A computer cluster consisting of 1,100 Apple Computer Inc. Power Mac G5 desktops that were purchased online and connected together in a matter of weeks by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State ...

Decades before "big data" and "the cloud" were a part of our everyday lives and conversations, a custom computer cluster based at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ...

At least that’s the idea behind the Bit-Brick Cluster K1. Real-world performance will obviously vary depending on the task. But for applications that support parallel processing, this cluster board ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- When engineers conduct research on groundwater, the water that flows beneath Earth's surface, they usually think of "large-scale" as one watershed -- an area of land where all of the ...

Technology designed to blast aliens in computer games is part of a new GPU (graphics processing units) computer cluster that will process research data thousands of times faster and more efficiently ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University, with a $3.6 million gift from Sun Microsystems, is giving recycled PCs new life as a computer cluster that makes high-performance computing power available in ...