Cray XT5 supercomputer known as "Jaguar" finally bests IBM after three tries. The top 10, while still dominated by supercomputers housed in the U.S., had just one newcomer.

Let's use the HPC fist bump this year.

A Linux-powered cluster holds one of the world's largest distributed databases. Juliet Kemp reports on the CERA-2 (Climate and Environmental Retrieving and Archiving) database system, which fuels a vast international archive and data distribution center for climate research data.

Argonne National Laboratory is one of the U.S. Department of Energy’s oldest and largest national laboratories for science and engineering research.