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    Researchers build full Itanium support into software that can be used to assemble supercomputers out of clusters of Linux computers.

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    The Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC) and SGI Australia have signed a supercomputing deal designed to increase the nation's understanding of issues such as climate change and the origin of galaxies.

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    Academics once picked up on AMD's processors for supercomputing because they were inexpensive and performed well. But while the chips continue to conquer more of the desktop market, their attractiveness for supercomputers may have dimmed.

  • SuSE tailors Linux for Itanium

    German Linux seller SuSE has unveiled a version of the open-source operating system tailored for Intel's Itanium chip.

  • Intel buys cluster-computing software

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    Big Blue begins a new program to rent out processing power on its own supercomputers by signing up a petrochemical company as a first customer.

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    A group of researchers have found a way to transfer the equivalent of three DVDs per second.

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  • Itanium gets supercomputing software

    Researchers build full Itanium support into software that can be used to assemble supercomputers out of clusters of Linux computers.

  • Intel gets inside life sciences

    Intel says its processors are behind efforts to find new breakthroughs in life sciences research and healthcare in a number of countries.

  • SuSE tailors Linux for Itanium

    German Linux seller SuSE has unveiled a version of the open-source operating system tailored for Intel's Itanium chip.

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