This article is part of the Five Essential Strategies for Successful HPC Clusters series which was written to help managers, administrators, and users deploy and operate successful HPC cluster ...

Today Bright Computing announced that the latest version of its Bright Cluster Manager software, version 7.1, is now integrated with Dell’s 13th generation PowerEdge server portfolio. The integration ...

High-performance computing (HPC) for the past ten years has been dominated by thousands of Linux servers connected by a uniform networking infrastructure. The defining theme for an HPC cluster lies in ...

We often focus on the largest high performance computing deployments but a bulk of real enterprise HPC workloads happen in far less sophisticated environments, albeit with applications that still the ...

The largest bulk and cost of a modern high-performance computing (HPC) installation involves the acquisition or provisioning of many identical systems, interconnected by one or more networks, ...

As costs drop and use cases multiply, high performance computing is attracting new adopters of all types and sizes. Expanding options include supercomputer-based HPC systems, cluster-based HPC, and ...

Originally supporting a single faculty member in a single department, the Bowdoin HPC environment now supports faculty and students across a variety of disciplines, including biology, chemistry, ...

The build versus buy argument for high performance computing clusters has gathered steam lately, in part because some of the critical missing pieces both performance and software ecosystem-wise are ...

Microsoft is making available to customers as of December 14 the next version of its high-performance-computing (HPC) software, known as HPC Pack 2012. (As part of its move to simplify and reduce the ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...