High-performance sales see sharp decline

As expected, worldwide factory revenue for the high performance computing (HPC) technical server market declined sharply to $2,5-billion in the third quarter of 2013 (3Q13), down from an exceptional $3,4-billion in the same period of 2012, according to the newly...

HPC enters the mainstream

High performance computing (HPC) around the world is being used to analyse big data, as well as to drive the move towards cloud computing. These are among the findings of the latest International Data Corporation (IDC) worldwide study of high performance computing...

Recovery for high-performance computing

Worldwide factory revenue for the high-performance computing (HPC) technical server market jumped by 7,9% to nearly $2,6-billion in the second quarter of 2013 (2Q13), up from $2,4-billion in the same period of 2012, according to the newly released International Data...
SA students win on HPC stage

SA students win on HPC stage

The team of South African students that won the Student Cluster Competition at the recent International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Liepzig, Germany, entered the contest as the underdogs. South Africa was represented at the competition for the first time this...

Co-processing grows in HPC sites

The proportion of high performance computing (HPC) sites employing co-processors and accelerators more than doubled during the past two years, and a surprising two thirds of HPC sites are now performing big data analysis as part of their HPC workloads. This is...