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NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 4.1 has just been officially introduced, meaning that life has become a little easier for everyone who relies on GPU computing in their research.
Now that GPU accelerators have become a relatively important part of the HPC (high-performance computing) market, NVIDIA has a very good reason to dev... |
27 January 2012
09:30 GMT |
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Quantum computers are seen by many as the next big step towards faster systems of all sorts, but they aren't exactly easy or affordable to build, not yet.
Now, though, a group of Air Force and Florida Atlantic University researchers have finally come up with a way to create them with off-the-shelf components. ... |
21 December 2011
03:43 GMT |
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By some strange coincidence, HP's announcement that webOS was going open-source has been followed by NVIDIA making a similar announcement about its CUDA development platform. At least, that is to say that NVIDIA has released the source code for the NVIDIA CUDA LLVM-based compiler. This compiler is included i... |
14 December 2011
02:35 GMT |
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Supercomputers are all well and good, but it can be tricky to actually get data in need of research to them, so a team from Indiana University set about to make it possible.
Several universities got to test out, during the SC11 conference, particularly the SCinet Research Sandbox (SRS), a network that operated at 1... |
23 November 2011
09:41 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Cloud offers plenty of computing power for customers with super-computing needs to take advantage of.
According to the software giant, applications can be deployed in a high-performance computing infrastructure in the Microsoft Cloud.
The Redmond company is even offering a software development k... |
14 November 2011
08:42 GMT |
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It appears that things have been changing in the supercomputer industry, as the most recent TOP500 list turned out to be one that allowed AMD's advancements to stand out quite visibly.TOP500 is a periodically updated list where the many supercomputers around the world are tested for performance.Advanced Micro D... |
23 June 2011
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Super computers have been getting very strong lately, but it looks like a certain CPU maker wants to take things not one, but several steps higher, all the way to an ExaFLOP by the end of the decade.While a certain Santa Clara, California-based CPU maker is making new ULV chips, its other divisions are making progre... |
21 June 2011
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GPU computing modules have already proven themselves as more than competent assets for use in supercomputers, and it looks like NVIDIA's Tesla line have found a place in a certain Russian conglomerate that is about to be upgraded.Some problems that humanity is faced with, like diseases, the environment's d... |
15 June 2011
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One would have definitely heard about how today was the day when NVIDIA was going to release a new video card, but it looks like the GeForce GTX 560 isn't the only adapter to grace the world with its presence, as the Tesla series also saw some movement.NVIDIA may be best known for all its consumer graphics prod... |
17 May 2011
09:56 GMT |
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After releasing the ESC4000 2U quad-SLI Tesla server at the end of last week, Asus is continuing its assault on the high-performance computing market with the introduction of a new 2U system that can pack up to eight Intel six-core Xeon processors and as much as 384GB of DDR3 memory.The new server is called the RS724... |
22 April 2011
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SGI's high performance computing solutions seem to have gained quite a bit of ground recently as the company has announced that it just sold yet another HPC system, this time to the Korean Air Force's 73rd Weather Group, that will be used for producing long-term weather forecasts.The Altix ICE 8400 system t... |
25 March 2011
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Normally, when thinking project Titan, one might think of myths or supersized robots of doom, or both, but in this case, the subject of discussion is a supercomputer, one that is set to be the strongest ever created.While they were a rarity at one point in the past, supercomputers can be said to exist in droves now,... |
24 March 2011
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Lately, there have been many debates going on about the role of ARM-based processors in the server world, so researchers at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich have started building the first ever cluster powered by ARM CPUs using AppleTV devices.
The team is comprised of five scientists from the Ludwig-Maximi... |
21 March 2011
16:01 GMT |
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PSSC Labs has just announced the introduction of the PowerServe Duo T2000 machine that is designed so that it offers two complete and independent servers in just 1U of rack space, a characteristic that makes it ideal for being deployed in high performance cluster environments. Each server is totally independent since... |
21 March 2011
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General purpose GPU solution have gained quite a bit of ground in the high performance computing market as numerous companies have started developing such solutions, and XCT is the latest outfit to join them with their recently announced XtremeReality Platform that can pack up to eight Nvidia Tesla GPUs.
The machi... |
18 March 2011
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Russia's first petaflop capable supercomputer just came into operation at the Rosatom Nuclear Energy State Corporation in Sarov. The machine has a sustained performance of 780 teraflops, making it the 12th-fastest system in the world in an unofficial Supercomputer TOP500 list.
