Speaking yesterday at the SC09 international supercomputing conference, in Portland, scientists announced that the Cray XT5 high-performance computing system, also known as the Jaguar supercomputer, had officially become the world's fastest computer. The Jaguar moved far ahead of IBM's Roadrunner, which has... |
17 November 2009
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Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices, the world's second largest vendor of computer processors, has managed to claim the number-one spot in recently updated Top 500 list of the world's most power supercomputers, with its recently introduced Six-Core Opteron processors, codenamed Istanbul. Th... |
16 November 2009
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The TOP500 organization made a classification of the world's currently most advanced supercomputers according to their performance. Although Intel has long contributed to the creation of leading supercomputers, it seems it cannot brag about being the best in this area, that title belonging to none other than Adv... |
16 November 2009
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) will start making thousands of processor hours available to open, unclassified research, at two new supercomputer facilities, starting from 2010. The two machines that will accept independent studies will be Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL) Cray XT system “Jaguar,&rd... |
4 May 2009
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It is a matter of status in Yemen to wear a dagger with rhino horn made handle, or to afford chewing tiger bone penis in China. These customs have put on the brink of extinction those species. Maya rulers made no exception: huge demand for symbolic species explains the decline in big mammals, like jaguars and tapirs,... |
16 November 2007
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LG KG130 has been added one more proof to the tendency of low-end mobile phones selling in a larger number of units than the more evolved ones. Although not the least appealing and with few features, the device seems to be one of the best-sold mobile phones in the UK.In the case of less evolved handset, the low selli... |
2 November 2007
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1.The jaguar's closest relative is not the leopard, as you would have thought due to the spotted coat pattern, but the ...lion!A large European jaguar (Panthera gombaszoegensis) roamed the European Mediterranean and temperate forests 1.5 Ma ago. This cat evolved into a lion and then into a jaguar. The direct anc... |
26 October 2007
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As I was saying a few days ago, the Mac team here, at Softpedia, was challenged to a "duel of operating systems" by those at Windows, who claimed Vista has dethroned the Mac OS as "supreme" operating system. We obviously resent that (as would, of course, any sane human being), and we are now fighting on Mac OS' ... |
14 April 2007
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There are great things on Earth but even greater things can come in when the first ones combine. Having two leading brands which already provide extreme class and quality products combined usually results in something which is easily transcending the usual "top gear".Thus, putting together Jaguar and Bowers & Wilkin... |
10 March 2007
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