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• HPE to buy supercomputer maker in US$1.3B deal

  HPE is set to acquire s​upercomputer manufacturer Cray in a deal valued at about US$1.3 billion.

• ​Deloitte, Cray launch supercomputer-driven threat analytics service

  Deloitte Advisory Cyber Risk Services and Cray have launched what they claim to be the first commercially available supercomputing threat analytics service.

• BoM to rollout $77M supercomputer and storage

  The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) will spend $77 million on a Cray supercomputer and storage system it claims will deliver more accurate weather forecasts and warnings across the country.
  

• China retains supercomputing crown in latest Top 500 ranking

  A supercomputer developed by China's National Defense University remains the fastest publically known computer in the world while the U.S. is close to an historic low in the latest edition of the closely followed Top 500 supercomputer ranking, which was published on Monday.

• US challenges China in supercomputing race with upcoming 180-petaflop system

  To get an edge over China in the supercomputing arms race, the U.S. plans to build a 180-petaflop supercomputer that will be used mainly for scientific research.

• NOAA's next supercomputer will be a Cray-IBM hybrid system

  On Jan. 14, the U.S. upgraded its main weather forecasting model, which subsequently did a very good job in predicting the track of last week's East Coast blizzard. It correctly predicted that heavier snows would be east of New York City, even as the official weather forecast -- based on a mix of computer models -- had the city getting buried in two feet of snow.

• Weather forecasting made (slightly) easier with updated NOAA system

  To better anticipate the next Sandy-size hurricane, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is upgrading the supercomputers it uses for predicting the weather.

• NOAA is beefing up its forecasting computers to 5 petaflops

  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will increase its computing power by ten-fold this year to a total of 5 petaflops worth of computing power, creating one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, <a href="http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2015/20150105_supercomputer.html">the agency announced this week</a>.

• Top500 Supercomputer race loses momentum

  Once a seething cauldron of competition, the twice-yearly Top500 listing of the world's most powerful supercomputers has grown nearly stagnant of late.

• Cray aims to stay in big leagues with XC40 supercomputers

  Cray has added more horsepower to its latest supercomputer, the XC40, and already has scored some big-time customers.

• Welcome to the age of pervasive supercomputing

  Human beings tend to take incremental change in stride. For example, the loaf of bread that was 50 cents a few decades ago that now costs $3 isn't a big deal to us because the price rose gradually and steadily year by year. What we aren't adapted for is exponential change. Which explains why we tend to be taken by surprise by developments that involve digital technologies, where order-of-magnitude improvements, driven by Moore's Law, occur continuously.

• US chases supercomputing crown with multipetaflop Trinity system

  Stepping up its efforts to regain supercomputing dominance from China, the U.S. within the next two years will activate what could be one of the world's fastest computers.

• ISC: Cray makes Lustre palatable for storage administrators

  Supercomputer vendor Cray is trying to make the Lustre file system easier to work with, allowing users to copy material from the file system into a multilayered storage archiving system.

• SC13: Top 500 shows growing inequality in supercomputing power

  Supercomputing power is being concentrated in a smaller number of machines, according to the latest Top 500 list of high-performance computers. Keepers of the list are uncertain how to parse that trend.

• Cray brings Hadoop to supercomputing

  Helping scientific supercomputing take advantage of emerging big-data technologies, high-performance computing manufacturer Cray is releasing a set of packages promising to optimize the process of running Hadoop on the company's XC30 machines.