Apart from its performances not... |
11 March 2011
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Tyan, a company well renowned for its high-quality and high-performance server and workstation motherboards, has announced the introduction of a new G34 quad-socket motherboard, which is compatible with AMD's latest 6100-series Opteron processors, as well as a new barebone server system.
Dubbed the S8812WGM3N... |
16 February 2011
05:28 GMT |
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High performance computers have surely managed to achieve impressive performance levels, but experts in the industry state there is still a lot more room for such solutions to grow, recent reports suggesting the first 100-petaflop systems could be built in just six years from now, while the first exascale supercomput... |
10 February 2011
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Fujitsu seems to think that 10 years was a period long enough to stay out of the global supercomputer market, so it began to negotiate with European partners about exporting installations based on the K computer.Until about 10 years ago, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices had not yet created the Pentium Pro, Pentium I... |
29 December 2010
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Since there is a constant search for better high-performance computers, IBM decided to start working on its newest supercomputer, one that is set to be based in the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in Garching, Germany.
Currently, the most powerful supercomputer in existence, constructed with both microprocess... |
18 December 2010
04:47 GMT |
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Although nobody can deny the fact that specially built graphics processing cards, such as Nvidia's Tesla or AMD's FireStream lines, offer the best performance level in HPC applications these solutions are usually too expensive for most companies to consider, so RenderStream developed a HPC system that drops... |
1 December 2010
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It seems that Analysts are under the impression that Intel may have to sign a new agreement with NVIDIA in order to be allowed to use their patents, as its chances of successfully competing against AMD on the market for HPC accelerators may be too low otherwise.With all the so-called 'battles' happening be... |
30 November 2010
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In today's highly environmentally conscious world it isn't enough for supercomputers to be extremely powerful, they also have to be green, so IBM has certainly reasons to brag about their high performance computers being crowned as the most energy efficient in the world, according to the latest Supercomputi... |
23 November 2010
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Intel recently demonstrated the development platform for high-performance computing accelerators, known as Knights Ferry, but NVIDIA does not seem to be too worried about the progress said chip giant appears to be making.Basically, Intel has been trying to create an HPC-only accelerator, one that is supposed to perf... |
19 November 2010
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Since it has, more or less, already seen to the needs of the consumer and professional markets, NVIDIA is now saying its piece on the HPC front as well, apparently even being set on powering supercomputers with performance levels of several PetaFLOPS.As consumers probably know, NVIDIA has several lines of products b... |
2 October 2010
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Fujitsu has announced its intention to create the so-called “K computer', a HPC system intended to have a performance about five times that of the Jaguar, the currently most powerful supercomputer in the world.Since solving the mysteries of our planet and the universe always involves very high computing c... |
29 September 2010
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Microsoft has scheduled the official launch of its next generation Windows for supercomputers for the week of September 20, 2010. Next week, the Redmond company will officially ship Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, with a series of events planned. Softpedia readers already know that the successor of Windows HPC Server 2... |
13 September 2010
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HPC world-class player SGI, along with Intel, recently announced that they are partnering with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in order to come up with a new computing architecture for supercomputing, which essentially means that NVIDIA has its work cut out for it.NVIDIA has long been advocatin... |
16 August 2010
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NVIDIA has been, for some time, going on about the benefits that GPU computing modules can bring to High-Performance Computing applications. Several supercomputers that employ the massive parallel processing capabilities of such solutions have already emerged. Now, apparently intrigued by the possibilities offered b... |
10 August 2010
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While it is busy coming up with better and less power-hungry central processing units for the consumer front, Intel is, naturally, also making sure to progress on the server and HPC (high-performance computing) markets as well. Thus, the Santa Clara, California-based company has been tirelessly working on its more o... |
9 August 2010
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Microsoft has made available for download a new version of its Windows operating systems for supercomputers. The Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Suite Evaluation is now up for grabs via the Microsoft Download Center, with little information available from the Redmond company on just what does this release brings to the ta... |
23 July 2010
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NVIDIA has, for a while, been aggressively marketing the benefits of the massive parallel processing capabilities of graphics processing units (GPUs). This has led to the creation of certain HPC (High-Performance Computing) installations that employ GPU computing modules. Still, CPUs (central processing units) conti... |
23 July 2010
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Now that the IT industry is on a rebound, all companies hope to make the best of things and even believe they may strengthen their position if they manage to influence the direction taken by certain segments. NEC Corp., for instance, hopes to tighten its grip on the supercomputer segment, and intends to use the grow... |
10 July 2010
