NASA has selected the next-generation SGI® ICE high performance computing platform to extend the computational capability of the Pleiades supercomputer, operated by the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division at Ames Research Center. The expansion will take place in the first quarter of 2012, and will include the latest Carlsbad 3.0 infrastructure, power and cooling technology, future Intel? Xeon? processor E5 Romley family, and an FDR dual-plane, hypercube-topology InfiniBand? network. Read More