"Mainframes and Supercomputers" news, interviews, and features

News about Mainframes and Supercomputers

• IBM's Watson shows up for work at Cedars-Sinai's cancer center

  Physicians could get advice from Watson in seconds

• Russia building 10-petaflop supercomputer

  Like Europe and China, Russia is developing an exascale plan that aims to be less dependent on U.S. technology

• China beefs up its HPC training

  Nvidia also opens up the Cuda platform

• U.S. HPC Lead in Danger

  The DOE's exascale program is stalled, and its prospects appear bleak at a time of budget-cutting fever.

• Automotive supplier doubles in size after adopting HPC

  National effort aims to make high performance computing available to manufacturing firms

• Five reasons the U.S. tech lead is in danger

  While Congress focuses on budget cutting, other nations are figuring out what to spend on the next computing platforms

Features about Mainframes and Supercomputers

• A daughter follows her father into a mainframe career

  Kristine Harper, 27, grew up getting inside knowledge about mainframe computers -- and their career potential