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Supercomputers can quickly perform complex calculations and thus have become useful in many settings. But they also traditionally require large amounts of energy for their operationsand for cooling.

Our preliminary benchmarks show that we can scale to 4096 processors on the Blue Gene/P and 5832 processors on the SiCortex with high efficiency, and can achieve thousands of tasks/sec sustained execution rates for parallel workloads of ordinary serial applications. We measured applications from two domains, economic energy modeling and molecular dynamics.

Facility costs are often overlooked in the IT investment process. The following table has been developed to present the facility costs for housing, powering and cooling a single $2,500 low-end server in a data center located in an optimal cost location in the U.S.

Maynard-based high performance computing technology developer SiCortex Inc. has appointed former StreamServe Inc. executive Christopher Stone to the post of CEO.

SiCortex announced on Wednesday that they’ve acquired the PathScale compiler technology and team from QLogic. “This will allow PathScale LLC to focus on delivering even greater compiler performance and multicore processor scalability,” said Margaret Lewis, director,Commercial Solutions, AMD. “PathScale remains an important member of the ecosystem of AMD partners who are working with AMD to evolve multicore processing.”