E4 Computer Engineering, an Italian manufacturer of hardware solutions for high performance and data centre computing, made their first orders for Cavium Inc.'s ThunderX-based ARKA servers. E4 Computer Engineering specializes in the production and architectural integration of complete and customized solutions, for environments ranging from high performance computing to design of turn-key data centres. E4 HPC customers include leaders such as CERN and ENEA, where they have delivered solutions for workloads ranging from processing data from CERN's Large Hadron Collider to wave modelling in the Mediterranean Sea. Read further...

International graduate-level research university, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has selected a Spectra Logic TFinity Tape Library. The Spectra Logic system forms part of a Cray Inc. Tiered Adaptive Storage (TAS) open archive solution for Big Data and supercomputing. Read further...

Bright Computing, a provider of hardware-agnostic cluster and Cloud management software, has introduced the latest version of its Bright Cluster Manager software is now integrated with the Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre (IEEL) software. Systems administrators can easily deploy, use and maintain Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre using Bright. Because Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre metrics and diagnostics are included, admins have access to a comprehensive view of Lustre file systems, servers, and clients as managed resources through Bright's GUI. Read further...

Cavium Inc., a provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data centre, Cloud, wired and wireless networking, has made available the Beta release of PathScale's optimized compiler and library software for the ThunderX ARMv8-A processor family. Read further...

Cavium Inc., a provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data centre, Cloud, wired and wireless networking, has added support for SanDisk flash memory solutions with Cavium’s 64-bit ThunderX processor family, to accelerate the performance of Hyperscale and HPC workloads. Read further...

Industrial simulations company, EURO/CFD, has chosen to deploy Bright technology as part of its pioneering new HPC infrastructure, which will be delivered by Bright partner, transtec. Read further...

At the 2015 International Supercomputing Conference in Frankfurt, Germany, Cray Inc. has been awarded a contract to provide a Cray XC40 supercomputer to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). This contract marks the first ever Cray supercomputer to be installed at TACC. Read further...

Server and storage solutions provider, 2CRSI has launched two new products revealing its most advanced, most dense storage solutions, ever - the 2U24NVMe and NVMe Express. The hardware will be unveiled at the ISC High Performance 30th annual conference in Frankfurt, Germany. Read further...

SGI, a global expert in high-performance solutions for compute, data analytics and data management, will extend the availability of the new Intel Xeon v3 processors across its SGI UV line of scale-up in-memory supercomputers, enabling customers to solve complex problems at greater scale, reduce overhead costs, and accelerate time to results. The integration of the latest Intel Xeon product families will be incorporated into two principal products, the new SGI UV 3000 and enhanced SGI UV 300. Read further...

Cavium Inc., a provider of data centre solutions, has signed a collaboration with Mellanox Technologies, a supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions for extreme scale computing, data centre server and storage systems to deliver InfiniBand connectivity for Cavium's ThunderX processor family. Read further...

Cavium Inc., a provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data centre, Cloud, wired and wireless networking, is demonstrating ThunderX based workload optimized server platforms for high performance computing (HPC) and hyperscale data centres at the International Supercomputing Conference till Wednesday, July 15th in Frankfurt, Germany. Read further...

Sheffield-based liquid cooling company, Iceotope, has developed the first fan-less Mellanox-based InfiniBand and Ethernet high-performance network and interconnect switch for High Performance Computing (HPC). Combined with Iceotope's technology, Mellanox's high-performance, low latency switches can now be cooled with hot water (of up to 45C), enabling chiller-less operation in all climates, with absolutely no airflow, and significant efficiency benefits. Read further...

Altair has announced a new High-Performance Computing (HPC) Cloud Challenge utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Intel technologies to demonstrate the benefits of leveraging the Cloud for large-scale design exploration in the area of computer-aided engineering (CAE). Read further...

At the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) 2015 and following the opening of the company's first global High Performance Computing (HPC) centre in Stuttgart in March 2015, Lenovo will be reaffirming its commitments and ambitions in the high-performance computing sector with a number of new partnerships and initiatives that underpin its position as an expert on the world stage of HPC. These include joining Intel's code modernisation enablement programme and adopting Intel's HPC scalable system framework for future products; a new partnership with Mellanox to accelerate the adoption of EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand interconnect and server technology; SuperMUC Phase 2 now operational at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, and investments in supporting young talent in the HPC Advisory Council ISC 2015 Student Cluster Competition. Read further...

IBM along with NVIDIA and two U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories has opened a pair of Centers of Excellence for supercomputing - one at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the other at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The collaborations are in support of IBM's supercomputing contract with the U.S. Department of Energy. They will enable advanced, large-scale scientific and engineering applications both for supporting DOE missions, and for the Summit and Sierra supercomputer systems to be delivered respectively to Oak Ridge and Lawrence Livermore in 2017 and to be operational in 2018. Read further...

Cray Inc. has strengthened its Lustre and overall storage and data management expertise with the addition of key individuals from Terascala, a Boston-based storage company highly regarded for developing easy-to-use and easy-to-manage storage solutions. Read further...

HP has signed a High Performance Computing (HPC) alliance with Intel Corporation created to advance customer innovation and help expand accessibility of HPC to enterprises of all sizes. To increase accessibility of HPC, the companies will launch a new Center of Excellence (CoE), which is designed to bring a community of experts from both companies to support customers in planning, developing, deploying and managing HPC solutions. Read further...