High-Performance Computing

Pi and the edge of computer science

The never-ending number has led to ingenious algorithms used to calculate it with precision, in the process expanding the boundaries of what computers can do.

  • By William Jackson

Hadoop cuts big data down to size

The open-source software has unmatched analytical chops, but it is hardly a free ride.

  • By John Zyskowski

Technology R&D needed to keep edge in innovation, House panel hears

Witnesses testifying before the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education emphasize importance of tech R&D.

  • By Camille Tuutti

The supercomputer race

Asia, the United States and Europe are neck-and-neck-and-neck in supercomputing power.

  • By FCW Staff

IBM's Watson breaks new ground in artificial intelligence

Playing "Jeopardy!" was just the first step. Watson represents a broadened set of frontiers for human-machine interaction.

  • By Henry Kenyon

Administration wants millions to expand payment ineligibility portal

The Obama Administration has asked Congress for $10 million to expand and enhance VerifyPayment.gov to avoid $50 billion in improper federal payments.

  • By FCW Staff

Federal 100: Joseph F. Klimavicz

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  • By Dan Rowinski

What is ... the computer that cheated at 'Jeopardy!'?

A supercomputer won a trivia contest against two human champions. But how impressive is that?

  • By Michael Hardy

Federal IT funds for R&D misused, group says

A report released today by an advisory panel says only a fraction of the estimated $4 billion federal agencies get for IT research and development actually goes for those purposes.

  • By Alysha Sideman

IBM supercomputer to challenge humans on 'Jeopardy'

IBM will put its natural-language processing research to the test this fall, when its Watson supercomputer goes up against human players on "Jeopardy."

  • By Kevin McCaney

Supercomputer tapped for 3D models of oil spill

The National Science Foundation has made an emergency allocation of 1 million compute-hours on a supercomputer used at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas to create 3-D models of the spreading oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

  • By GCN Staff

Air Force math: 2,000 PlayStation 3s = 1 supercomputer

Air Force builds a supercomputer with Sony PlayStation 3 video game consoles.

  • By John Zyskowski

PlayStations power Air Force 'supercomputer'

The Air Force Research Laboratory has built a supercomputer that is driven in part by several hundred Sony PlayStation 3 consoles.

  • By William Welsh
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Bill would fund DHS data center consolidation

A Senate Appropriations Committee subcommittee today approved a bill that would give DHS "significant" money to continue its data center consolidation program.

  • By Ben Bain

Bill would boost computer R&D

Legislation in the House would require a strategy for federal research and development efforts in high-performance computing.

  • By Ben Bain

NOAA to get supercomputers, satellites

The agency's list of projects includes funding for weather satellites and climate-data supercomputers.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Federal 100 winner: Mark Seager

As director of the Advanced Simulation and Computing Program, Seager launched a partnership between the federal government and the private sector that led to the Hyperion Collaboration, a first-of-its-kind consortium that provides a test bed for high-performance computing.