by agleites | May 18, 2010 | High Performance Computing, Tech & Innovation
HPCwire featured an article last week about how supercomputers are helping to produce an economical battery for the next generation of electric cars. According to the article, a new type of rechargeable battery is being developed that will rival the current standard...
by agleites | May 12, 2010 | Graphics Computing, Tech & Innovation
NVIDIA, a maker of GPUs, reports that it has launched AMBER 11, a new version of a program that is frequently used by scientists to aid in the discovery of new medicine. This version of the program is optimized for GPUs, allowing scientists to use private workstation...
by agleites | May 11, 2010 | Graphics Computing
To continue our series about HPC (high-performance computing) in general and GPUs (graphics-processing units) in particular, I will write today about a real-life application of GPU technology in business. NVIDIA blog has an interesting mini-case study about how one...
by agleites | May 10, 2010 | Graphics Computing, Tech & Innovation
Just over the weekend, I have discovered (through my RSS feeds) fascinating new uses for GPU computing. I thought I would describe one of them in short detail here for your interest (others to come later this week). GPUs have their origin in computer gaming, where...
by agleites | May 7, 2010 | Financial, High Performance Computing
For those following financial news, yesterday was a crazy day on the stock market. Financial markets around the world have already been on a perpetual roller coaster ride because of sagging economic growth in Europe, especially in Greece. But yesterday, the DOW took...
