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ClusterVision, a company specialized in developing high performance compute, storage and database clusters, has announced the opening of a new HPC cluster system at the Technical University of Ilmenau based on Dell’s PowerEdge servers.The resulting HPC cluster consists of 49 Dell PowerEdge R815 servers with AMD... |
16 January 2012
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QLogic has just announced that the company’s high-performance InfiniBand solutions were employed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) inside an Intel Sandy Bridge-E powered cluster that upon completion is expected to become one of the fastest systems of its kind in the world.The cluster, which is kn... |
13 December 2011
05:32 GMT |
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HP may have slammed the IT industry with the decision to change its business outlook, but it did not stop its current projects, such as the one that is set to benefit NVIDIA's supercomputing efforts.GPU computing modules are something that have gained traction on the supercomputing segment, thanks to their high... |
25 August 2011
09:52 GMT |
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High-performance computer builder MEGWARE has just announced that it has been commissioned to build the world's first AMD Opteron cluster based on the ColdCon cooling concept, which can reuse some of the waste heat produced by the system for the heating and cooling of rooms and buildings.The computer will be ins... |
26 July 2011
06:09 GMT |
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Austrian officials have recently held an inauguration ceremony for the Vienna Scientific Cluster 2, VSC-2 for short, which is now listed at number 56 in the TOP500 supercomputer list thanks to its 21,000 AMD Opteron processor cores.Built by the German company Megware, the system is able to deliver 135.6 teraflops of ... |
4 July 2011
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An European mission composed of four satellites flying in formation was nearly lost, but experts in charge of controlling their operations managed to save it at the last moment. However, this took a lot of ingenuity, as well as an unorthodox 'dirty hack.'The mission, called Cluster, became endangered this M... |
30 June 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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For more than a decade, the Cluster constellation of satellites has been keeping an eye on the Sun's influence on our planet, and now, following their anniversary, they will continue to do the same for years to come.Over the past years, the four members of this group have provided researchers with deep insight i... |
2 September 2010
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Experts at the European Space Agency (ESA) recently detailed a new method of producing killer electrons, deadly variants of the common, more “peaceful” type. Based on data collected by the ESA Cluster satellites, the new study seems to suggest that shock waves sent through the solar system by solar storms... |
11 March 2010
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HP and IBM aren't the only companies building supercomputing clusters. SGI has also finished up work on a new installment that will allow the Australian University of Tasmania to research global climate, especially Antarctica's weather phenomena such as the Katabatic hurricane-speed winds, which gave the cl... |
29 December 2009
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The GPU-powered cluster based in Taiwan is about to start its first big assignment at the hands of a research team from the National Taiwan University (NTU). The team will attempt to more closely analyze the behavior of subatomic particles and will be led by Ting-Wai Chiu, physics professor and associate director of ... |
14 December 2009
10:20 GMT |
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Although initially designed to render 3D computer-game scenes, graphics processing units have reached a stage where they are capable of high-speed computing tasks, even being able to take upon themselves part of the CPU's workload. To take advantage of this, the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Or... |
25 November 2009
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Not long after the Cray XT5 “Jaguar” was appointed the most powerful supercomputer, Cray Inc. revealed the new incarnation of the workstation for the next era, namely the Cray CH1-iWS system. More than a simple configuration, the Cray CH1-iWS (iWS stands for integrated Workstation) combines a powerful Mi... |
17 November 2009
09:33 GMT |
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Michael Creel updated today his PelicanHPC Linux distribution to version 1.8, which introduces a couple of improvements, some new tools/features and various bug fixes. PelicanHPC is a Live CD distro based on the Debian mammoth, which aims to simplify the setup of a high-performance computing cluster. Without further ... |
4 February 2009
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A new study performed with the help of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, focused on galaxy clusters, indicated that they are forming at a slower rate than they should be, which is considered a new piece of evidence in the complicated case of dark energy. These results, in tandem with those of previous extensive res... |
17 December 2008
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The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is located approximately 160,000 light years away from our planet, in the southern constellation named Dorado, within Magellan's cloud, and it represents one of the most massive and active star forming places found in the vicinity of our galaxy. Its immense stars g... |
12 December 2008
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Scouring through the northern skies, the Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture a picture of a celestial body that resembles a snow globe. In fact, it is a globular cluster, a celestial formation that comprises over a hundred thousand stars swirling around in a small region of space. This object provides more insi... |
5 December 2008
