Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

The dawn of high-performance computing came in the 1970s with the development of the Cray 1 and other custom-built supercomputers running proprietary operating systems. The early 1990s saw the use of ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

Linux NetworX has sent out a press release proclaiming the sale of "the largest and most powerful Linux cluster" ever. This system has been sold to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and should ...

More work needs to be done on Linux at the operating system level, grids will have limited appeal, and there will be a mass movement to embrace clustering software among organizations large and small.

Search Enterprise Linux talks with Paul Terry, CTO of Cray Canada. "Terry: The Cray XD1 system, together with Cray's Red Storm platforms, will be the first Linux system purpose-built to handle HPC ...

How many MIT scientists does it take to build a Linux cluster? Just one, at least in the school’s Department of Chemical Engineering. As part of his post-doctoral research at MIT, Vikram Kuppa, a Ph.D ...

The latest version of PathScale's compiler suite includes support for AMD's 64-bit architecture, Intel's Extended Memory 64 Technology and performance improvements, the company said on Tuesday.

Linux high availability is a must when the platform supports mission-critical applications, which is increasingly the case in enterprise data centers. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 offers the Red ...