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 ...

Frank Barnet was having epic thoughts when he set about naming his new computer. An associate professor of math at Frostburg State University, he built it over the summer using four Sony PlayStation ...

The future of geo-science technology is expanding as Virginia Tech researchers have been working over the last several months with a computer cluster that simulates the Earth's surface. Within the ...

The "Raj" high-performance computer cluster at Marquette University. Photo courtesy of Marquette University. Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact ...

When black holes crash into each other at the center of a galaxy, the safest place to be is on the other side of the computer simulating the drama. Scientists who study black holes simulate ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new computer cluster has been unveiled by Queen Mary, University of London that will link to a 100,000 processor grid in the UK and around the world. The projects that will be researched include a ...

They have been used to model climate change, forecast economic trends, and simulate the intricate complexities folding proteins. Now IBM has something new in store for high-performance computers: ...

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 ...