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The Omega Centauri is the largest glittering jewel that lights up the skies of the south. The behemoth formation that comprises millions of stars is found in the Centaurus constellation, some 17,000 light years away from Earth. It can even be observed directly, with the unaided eye, as it shines at a magnitude of 3.7... |
3 December 2008
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The inner secrets of a pair of the most luminous stars ever discovered are finally revealed. The Hubble Space Telescope was able to take an unprecedentedly high detail picture of the stars in the Carina Nebula, lifting the veil (of gas and dust) from their faces. Much to the surprise of the team of astronomers, the b... |
26 November 2008
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Some gas tendrils between two galaxies indicate that a high-speed collision of the celestial bodies once took place. Scientists look up to this as a possible clue to the reason so many of the galaxies are unable to form new stars.One of the two is the spiral galaxy NGC 4438 situated about 50 million light years away ... |
9 October 2008
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Since the distance between space's bodies is so enormous, astronomers have very hard times counting and measuring all the newly-emerging stars. That's why the H-alpha characteristic signal emitted by the new stars comes as a blessing for those who detect them by telescope. The amount of such rays emitted fr... |
2 October 2008
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The mysterious force that drives the patches of matter at incredible speeds and in uniform directions through space, which can't be explained by comparison to any known gravitational force, and which may also exist outside of the observable universe, was called "dark flow."If you think you already know all there... |
25 September 2008
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Late in the evening of September 19th, people living or traveling north of a line crossing North America will be able to observe the Pleiades star cluster being hidden by our moon. Although the term occultation – which is derived from the Latin "occultatio," meaning hiding – might be new to many of ... |
17 September 2008
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A new 29-teraflop Mac supercomputing cluster, based on 324 Mac Pros, now calls Virginia Tech home. Particularly, the cluster is located at the Center for High-End Computing Systems (CHECS) within the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.According to various reports, the system was allegedly ranked in t... |
22 July 2008
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Apple has released a new firmware update for users of its rack-mount line of server computers. As you would imagine, the Apple Xserve EFI Firmware Update 1.1 is recommended for all Xserve users. It improves the performance and reliability of Xserve computers, according to the Mac makers.Apple's Support page list... |
17 June 2008
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When you turn to the standard Google search page, you are faced with the already famous simple format, on top of which you can see several links. Those links are meant to direct the user to a specialized part of the Google search engine. Among them, you can also find "News", which will forward you to a Google page fe... |
14 May 2008
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LBG-2377 is a galaxy proto-cluster located 11.4 billion light years away from Earth - the most distant galaxies ever observed. In fact, these galaxies are so far away from us, that they appear as they looked when they were in the first days of their lives. Previously, the most distant such galaxy proto-cluster was lo... |
1 April 2008
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The new year will bring researchers at the University of Texas' J.J. Pickle Research Campus a new toy to play with. The "Ranger" is a supercomputer built with Sun Microsystems hardware and powered by AMD quad-core chips. It is scheduled for "going live" in the first day of the next year.The "Ranger" will be the... |
28 December 2007
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Yahoo's supercomputing cluster, codenamed M45, features 4,000 processors, 3 terabytes of random access memory and can do more than 27 trillion calculations per second. It is used to perform search-related tasks on the Internet, such as scanning webpages, caching them or finding a subject then creating indexes. F... |
26 November 2007
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PostgreSQL is an Open Source Software object relational database management system based on POSTGRES 4.2. POSTGRES was developed at the University of California at Berkeley Computer Science Department. The first version PostgreSQL was launched in 1996 and reflected the relationship between the original POSTGRES and t... |
23 August 2007
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Earthquakes are some of the nature's most destructive forces and the main problem about them is that we can't really predict when and where they are going to occur next. Of course, there are fault lines and areas where tectonic activity has been recorded for hundreds of years, but we can't say for sur... |
31 July 2007
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Black holes are space objects which have an immense gravitational field that cuts off a region of space from the rest of the universe, trapping all matter and radiation that enters that region. They are objects with a gravitational field so powerful that a region of space becomes cut off from the rest of the univers... |
25 July 2007
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If you think a black hole is the most energetic event in the Universe, you might want to think again, after you see the surprising X-ray images of the galaxy cluster crashing into one another, images captured by the orbiting X-ray telescopes XXM-Newton and Chandra.The Bullet Cluster is a supermassive cluster resulti... |
18 July 2007
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IBM hosted a "System z Summit" for customers and industry partners and did something almost unheard of in the world of mainframe manufacture and marketing: they published the sales numbers for System z. Even if most computer users never heard of it, much less saw or used one, the old mainframe still has a place in ou... |
