Appro, a leading provider of supercomputing solutions, has recently announced a new product that has been specifically designed to combine the performance capabilities of NVIDIA's Tesla GPUs with the features and performance of Intel's latest Nehalem-based Xeon processors. The new solution, dubbed Appro Hyp... |
19 May 2009
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IBM announced last weekend that it had managed to break down the supercomputing's petaflop barrier with its RoadRunner system, which is capable of processing more than one thousand trillion (one quadrillion) sustained floating-point operations per second. Now, it is time for supercomputer developers to turn thei... |
10 June 2008
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System manufacturer Bull is reportedly working on a top-notch supercomputer, built around 1080 8-core Nehalem processors. The amount of simultaneous execution threads may be overwhelming, but the big news is that the supercomputer will feature 96 GPU cores delivered by Nvidia itself.Currently known as the Bull NovaSc... |
23 April 2008
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Supercomputers could be able to create extremely detail-rich virtual realities, that are strikingly similar to the ones presented in The Matrix. Researcher Michael McGuigan claims that extremely powerful supercomputers could be able to render virtual worlds that are so accurate that they can be mistaken for the real ... |
4 April 2008
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Despite the fact that Intel said during the pre-IDF briefing that there will be no future updates regarding the Larrabee project during the event, Pat Gelsinger came loaded with other juicy details regarding the multi-core behemoth.According to him, the current graphics architecture will fall into oblivion, no matter... |
2 April 2008
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Supercomputing company Interactive Supercomputing has introduced a less than usual service that lets users tap into a supercomputer for a small fee. Since total ownership costs for a machine rigged with hundreds of cores would bring any average user to bankruptcy, buying supercomputing time seems the only acceptable ... |
1 April 2008
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It seems like thinking big is pretty outdated these days and if you want to keep up with the trend you must go giant: Intel's two billion transistors on a single processor or Sun's 16-core chip are the supportive evidence. However, nothing compares to IBM's initiative, that is neither big, nor huge - i... |
6 February 2008
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Server expert IBM and networking specialist Cisco have jointly announced the opening of a High-Performance Computing (HPC) Center, as an extension of IBM's already existing Montpellier HPC Center.The new facility will be used by the companies' customers and business partners for testing or benchmarking anal... |
22 January 2008
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A group of ten MIT students and staff members have taken part today in an experiment meant to power a computer using non-conventional energy sources. The experiment took place in the lobby of MIT's Stata Clara computing campus and demonstrated that computers can be powered using stationary bicycles. Five bikes h... |
21 December 2007
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The Redmond company announced the next move designed to step up its supercomputing game. In this sense, Microsoft announced that supercomputing expert Daniel A. Reed, the current director of the Renaissance Computing Institute will be joining the company. It is not a coincidence that in the background, Microsoft Rese... |
9 November 2007
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