A research director at Los Alamos National Laboratories said the addition of a peta-scale supercomputer is as big a leap forward as when scientists got their hands on their first computer ever.

Engineers and technicians at IBM are assembling the final pieces of what they hope will soon become the world's most powerful supercomputer - doubling the speed of the today's fastest machine.

IBM's Blue Gene has retained its position as the most powerful computer in the world.

The German government is to launch D-Grid, an initiative to promote a grid-based communication framework for scientific research, at the Global Grid Forum in Berlin today.

The high-performance computing (HPC) market is unlike any other. Although it is a small, niche market, its influence is powerful and pervasive. In fact, one could argue that it is intrinsically linked to the health of our society from an economic, defense, and public well-being standpoint.