Information Technology Market

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) a contract for $47 Mln to provide the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) with a next-generation Cray supercomputer. As part of an interagency partnership between DOE and the U.S. Department of Commerce, which oversees NOAA, the [...]

Supercomputer giant Cray Inc. won all three high performance computing (HPC) system contracts of the Department of Defense (DoD). HPC contracts are awarded within framework of High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP). The set of 3 contracts, worth more than $45 million including multi-year services, is the largest DoD HPCMP system award to a [...]

Worldwide Defense High Performance Computing (HPC) Market Forecast 2010-2015

U.S. Federal Cloud Computing Market Forecast 2010-2015

Until now, cloud solutions have been primarily focused on running important business applications like CRM, ERP, email and other database programs. SGI has announced the world’s first large-scale, on-demand cloud computing service specifically dedicated to technical High Performance [...]

Voltaire, a leading provider of scale-out computing fabrics for data centers, high performance computing and cloud environments, is hosting a live webinar event with NYSE Technologies on Wednesday, January 27, 2010, at 11:00 am ET (4:00 pm GMT) detailing how the solution slashes end-to-end trading latency for financial services institutions. To register for the event [...]

Voltaire Ltd. announced the industry’s first 40 Gb/s InfiniBand switch with a built-in low latency Ethernet gateway for seamlessly bridging traffic to and from Ethernet-based networks. The Grid Director 4036E features thirty-four, fully non-blocking 40 Gb/s InfiniBand ports (delivering 2.72 Tb/s), less than 100 nanoseconds of port-to-port latency, and two 1 or 10 Gigabit Ethernet [...]

HPC Advisory Council and the Swiss Supercomputing Centre will host the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2010 in the Lugano Convention Centre, Lugano, Switzerland, from March 15-17, 2010. The workshop will focus on High-Performance Computing education and training including CPU technologies, accelerators, networking, storage, software middleware and various applications.

Worldwide Defense High Performance Computing (HPC) Market Forecast 2010-2015

Six-core upgrade has added 70 percent more computational muscle than last year’s quad-core – an upgrade to a Cray XT5 high-performance computing system deployed by the Department of Energy has made the “Jaguar” supercomputer the world’s fastest.
To net the number-one spot on the TOP500 list [...]

National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Office of Cyberinfrastructure awarded $12 million to the Georgia Institute of Technology. The award is intended to lead a partnership of academic, industry and government experts in the development and deployment of an innovative and experimental high-performance computing (HPC) system. The award provides for the creation of two heterogeneous, HPC systems [...]

The Massachusetts state administration, MIT, the University of Massachusetts, Boston University, EMC, and Cisco have signed an agreement committing to establish a world-class, high-performance computing center in Holyoke, and a statewide collaborative research program. This decision positions Massachusetts to be a leader in the application and development of the next generation of computing technologies, and [...]

Worldwide Defense High Performance Computing (HPC) Market Forecast 2010-2015 provides worldwide defense HPC market forecast for the period 2010-2015

U.S. Federal Cloud Computing Market Forecast 2010 – 2015 provides agency-by-agency detailed forecasts for both defense and civilian sectors and cloud computing market segmentation by investment type.

Cloud computing is gaining traction in the commercial world, but can [...]