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The Top500 list classifies supercomputers according to their maximum computing power (how many flops they are capable of). In parallel, the Green500 list is its complement, measuring the power efficiency of those conglomerates. After this year's second Green500 report, IBM was shown to have preeminence in the ar... |
23 November 2009
10:23 GMT |
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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
04:59 GMT |
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Intel must really be trying to prove its supremacy in computing, because, lately, it has been starting more and more ventures bent on building unparalleled supercomputers. After the very recent announcement that it had teamed up with NEC for the same supercomputing-advancement purpose, the Santa Clara-based enterpris... |
20 November 2009
04:12 GMT |
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Despite the many apocalyptic ideas and films that arose from the idea of machines capable of human-like reasoning, humanity is still doing its best to create a computer capable of thinking for itself. Despite the fact that a self-conscious machinery is not even remotely feasible (yet) with our current level of techno... |
19 November 2009
06:06 GMT |
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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
09:30 GMT |
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HPCs or supercomputers are used in science, medicine and by non-profit organizations and businesses such as oil and gas exploration to speed research and testing. Although four out of five among the top 500 supercomputers have Intel processors inside, the fact that it just barely got the fifth place in the TOP500 lis... |
18 November 2009
08:35 GMT |
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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
09:03 GMT |
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China recently unveiled a military supercomputer that, according to it, would have ranked fourth in the most recent TOP 500 list. This implies that advances in supercomputing technology may actually be made at a faster pace than suspected. For this year's annual supercomputing conference in Portland, Oregon (22n... |
17 November 2009
04:18 GMT |
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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
03:19 GMT |
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Following news of ASUS' supercomputing-focused desktop computer system, it appears that yet another PC vendor has decided to debut its own personal supercomputer. We are talking here about Maingear, a custom PC builder, that has just announced the introduction of its new Shift system. A configurable d... |
3 November 2009
07:50 GMT |
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ASUS, one of the world's leading vendors of computer hardware and consumer-grade computer systems, has recently announced the debut of its first supercomputer, a desktop-sized system that mixes Intel's latest Xeon processors with a number of NVIDIA graphics processors to deliver speeds of up to 1.1 teraflop... |
27 October 2009
06:28 GMT |
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Takumi Maruyama, head of Fujitsu's processor development department, has talked about the company's future plans to build a new supercomputer that could deliver a performance of 10 petaflops. The upcoming system is expected to be ready by early 2011 and will become the world's most powerful supercomput... |
26 August 2009
08:33 GMT |
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According to an updated list of the world's Top 500 fastest computer systems, IBM's powerful Roadrunner supercomputer, installed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, has managed to keep the number-one spot for the second year in a row. The said system was closely followed by Cray's Jaguar supercomput... |
24 June 2009
08:40 GMT |
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Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are not the only operating systems cooking over at Microsoft. The Redmond company is also building the next-generation Windows platform for supercomputers. In fact, the software giant has reached a sufficiently advanced development point with its flavor of Windows for the high-per... |
21 May 2009
12:31 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering a variety of resources focused on its Windows OS for supercomputers centralized in an online destination aimed at developers and IT professionals. The Windows HPC Server 2008 Resource Kit provides a consistent volume of content, from videos to webcasts, to whitepapers and to additional documenta... |
5 May 2009
04:50 GMT |
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ASUS, one of the world's leading vendors of computer motherboards, has recently updated its line of X58-based motherboards with the introduction of the new P6T7 WS SuperComputer model, specifically designed to deliver the necessary performance required by today's high-end desktop workstations. Coming with s... |
30 April 2009
04:08 GMT |
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ASRock has officially rolled out its first Intel X58-based motherboard, which has been specifically built to provide users with a high level of performance. Suggestively dubbed the ASRock X58 SuperComputer, the new board offers support for LGA1366 Core i7 processors and the latest in high-end computer components. Acc... |
25 February 2009
04:10 GMT |
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IBM has just announced that it has signed an agreement that will enable it to build its next-generation BlueGene supercomputers, for the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). IBM is expected to deliver two systems, one of which will be dubbed Sequoia, will provide a performance... |
4 February 2009
