IDC has released its Top 10 HPC Market Predictions for 2013. The big takeaways? While the outlook is good for business, the industry goal of reaching Exascale by 2018 looks to be slipping by at least two years. 1. The Worldwide HPC Market Will Leave the Global Economic Recession Behind and Will Be in a Healthy Growth Mode. In 2009, the low point of the global economic downturn, worldwide HPC server...

Today Univa released the latest version of Univa Grid Engine. With cross-platform support, Release 8.1.4. of Univa Grid Engine includes a number of customer-driven enhancements.

Bull has inaugurated its Centre for Excellence in Parallel Programming, described as the leading European centre of technical and industrial excellence in this field. By working with technology leaders, this centre aims to support engineers and scientists in research centres and industry to overcome the critical technological barrier of “HPC application parallelisation.” Bull says the Centre will be equipped with the highest levels of expertise, to help research labs and companies optimise their applications so they...

The first incarnation of Blue Brain — a digital representation of the human mind — could simulate 10,000 neurons firing and interacting just as they would in an actual brain. But with 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion total connections in a real human brain, it'll require a supercomputer to...