In this video, Buddy Bland from Oak Ridge National Laboratory describes the new Titan supercomputer, which just came in at #1 on the TOP500. As a hybrid system, Titan derived 100 percent of its LINPACK performance from NVIDIA K20X accelerators. 

This week the RSC Group from Russia announced that the new RSC Tornado SUSU supercomputer was deployed at the South Ural State University (SUSU). As Europe’s largest university supercomputing system equipped with Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors, the new system includes 192 computing nodes with direct liquid cooling and 236.8 TFLOP of performance.

This week the Italian E4 Computer Engineering group launched the CARMA Cluster, a low-power HPC appliance that pairs an ARM processor with a Nvidia GPU. We felt an immediate connection with SECO in terms of experimentation and innovation,” said Simone Tinti, HPC Team Leader of E4 Computer Engineering. 

It's already no secret that Linux tends to dominate as the operating system of choice on the world's fastest supercomputers, but the release on Monday of the 40th edition of the twice-yearly Top500 List of the world’s top supercomputers made that connection more clear than ever.