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At its Industry Insider Series keynote at the Las Vegas Hilton Theater, AMD announced plans to revolutionize the deployment, development and delivery of High-Definition content through a new massively-parallel supercomputer, dubbed the “AMD Fusion Render Cloud.” The announcement was made alongside leading... |
9 January 2009
05:25 GMT |
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Understanding the way black holes vibrate is not the easiest of tasks, and to calculate all possible outcomes for various scenarios, variables, and surprise elements is a very demanding process, in terms of the computing resources it requires. That's why some of the smaller labs performing calculus in the area c... |
23 December 2008
21:01 GMT |
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Intel's highly successful Atom processor, which currently powers most of the recently released netbook, nettop and low-power computer systems on the market, could actually be used to power a computer system that would normally be used for highly demanding applications. A concept of such a high-performance comput... |
21 November 2008
04:34 GMT |
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The fastest computer in the world nowadays is considered to be IBM's Roadrunner, which managed to break the petaflop barrier five months ago. Recent news shows that the top position is also targeted by Cray Inc.'s XT Jaguar, which may prove a lot faster next week. According to the U.S. Department of Energy,... |
13 November 2008
05:11 GMT |
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IBM announced that it is currently working on building a new supercomputer, which is said to be delivered to the University of Science and Technology of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah. The supercomputer is stated to become one of the world's most powerful systems. The new IBM-built system will be named Shahee... |
29 September 2008
04:33 GMT |
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Scientists from Iowa State University are going to be part of a giant consortium involved in the development of the most powerful supercomputer in the world. The new device, which will be located at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, will be able to perform a su... |
19 September 2008
11:02 GMT |
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Microsoft is making headway toward the availability of the gold build of Windows for supercomputers, reportedly planned for RTM on September 22, 2008. At the same time, the Redmond giant is offering for download documentation set up to describe in detail the design and deployment process associated with Windows HPC S... |
18 September 2008
11:10 GMT |
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Fifty years ago, IBM started a project to build up a machine meant to replace the company's 704 supercomputer. The end result came under the name of 7030, also known as Stretch, and it was able to perform about half a million instructions per second and 100 billion computations a day. IBM's CEO at that time... |
15 September 2008
05:10 GMT |
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Microsoft's latest iteration of the Windows operating system for supercomputers features no less than 16 built-in diagnostics. But the fact of the matter is that Windows HPC Server 2008 offers access to a complex collection of solutions integrated by default with the platforms, beyond items resolved to help admi... |
2 September 2008
06:38 GMT |
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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
08:56 GMT |
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Apple has revealed at its World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) this year that Snow Leopard packs a technology which allows the OS to use the processing power of graphics processors for apps that don't focus on graphics. Khronos Group president Neil Trevett claims Apple's OpenCL is paving the way to the f... |
18 June 2008
10:08 GMT |
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Microsoft is making headway with the adoption of Windows HPC Server 2008, and taking Windows operating system for supercomputers at a new apex even though the platform is not finalized yet. According to the Redmond company, a Beta version of HPC Server 2008 is running on the system at the National Center for Supercom... |
18 June 2008
05:49 GMT |
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The US Department of Energy has announced recently that it currently owns the world's fastest supercomputer, the 'RoadRunner', designed and built to operate on video game console processors. The RoadRunner is allegedly capable of executing 1,000 trillion computations per second, or a petaflop, while th... |
10 June 2008
04:22 GMT |
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Microsoft's next generation Windows for Supercomputers is moving forward, making an important step since the end of 2007. With in excess of 1,000 bugs fixed, Windows HPC Server 2008 has now reached Beta 2. The previous beta of Windows HPC Server 2008 was released in November 2007, and for the latest beta, Micros... |
19 May 2008
06:20 GMT |
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IBM has just introduced a new blade server offering for high-performance computing, powered by Cell processors. The new offering is especially targeted at financial services, digital media creation, and medical imaging, as the updated Cell processor comes with better support for floating point operations.According to... |
14 May 2008
05:12 GMT |
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The device will be developed and built by the Intel Corporation and the SGI, and will be installed at NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility at the Ames Research Center. It is expected to become operational by 2009, when it will have a computational power of one petaflops. Then, until 2012, the new supercomputer will ... |
12 May 2008
11:03 GMT |
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The upcoming supercomputing cluster to coordinate NASA's missions on the Moon and Mars will be delivered by system manufacturer SGI. The famous agency has chosen to purchase a 20,480-core SGI Altix ICE system that will be installed this summer in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility at Ames Research Center ... |
