Green HPC Firm SiCortex Shutting Down

SiCortex, which specializes in energy-efficient systems for high-performance computing, shut down its engineering operations Wednesday and is selling its assets and intellectual property. The company's customers include the Department of Energy and many major universities.

HPC Wire reports that SiCortex ran out of funding when its venture capital firms balked at additional financing. There's additional coverage from GigaOm, and perspective from SciCortex insiders on blog posts by Jeff Darcy and Matt Reilly.