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Today, HPC is applied in just about every industry you can imagine, from manufacturing and biotechnology, right through to nuclear physics and the discovery of gas and oil. But what factors are driving HPC demand and which businesses are leveraging its power?

Addition of Lenovo technology to solution enables workloads to be deployed closer to where data is generated London, UK – Jan. 28, 2021 – Avnet (Nasdaq: AVT), Schneider Electric and Iceotope have been joined by Lenovo to deploy its Lenovo ThinkSystem SR670 servers in a highly scalable, GPU-rich, liquid-cooled micro data center solution. Sealed at… Read More

Graphics chipmaker Nvidia has said it plans to build Britain’s fastest supercomputer that healthcare researchers can use to work on medical problems including Covid-19.

Nvidia, based in Santa Clara, California, said it will spend £40 million on the supercomputer, dubbed Cambridge-1, which will consist of 80 Nvidia systems and is expected to be online by the end of the year.

HPC specialist Hive Blockchain is partnering with cooling experts EcoCooling to develop environmentally friendly High-Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure.

The two companies partnered as part of EcoCooling’s involvement in the Boden Type Data Centre (BTDC) project, an award-winning EU initiative researching data centre efficiency.

The BTDC pilot project, in Boden, Northern Sweden, utilises a range of techniques, processes and equipment developed by a pan-European consortium of members. A prototype constructed in 2019 achieved a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of less than 1.1.

Market Basket is a 102-year-old multi-generational family-owned grocery store company with 80 locations across New England mostly in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. Neil Buckley, Manager of Information Security at Market Basket, speaks of how the company relies on Bitdefender GravityZone Elite with Full-Disk Encryption to protect 6,000 devices which include point of sale (POS)… Read More