National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), part of the Australian National University (ANU), is working towards a contract with the Federal Government that will see $50 million spent on a new datacentre and supercomputer by 2012.
Far from the world of datacentres and silicon, an agriculture project at the University of Melbourne is an unlikely place to find the forefront of cloud computing and web applications.
Australia's Bureau of Meteorology and the Australian National University this morning revealed they had inked a four-year, $30 million deal with Sun Microsystems to build a new high-performance computing (HPC) system to support weather forecasting.
This photo gallery takes you inside Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US, home to some of the world's fastest supercomputers. It's also the site where the first plutonium was refined to create atomic bombs during World War II.
As Bill Gates steps down from full-time work at Microsoft, well-wishing cheers and not-so-nice jeers are echoing from Silicon Valley.
The world of IT security is in chaos, with CSOs seemingly on the front lines of a full scale global cyberwar being fought out by government hackers, botnet-controlling criminal gangs and compromised Web sites. Can we ever hope to keep networks safe in such an environment?
While Windows is ubiquitous on the desktop and well represented in the server racks, until recently it has been nearly absent from the world's largest supercomputers.
In the world of processors, attention seems firmly focused on the fast-paced desktop and mobile markets. But that doesn't mean that there's nothing going on in server-land.
Supercomputer expert Cray and Intel have entered a multi-year agreement on high-performance computing, a deal that seems to leave rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in the lurch.
If you listen to Intel, the last hold-outs against the x86 instruction set are about to fall with super-powered Nehalem swarms mopping up the high end of massed Power PC supercomputers, and sneaky little Atoms nibbling away at the ARM embedded market.
The average datacentre lasts between 15 and 20 years, so when the current generation of datacentres near the end of their working life, will their replacements be at all familiar?
It's not Star Trek, but quantum computing looks set to revolutionise the way we do computing.
The last time we heard of SLI, we loved it. Has Nvidia done anything better with it this time round?
With such a wide variety of server platforms available, we take a look at some beefy servers sporting some very impressive processing grunt.
Discover the future of computing beyond Moore's Law. Will we have to change our entire approach to software and hardware design?
The graphics chip giant unveils new high-end chips for graphics designers, scientists and other workstation users.
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