Today Russian HPC vendor T-Platforms unveiled what it calls the world’s highest-density blade system.

David Chernicoff writes that Peer 1 Hosting in the U.K. has launched an HPC Cloud service based on Nvidia Tesla GPUs: The primary benefit of this type of cloud service certainly seems to be the ability to expand your computing capabilities in areas that you might not previously have considered.

With the release of Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 a few weeks back we decided to run some benchmarks of this operating system against PC-BSD 8.1, OpenSolaris b134, and Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS. For those unfamiliar with Nexenta Core Platform, it is an operating system that combines the OpenSolaris kernel with a...

There’s a lot of news in store this week from the Intel Developer Forum. In this video, Intel’s Steve Smith gives a first look at the company’s next-generation, 32 nanometer processor expected in 2011.