supercomputing

We're here at SuperComputing '08 in Austin, Texas catching up with a few exhibitors.

Michael Dell this morning addressed attendees of the SC08 conference and spoke of the 'fourth wave' of supercomputing where powerful HPC-based clusters will be used by organizations of all sizes to solve complex compute problems.

Supercomputing is helping UK researchers to delve deeper into the workings of the human mind than ever before.

ZDNet: "Red Hat on Thursday introduced what it called the first fully integrated, Linux-based, high-performance-computing platform, claiming to undercut a similar Windows-based system recently introduced by Microsoft."

I've long followed and blogged about the prominence of Linux in supercomputing and the twice-annual Top500 Supercomputer List.