Ars technica has a brief look at the world's fastest x86-based supercomputer and Europe's fastest supercomputer—not to mention the 4th most powerful in the world. The SuperMUC, which runs SUSE Linux, is located at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. "A statement issued by SUSE says...

Over at Scalability.org, Joe Landman writes that the recent financial debacle with the Encanto supercomputer in New Mexico shows that it is more important than ever to have a valid business model in today’s HPC market. University level supercomputing centers are common. State/regional level centers are subject to politics as...

If there's one fact of computing life, it's that there's never enough damn storage, and if you think it's bad now, just wait 'til you're downloading 4K movies. Still, research is at least keeping up, and now scientists can store bits of information on single molecules—which could pave the way...

 In this slidecast, Bill Bain and David Brinker from ScaleOut Software present an overview of the company’s in-memory data grid solutions. ScaleOut StateServer runs as a distributed, software service on every Web or application server in your server farm to store data objects in memory and make them globally accessible across the farm...