham writes, "After more than two years of pushing its scientific computing efforts, Nvidia's graphics processors will be offered as an option in the newest line of Cray desktop supercomputers." read more » DiscussBury
Intel and Cray are teaming up to use the former's CPU and upcoming GPU parts in the latter's supercomputers. We take an in-depth, technical look inside the announcement, and get a peek at supercomput read more » DiscussBury
Ashley Vance reports on a new deal between Intel and Cray in which they will work closely together on future systems and Intel Xeon CPU's will be included in some of Cray's upcoming servers. This is a coup for Intel, as Cray has been utilizing AMD's Opteron CPUs. read more » DiscussBury
Cray Supercomputing is slotting Xeons into their future Cascade Supercomputer. It is unknown whether they still are planning to use Opterons as well as general purpose CPUs. read more » DiscussBury
NEC claims to have a new supercomputer which can operate at 839 teraflops (trillions of calculations per second). This would significantly outpace IBM's current world leading BlueGene if it is actua read more » DiscussBury
