100 million-core supercomputers predicted by 2018
There is a race to make supercomputers as powerful as possible to solve some of the world's most important problems, including climate change, the need for ultra-long-life batteries for cars, operating...
View ArticleScientists Race to Simulate Earthquakes
The rush to build more-powerful supercomputers is part of a larger race to solve some of mankind's biggest problems. One person on the front line of that effort is Thomas Jordan, director of the...
View ArticleOak Ridge National Lab shuts down Internet, email after cyberattack
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory, home to one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, has been forced to shut down its email systems and all Internet access for employees since late last Friday,...
View ArticlePhishing emerges as major corporate security threat
The successful use of phishing emails to breach secure organizations like Oak Ridge National Laboratory and RSA are stark reminders of the serious threat posed by what some experts have dismissed as as...
View ArticlePhishing becomes more sophisticated
The successful use of phishing emails to breach secure organizations like Oak Ridge National Laboratory and EMC's RSA security division is a stark reminder of the serious threat posed by a type of...
View ArticleSecond DOE lab is likely victim of spear-phishing attack
The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is working on restoring Internet connectivity and email services after being hit by a "sophisticated cyberattack" five days ago.
View ArticleCray to Build 20-Petaflop System
The global race for ever-faster supercomputers is getting a new entry.
View ArticleTitan supercomputer gets new 40-petabyte storage system
The world’s fastest supercomputer, Titan, located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, is deploying a new storage system from DataDirect Networks (DDN) to support its research into...
View ArticleChina likely to become No. 1 in supercomputing this week
China has produced a supercomputer capable of 54.9 petaflops that will likely be recognized as the world's fastest system this week with the unveiling of a new Top500 list.
View ArticleArgonne's MIRA supercomputer solves jet engines, Pringles and everything in...
Packing more than 786,000 processor cores, and putting out more than 8.5 petaflops of sustained computing performance, the Argonne National Lab's MIRA supercomputer is among the most powerful.
View ArticleNew material could lead to longer-lasting batteries
Researchers have taken a step forward in developing batteries that can store 10 times more energy than existing lithium-ion batteries.
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