Desktop supercomputers give individual users control over compute power to run applications locally at will.

Open source software and tools, the Beowulf Project, and communities change d  the face of high-performance computing.

This first article of a series looks at the forces that have driven desktop supercomputing, beginning with the history of PC and supercomputing processors through the 1990s into the early 2000s.

We talk with Michael Wong and Matthijs van Waveren about the latest developments surrounding the OpenMP ARB consortium.

We’ll show you around some of the tools you need for rolling out your own high-performance cluster.