Penguins are generally found in the cold regions of the southern hemisphere, but the avian mascot of the Linux operating system is headed for the other side of the world as part of an energy project in Iceland.
A cluster of 240 Intel CPUs at Swinburne University of Technology will be among the world's 50 fastest computers and only the second system in Australia capable of performing one trillion floating-point operations per second.
A new high-performance computing centre in Perth, Western Australia, has attracted large projects from two Australian universities seeking improved data modelling and rendering capabilities.
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Big Blue begins a new program to rent out processing power on its own supercomputers by signing up a petrochemical company as a first customer.
Quadrics, which manufactures gear that links numerous Linux computers into a single supercomputer, has made its products compatible with systems built around Intel's Itanium 2 chip.
When supercomputers get together, things get hot fast. Our photo gallery reveals how modern datacentres are cooled, and gives an insight into Google's secret solution to the problem.
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