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The big problem with supercomputers is that they use a great deal of energy. As such, companies that set up high-performance computing (HPC) installations do their best to reduce the environment footprint as much as they can. Even more unusual plans, such as using cow manure as a power source, have cropped up over th... |
5 July 2010
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AMD believes that the IT industry is nearing a stage where HPCs (high-performance computers) will need to adopt a new type of configuration if they hope to keep getting stronger and more efficient. At present, many supercomputers are exclusively powered by x86 processors. Nevertheless, GPU computing modules have alr... |
26 June 2010
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No doubt the majority of end-users aren't especially concerned with anything besides the consumer-oriented and, perhaps, business-aimed products that PC makers and hardware suppliers deal in. As such, consumers aren't exactly likely to know of the latest events in such areas as data center market or HPC (hi... |
23 June 2010
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The Larrabee might be dead but the technology that almost spawned it definitely isn't. This is what Intel confirmed today while at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany. Though the GPU itself will never make it to market, the part can still be adapted for use in high-performance computi... |
31 May 2010
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Like all the segments of the IT industry, supercomputers have come a long way over the years. They have reached computational power beyond what people dared to dream a couple of decades ago. Additionally, those that create such clusters have begun experimenting with different approaches, such as GPU computing, while ... |
31 May 2010
05:58 GMT |
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A new major development milestone of the next iteration of Microsoft’s Windows for supercomputers is now available for download. Early adopters interested in test-driving the latest build of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 need to join the Beta program on Microsoft Connect. This is the second Beta of Windows HPC Ser... |
8 April 2010
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At the moment, in the world, there are only two supercomputers capable of operating at over one PetaFLOPS performance, the Roadrunner (1.042) and the Jaguar (1.76), the latter currently being the strongest Supercomputer on the Top500 list. This superpowered duo, however, is likely to become a trio this year, now that... |
15 March 2010
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In mid-November 2009, Microsoft unveiled the first public testing build of its next generation of Windows for supercomputers. Based on the evolution of Windows Server, Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 has been available for download for almost two months, with the company also offering additional resources to help early ad... |
4 January 2010
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Supercomputers are generally large collections of processors that work simultaneously on solving complex problems, such as disease cures, global warming, natural-phenomenon analyses, and so on. Naturally, the higher the combined computing power, the faster the solution is found. IBM's Power7 microprocessor, whic... |
8 December 2009
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We already know that IBM, although it didn't get the top position in the Top500 list this time around, did hold the number-one position with its Roadrunner for quite a while. Additionally, the company got the top position in the Green500 list (really, 18 out of the top 20 were IBM stations). Based on these facts... |
24 November 2009
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Last week Microsoft made available for download the first public testing Build of the next iteration of its Windows for supercomputers operating system. Following the release of the first Beta development milestone for Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, the Redmond company is now offering customers interested in running its... |
24 November 2009
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The Quantum Chromodynamics Parallel Computing on the Cell (QPACE) is a German research supercomputer used in elementary particle physics simulations, mostly aimed at research in the area of quantum chromodynamics (QCD, which describes, for instance, how protons are composed of quarks and gluons). The system is a four... |
21 November 2009
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Because of fundamental differences in the architecture of operating systems today, multi-platform applications have to be tailored to each specific OS on their own, as they won’t work by simply compiling the source code which was developed for a certain platform on all alternatives available. Unix and Windows ... |
20 November 2009
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Following its OEM agreement with TMS, NextIO extended the reach of its advanced I/O technology to another world-famous hardware manufacturer, IBM. Set to provide IBM iDataPlex customers with reconfigurable and on-demand GPU computing capabilities, this collaboration, announced at the Supercomputing 2009 show in Portl... |
19 November 2009
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In tune with its plans to join NEC in the development of HPC-aimed Xeon processors, Intel means to make as strong an impact as it can in the supercomputing industry. Intel revealed its intention to launch the HPC-aimed Nehalem-EX central processing unit at Supercomputing 2009 in Portland, Oregon. The leading develop... |
18 November 2009
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Microsoft has made available for download the first Beta build of its next generation of Windows for supercomputers. The Redmond company announced at Supercomputing 2009 the immediate availability of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Beta, the successor of the pain vanilla Windows HPC Server 2008, as the official moniker im... |
17 November 2009
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Santa Clara, California-based Intel, the world's leading vendor of computer processors, has recently announced that it will update its portfolio with a new platform, specifically designed to meet the performance-requirements of scientists, researchers, and engineers. The new HPC (high performance computing) pla... |
16 November 2009
07:03 GMT |
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