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Diginex and Symbioses deploy decentralised supercomputing network

Mon, 3rd Sep 2018
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Diginex will provide up to 2,500 nodes at its Switzerland data centre to perform optimised cryptocurrency mining on the Symbioses network.
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HPE to triple performance with new supercomputer for US laboratory

Wed, 15th Aug 2018
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The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has opted with Hewlett Packard Enterprise for a new supercomputer.
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HPE to provide supercomputer for Swiss brain research initiative

Tue, 10th Jul 2018
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HPE has won a supercomputer bid for a Swiss brain research initiative that employs futuristic data centre technology.
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Lenovo Data Center Group largest provider of TOP500 supercomputers

Tue, 26th Jun 2018
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Lenovo Data Center Group announced at ISC in Frankfurt that it now leads the TOP500 supercomputer list, with 117 systems globally.
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HPE leaping ahead in exascale race with world's largest Arm supercomputer

Tue, 19th Jun 2018
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​Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced a major stepping stone in its path to exascale computing with a new supercomputer for the U.S. DOE.
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NVIDIA's GPU supercomputer for the office

Thu, 14th Jun 2018
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The DGX Station is a quiet, compact GPU-powered deep learning supercomputer that is quiet and small enough to sit next to a desk.
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Industry and academia partner to push UK supercomputer adoption

Mon, 16th Apr 2018
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HPE today announced a plan of action with Arm, SUSE, and three UK universities to accelerate the adoption of supercomputer applications in the UK.
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Inside MareNostrum, the most beautiful data center in the world

Mon, 19th Mar 2018
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Up a side street on the edge of Barcelona, a stone path weaves through a park of old oak trees and flowers, to the steps of the Torre Girona Chapel.
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HPE helps Eni deploy world's most powerful industrial supercomputer

Fri, 19th Jan 2018
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Installed at the oil and gas company's green data centre, the new HPC4 supercomputer has a peak performance of 18.6 petaflops.
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Cosmologists turn to HPE to tackle some of humanity's toughest questions

Wed, 29th Nov 2017
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Some of the worlds leading scientists brought together by Stephen Hawking have turned to Intel & HPE to crunch extraordinary amounts of data.
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Microsoft to offer Cray supercomputing via Azure data centers

Tue, 24th Oct 2017
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Microsoft and Cray have teamed up to enable customers to run workloads on dedicated Cray supercomputers in select Azure data centers.
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University of Exeter speeds up proceedings with new supercomputer

Wed, 6th Sep 2017
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A project involving OCF, Lenovo and Stulz Technology Integration has improved speeds by 2-3x compared to the previous departmental clusters.
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NASA, SpaceX and HPE team up to send a supercomputer to space

Wed, 30th Aug 2017
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NASA, SpaceX, and HPE have collaborated to send an advanced supercomputer to the ISS, aiming to revolutionise Mars mission tech via a year-long experiment.
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One small step toward Mars, One giant leap for supercomputing

Wed, 30th Aug 2017
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Spaceborne Computer, launched via a SpaceX rocket, will conduct a year-long ISS experiment to aid future Mars missions.
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Trans-Tasman bond strengthened as NZ gives $380k for big data project

Tue, 29th Aug 2017
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In addition, funding will come from New Zealand's The Catalyst Fund, which is managed by the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment.
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Lenovo launches largest data centre portfolio in its history

Thu, 22nd Jun 2017
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Lenovo recently unveiled its largest ever and most comprehensive portfolio of server, storage, networking, software and data centre services.
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$14 million boost in supercomputer storage to benefit Australian science

Thu, 28th Jul 2016
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The Australian Government has given an additional £7m to the National Computational Infrastructure's (NCI) supercomputer.
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The Need for Speed

Tue, 1st Mar 2011
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Tom McCullough's workday begins not with a simple computer boot-up, but by prepping 300km/h machines for high-stakes Formula One races for AT&T Williams.