7 May 2008
02:53 GMT |
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Supercomputers are complex and intricate creatures with racks linked by kilometers of optical fiber. Most of such computing behemoths are extremely difficult to deploy and sometimes it takes full months between shipping and the first boot-up. The Purdue University supercomputer is a rare case, given the fact that it ... |
6 May 2008
08:32 GMT |
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Supercomputer builder Cray has signed a multi-year collaboration agreement with Intel regarding high-performance computing systems. Under the new deal, the two partners will develop new multi-core technologies that are alleged to rush the advent of multi-petascale systems.According to a joint statement released by th... |
29 April 2008
03:06 GMT |
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The latest updates on the F1 Supercomputing says that Toyota replaced its Itanium 2 system with an AMD Opteron supercomputer. The old Intel Itanium 2 system used by the blue team has been recently replaced with a faster one. Some light on the supercomputing capabilities on the highly secretive F1 industry is shed by ... |
23 April 2008
10:51 GMT |
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High-power computing solutions provider Appro announced that it has started deploying a new supercomputer at Renault's formula 1 headquarters in Enstone. According to the company, the new supercomputer will be exclusively built with AMD's Barcelona server processors with the B3 silicon revision.Although For... |
12 April 2008
06:01 GMT |
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Chip manufacturer Intel has just revealed further details about its upcoming generations of computer processors, that are alleged to be immune to the side effects caused by cosmic rays. Although they do not affect the life on Earth, cosmic rays have the habit of causing havoc amongst electronic systems, as they go th... |
10 April 2008
03:36 GMT |
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Cray is currently working on a next-generation massively parallel processor (MPP) supercomputer, that will be shipped to the University of Tennessee when it is finished. Probably the most powerful in the world, the petaflop-scale monolith will be used in scientific research, including global climate change research, ... |
8 April 2008
11:04 GMT |
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Intel's upcoming Nehalem processors seem to promise a lot in terms of performance, although the chip manufacturer did not deliver the whole picture. Among the bits of information in the Nehalem puzzle, Intel has hinted users at the chip's capabilities to work with huge amounts of memory, namely 288 GB of pu... |
7 April 2008
06:43 GMT |
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The brand-new PlayStation 3 from Sony is surely one of the best recipes for having fun. If the average user would enjoy setting off into a difficult mission with Solid Snake in the Metal Gear series or smashing some alien creatures in the Alien versus Predator, some true tech geeks would put gaming consoles to new an... |
29 February 2008
04:17 GMT |
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Graphics expert Nvidia plans on taking over the supercomputer market in the next few years. The company has announced that it will power the top five supercomputers in the world. This move will give Nvidia's business a whole new dimension, and competing for the gaming market will become child's play. Howeve... |
27 February 2008
05:57 GMT |
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University of Texas recently unveiled Ranger, world's second most powerful supercomputer. The high-performance computing cluster was built by Sun and is comprised of 15,744 quad-core AMD Opteron processors for a total of 62,976 cores, 123 terabytes of memory and 1.7 petabytes of storage.According to David Rich, ... |
25 February 2008
03:16 GMT |
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The Japanese University of Kyoto has just placed an order for an AMD Opteron-based supercomputer. The machine will be built using 416 HX600 high-performance computers built by Fujitsu. Each computer is powered by four quad-core Opteron processors, which means that the cluster totals 1,664 processors and 6,656 Opteron... |
16 February 2008
07:02 GMT |
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World's third most powerful computer on the planet has been switched on recently in New Mexico, 48 hours after its delivery. Bill Richardson, New Mexico governor, took part in the ceremony and saluted the arrival of the multicore monster.You might be surprised to find out that the New Mexico supercomputer is not... |
29 January 2008
08:34 GMT |
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Moscow State University unveiled the details of an agreement with server vendor IBM to install and deploy a Blue Gene/P supercomputing cluster. The BlueGene supercomputer will be Russia's first device of its kind in the BlueGene/P series and will be installed at the Department of Computational Mathematics and Cy... |
26 January 2008
05:06 GMT |
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Look no further than Earth! You won't find lower temperatures on any other body in the universe. For example, the Moon experiences about -227 degrees Celsius, while the vacuum temperature is approximated at about -265 degrees. However, on Earth, humans have been capable of cooling material to even lower temperat... |
23 January 2008
05:54 GMT |
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Supercomputer manufacturer Cray is heading towards a new generation of computing machines with the advent of two new offerings in their XT supercomputer series. The new computers are built on the XT5 infrastructure and support field programmable gate arrays (fpgas), a feature that makes them entirely adaptive superco... |
21 January 2008
11:19 GMT |
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