12 July 2007
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Astronomers claim to have captured images showing the very first light that appeared in the Universe. Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and a new digital technique, they took a picture of the sky and saw light originating from the first stars that appeared in the Universe, more than 13 billion light-years aw... |
4 July 2007
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The Hubble Space Telescope did it again. It captured a truly amazing picture of what looks like a cosmic display of fireworks, in the dwarf galaxy NGC 4449. A massive starburst shows a wonderful light show in the galaxy and astronomers think it was caused by interaction or merger with a smaller companion.NGC 4449 is... |
3 July 2007
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Open star clusters are among the most important tools for the study of stellar and galactic evolution. The Pleiades are one of these clusters, a young and bright one, dominated by hot blue stars, which have formed within the last 100 million years. The Pleiades' high visibility in the night sky has guaranteed i... |
21 June 2007
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NASA has just released a spectacular photo of thousands of galaxies gathered in a sort of family album. This picture is a symbol of the technology being used by astronomers worldwide to capture a glimpse of the vast universe that surrounds us, and of the progress mankind has made in the last centuries. There are pro... |
19 June 2007
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A new image of the Rosette Nebula shows some remarkable cosmic dust sculptures, full of colors, testimony of the beauty of the universe in its inner working. Rosette Nebula, a nebulosity closely associated with the open cluster NGC 2244. Actually, the open cluster lies within the nebula, and it was discovered by Joh... |
6 June 2007
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Black holes have been known to exist in several environments, like in the center of most galaxies, including our own Milky Way, or created by the collapse of individual stars, and even produced after the collision of two galaxies. So far, little was known about another, stranger type of black hole, that lurks in the ... |
2 June 2007
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A team of astronomers discovered amazing evidence of a brutal disruption in a huge galaxy cluster, a bright arc of ferociously hot gas that extends more than two million light years and must have been produced by one of the most energetic events ever detected.Led by Ralph Kraft of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for ... |
31 May 2007
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New observations of a globular star cluster G1 - a large, bright ball of light in the center of the photograph consisting of at least 300,000 old stars - located in the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), show that it most probably has a midweight black hole at its center. This new find supports the theory that supermassive bla... |
30 May 2007
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A dwarf galaxy is a small galaxy composed of up to several billion stars, a small number compared to our own Milky Way's 200-400 billion stars. These small galaxies frequently orbit around larger galaxies, such as the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy and the Triangulum Galaxy.NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope ... |
29 May 2007
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The spiral galaxy M81 is tilted at an oblique angle to the line of sight and gives a spectacular view of its spiral structure. NASA Hubble Space Telescope sent back the sharpest image ever taken of this "Grand Design" galaxy.Messier 81 (also known as NGC 3031 or Bode's Galaxy) is a spiral galaxy about 12 millio... |
29 May 2007
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It seems physicists around the world are predicting a grim future for our heirs who will want to learn more about space. Presuming that the human race will not survive for a few hundred or thousands of millions of years, it will be impossible for other beings to observe the Universe the way we do it now, from our ga... |
23 May 2007
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A new research is trying to find our Sun's family tree throughout the complex history of the galaxy, by studying its chemical composition. Open clusters could also provide clues concerning the Sun's genealogy.The team, led by Gayandhi De Silva, at the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telesco... |
22 May 2007
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Astronomers have just received infrared images that showed the exact location of a tremendous space collision between two supermassive black holes at the centers of two galaxies merging, 300 million light-years away.New images were taken by Hawaii's Keck II telescope and show the two black holes at the center o... |
18 May 2007
12:36 GMT |
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Talking about being in the right place at the right time, this is exactly what allowed ESA's Cluster spacecraft to make a startling discovery. The Cluster mission is an European Space Agency (ESA) unmanned space mission mission to study the Earth's magnetosphere using four identical spacecraft flying in a ... |
14 May 2007
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Although astronomers believe that dark matter accounts for 25% of the total mass of the Universe, if one asks them how it looks like, he/she will only get a straight face. So far, it does not emit or reflect enough electromagnetic radiation to be observed directly, so its presence can only be inferred from gravitat... |
10 May 2007
03:34 GMT |
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Globular clusters (globulus is Latin for small sphere)have been considered fully explained until recently, when new observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope showed intriguing images that changed the classical perception of this massive star agglomerates.Astronomers have assumed that globular star cluster h... |
2 May 2007
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