Researchers  at Georgia Tech, the University of South Carolina, and the Pennsylvania State University have been employing Petascale Supercomputing Grids to analyze the evolution of organelles among organisms and study the evolutionary history. We’ve all known for several years now that the chimpanzees also share 96 ...

Ireland's most powerful computer was installed in three hours and powered up in just one day, thanks to a rapidly deployable computing platform from Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI).  The installation was carried out at Irish Centre for High-Performance Computing, new SGI Altix ICE system powers climate change and life sciences research....

IBM's Blue Gene project has resulted in a new frontier in the Super computing arena.  Blue Gene systems are being employed by scientists and researchers worldwide to find solutions and run applications for the benefit of the mankind.   Blue Gene systems are being extensively used to find out the mysteries behind Protein folding and  Molecular Dynamics....

The new Roadrunner supercomputer is the first such machine capable of executing more than 1 quadrillion (1,000 trillion) floating point operations per second, a computation rate otherwise known as 1 petaflop. Roadrunner - IBM's latest offing in the Super Computer arena tops the Top500 Super Computing list.  The 32nd edition of the list of the world’s TOP500 supercomputers was released on ...