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Improving multicore processing performance requires not only more processor cores, but additional memory and communications bandwidth that scale with the number of cores added.

The HPC industry needs more engineers and scientists comfortable with high processor count computing. We have the technology, industries hungry for talent and the academic infrastructure. What's missing? Accessible labs aimed specifically at instruction and free-form exploration.

Two universities--the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)--will be installing high-performance computing systems from SiCortex.

Officials at Maynard-based SiCortex Inc., a maker of low-power, high-performance computing systems, report that while it had a successful 2008 selling its machines in the North American market, 2009 has seen the company’s first penetration into Europe.

The supercomputing world is one of giant government labs, big machines and speeds measured in hundreds of trillions of calculations per second. But a new company called SiCortex is trying to bring the benefits of high-performance computing to smaller enterprises and research groups, particularly those worried about the rising cost of electricity.