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  • Indian Institute of Science Adopts Cray’s Petaflop Supercomputer; Nick Gorga Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Indian Institute of Science Adopts Cray’s Petaflop Supercomputer; Nick Gorga Comments

    Cray has installed a petaflop supercomputer at the Indian Institute of Science Supercomputing Education and Research Center in Bangalore to aid SERC research initiatives focused on high-performance computing. The company said Monday the Cray XC40 supercomputer, dubbed SahasraT, is equipped with Intel Xeon processors, Dragonfly topology, Aries interconnect technology, DataWarp optional platforms, cooling systems and NVIDIA Tesla graphic processing unit accelerators. […] More

  • Peter Ungaro: Cray to Continue DoD Supercomputing Program Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peter Ungaro: Cray to Continue DoD Supercomputing Program Support

    Cray will provide the Defense Department with two XC40 supercomputers and two Sonexion storage systems to support the military’s High-Performance Computing Modernization Program under a $30 million contract. The company said Monday the U.S. Navy DoD Supercomputing Resource Center at the John C. Stennis Space Center will house the Cray systems intended to support the production of coastal-ocean circulation and wave-model oceanography data. “[DoD HPCMP] remains […] More

  • Jorge Titinger: SGI Computing Tech to Support NASA Climate Research Data Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jorge Titinger: SGI Computing Tech to Support NASA Climate Research Data Work

    SGI will provide its high-performance computing products to support the climate research and analysis activities of NASA‘s Center for Climate Simulation at Goddard Space Flight Center. The company said Monday NCCS has replaced some portions of its Discover supercomputer with SGI Rackable clusters to process weather and climate simulation data at a speed of 1.9 petaflops. […] More

  • SGI to Resell Seagate's ClusterStor Appliances; Jorge Titinger Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SGI to Resell Seagate’s ClusterStor Appliances; Jorge Titinger Comments

    SGI will offer its customers Seagate Technology‘s storage appliances under a reselling partnership agreement that targets academic, industry and government markets with their combined storage and high-performance computing products. The companies said Tuesday SGI customers will have access to Seagate’s ClusterStor Secure Data Appliance, ClusterStor 1500, ClusterStor 6000 and ClusterStor 900. Jorge Titinger, president and CEO of SGI, said he expects the partnership to help […] More

  • Ken Claffey: New Xyratex ClusterStor Data Storage Tool Built for Info Sharing, Security Compliance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ken Claffey: New Xyratex ClusterStor Data Storage Tool Built for Info Sharing, Security Compliance

    Xyratex has unveiled a new product in its ClusterStor range of high-performance computing and big data storage products that are built with multilevel security features and work to manage data storage throughput and data processing functions. The Seagate subsidiary said Tuesday that the ClusterStor Secure Data Appliance is built to meet the government’s Intelligence Community Directive 503 and Cross-Domain Solution requirements. Ken […] More

  • SGI, Cognilytics Form Computing and Analytics Team; Jorge Titinger Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SGI, Cognilytics Form Computing and Analytics Team; Jorge Titinger Comments

    SGI and Cognilytics have partnered to integrate high-performance computing with predictive analytics products with the goal of applying the combined tool for big data. InfiniteData Cluster is a cluster computing platform and SGI UV is a shared-memory platform that is built to carry out micro-second data analysis, SGI said Thursday Jorge Titinger, CEO of SGI, said the […] More