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Photos: UWA installs Fornax supercomputer 
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Photos: UWA installs Fornax supercomputer
By Liz Tay | Jan 20, 2012 | Comment Now 
Prepares to launch second Pawsey machine in March.
 
CSIRO kicks off search for petascale supercomputer 
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CSIRO kicks off search for petascale supercomputer
By Liz Tay | Nov 23, 2011 | Comment Now 
To finalise Pawsey supply contract by April.
 
Swinburne commissions hybrid 130-TFLOP machine 
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Swinburne commissions hybrid 130-TFLOP machine
By Liz Tay | Jul 13, 2011 | Comment Now 
New supercomputer to be deployed by September.
 
Photos: Inside Murdoch's $5m Linux supercomputer 
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Photos: Inside Murdoch's $5m Linux supercomputer
By Liz Tay | Jun 9, 2011 | Comment Now 
Researchers to apply for time on world's 87th fastest machine.
 
iVEC seeks input on petascale Pawsey site 
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iVEC seeks input on petascale Pawsey site
By Liz Tay | May 19, 2011 | Comment Now 
CSIRO to deploy $65m supercomputing 'beast'.
 
Cloud providers to stick with CPUs: Intel 
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Cloud providers to stick with CPUs: Intel
By Liz Tay | Apr 7, 2011 | 1 Comment 
No economies of scale for GPU supercomputing?
 
Nvidia targets enterprise supercomputing 
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Nvidia targets enterprise supercomputing
By Liz Tay | Mar 16, 2011 | Comment Now 
GPUs boost industry calculations.
 
CSIRO to double supercomputer capability 
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CSIRO to double supercomputer capability
By Liz Tay | Feb 16, 2011 | Comment Now 
Seeks to replace three-year-old SGI Altix system.
 
President's men seek US$1 billion for IT research 
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President's men seek US$1 billion for IT research
By Brett Winterford | Dec 29, 2010 | Comment Now 
And less focus on supercomputing performance.
 
Supercomputer takes on HIV 
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Supercomputer takes on HIV
By Shaun Nichols | Nov 3, 2009 | Comment Now 
World's most powerful system turns to bio-tech work.
 
Microsoft acquires Interactive Supercomputing 
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Microsoft acquires Interactive Supercomputing
By Ben Grubb | Sep 22, 2009 | Comment Now 
Plans to use ISC technology in future Operating Systems.
 
Cray XT Jaguar takes supercomputing lead 
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Cray XT Jaguar takes supercomputing lead
By Ian Williams | Nov 12, 2008 | Comment Now 
The Cray XT Jaguar at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee will probably lead the top 500 supercomputers list that comes out next week.
 
Supercomputing now dominated by X86 architecture 
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Supercomputing now dominated by X86 architecture
By Nebojsa Novakovic | Sep 26, 2008 | Comment Now 
High performance computing (HPC) may be the pinnacle of the computer speed pyramid, but not its profit pyramid.
 
Supercomputing revenue to grow $6.4b by 2012 
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Supercomputing revenue to grow $6.4b by 2012
By Liz Tay | Sep 12, 2008 | Comment Now 
High Performance Computers (HPC) are extending their reach from academic research to government, manufacturing and financial industries, analysts say.
 
US$4m centre to develop software for multithreaded supercomputing 
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US$4m centre to develop software for multithreaded supercomputing
By Liz Tay | Jul 17, 2008 | Comment Now 
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has established a new research centre as an aim to develop software for a new breed of multithreaded supercomputers.
 
Sun's 'macrochips' to extend Moore's Law 
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Sun's 'macrochips' to extend Moore's Law
By Liz Tay | Mar 25, 2008 | Comment Now 
Forget the shrinking size of conventional electronic components -- bigger is better in a new computer chip design that could yield low-cost supercomputing.
 
Microsoft teams with Barcelona for supercomputing research 
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Microsoft teams with Barcelona for supercomputing research
Jan 22, 2008 | Comment Now 
The Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) has joined forces with Microsoft to research the interaction of microprocessors and software over the next 10 years..
 
Computing is dead, long live supercomputing 
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Computing is dead, long live supercomputing
By Ian Williams | Jun 29, 2007 | Comment Now 
Supercomputing Conference keynote maps out the future.
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