Technology designed to blast aliens in computer games is part of a new GPU (graphics processing units) computer cluster that will process research data thousands of times faster and more efficiently ...

Frank Barnet was having epic thoughts when he set about naming his new computer. An associate professor of math at Frostburg State University, he built it over the summer using four Sony PlayStation ...

The "Raj" high-performance computer cluster at Marquette University. Photo courtesy of Marquette University. Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact ...

The University of Nevada, Reno unveiled plans to develop a computing cluster, called Pronghorn, that will boost research capacity and better support the latest research applications at the university.

When black holes crash into each other at the center of a galaxy, the safest place to be is on the other side of the computer simulating the drama. Scientists who study black holes simulate ...

A new computer cluster has been unveiled by Queen Mary, University of London that will link to a 100,000 processor grid in the UK and around the world. The projects that will be researched include a ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- When engineers conduct research on groundwater, the water that flows beneath Earth's surface, they usually think of "large-scale" as one watershed -- an area of land where all of the ...

They have been used to model climate change, forecast economic trends, and simulate the intricate complexities folding proteins. Now IBM has something new in store for high-performance computers: ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University, with a $3.6 million gift from Sun Microsystems, is giving recycled PCs new life as a computer cluster that makes high-performance computing power available in ...

Decades before "big data" and "the cloud" were a part of our everyday lives and conversations, a custom computer cluster based at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ...

For the last decade, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff has promoted his pet idea that traditional application software was destined for obsolescence. He was a few years early, but Benioff understood ...