Shaloo Shalini writes that HPC may be on the verge of a paradigm shift towards cloud computing: The erstwhile islands of large-scale supercomputing facilities may soon become outdated thanks to inroads made by cloud computing into HPC territory in addressing the issues of scale, access, and affordability.

Canonical's work on the "Maverick Meerkat" Ubuntu 10.10 development effort has been mostly about polishing the desktop, but the commercial Linux distributor has not forgotten about the server business that increasingly pays the bills.…...

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to meet Molly Dix and Jeff Cope, who run the Open Innovation Advisory Services group at RTI.

When Nvidia kicked off the GPU conference a couple of week ago, one of the first things they announced was that MATLAB now supports GPUs.