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Cray may be one of, if not the greatest maker of supercomputers, but even it can't seem to be handling the “Big Data” market as well as it would like, hence its new business decision.
Long story short, the company has decided to create a new business division, called YarcData and led by Arvind Part... |
10 February 2012
09:42 GMT |
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Cray, one of the most renowned names in the HPC market, has just announced that the company has revamped its system lineup with a series of new affordably priced machines, targeting the midrange supercomputing market. Released by the company into the Cray XE6m and Cray XK6m lines, the new systems are based on AMD&rs... |
2 February 2012
08:14 GMT |
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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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Intel bought many companies over the years, but the latest acquisition may not exactly be easy to guess, since it is not about central processing units.Intel has officially announced that it has reached an agreement with QLogic for the acquirement of all product lines and certain assets related to the InfiniBand bus... |
23 January 2012
11:23 GMT |
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The first four racks of NNSA’s Sequoia supercomputer have arrived at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where they will stand at the heart of what is to become the 20 petaflops Sequoia based on IBM Blue Gene technology.In addition to its impressive number crunching capabilities, IBM also expects its system... |
13 January 2012
10:31 GMT |
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People know, in principle, that tech products used to be a lot bigger and weaker than PCs are today, but it might be hard to gain perspective.Fortunately, there were ways of taking photos even half a century ago, so we can see for ourselves what a hard disk drive looked like.The Next Web dug up some things on the IBM... |
28 December 2011
16:41 GMT |
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IBM decided it was time for its Watson supercomputer to start contributing to the wellbeing of mankind instead of just winning knowledge games.Watson showed its mettle by winning a game of Jeopardy! against two human champions.Now, servers like the ones that powered Watson during the Jeopardy! contest will help the ... |
27 December 2011
11:06 GMT |
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Amazon can safely say that it has one of the largest and most versatile cloud networks in the world, especially given its ownership of a supercomputer.
The queer thing about Amazon's so-called supercomputer is that it is not really a supercomputer.
In fact, whether or not it exists depends on what Amazon deci... |
27 December 2011
07:27 GMT |
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T-Platforms, a global supplier of supercomputer and HPC solutions, has announced recently that the company has been selected by the M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University for building a computer cluster capable of 10 PFlops performance.The system is destined to be used for supporting fundamental scientific and applica... |
22 December 2011
09:38 GMT |
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NVIDIA did make it fairly clear it was going to milk the ARM cow for all it was worth and, sure enough, it now has what it claims will enable ARM supercomputers.
The idea of ARM supercomputers may not be particularly appealing, but some sorts of computations could definitely do with a more energy efficient means of... |
21 December 2011
16:11 GMT |
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IBM has announced just recently that the Slovak Academy of Science has chosen the company to provide a 96 teraflop supercomputer, which will become the fastest system in the country after being installed. IBM will work on this project together with local business partner DATALAN and the system will be based on IBM&r... |
21 December 2011
11:09 GMT |
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Noblis, an organization that provides expert technical and advisory services in systems engineering, science and tech, program management, as well as other fields, has just announced that its center for applied high performance computing has just received the addition of a new Cray XMT supercomputer.This makes CAHPC ... |
16 December 2011
10:24 GMT |
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The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is preparing to unveil the Gordon supercomputer in January of 2012, which will become the first SSD-based HPC system in the world as well as the fastest data crunching machine of its kind ever built.The system is built around solid state drives delivering a total 300 terabyte... |
15 December 2011
17:01 GMT |
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The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) got the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help it buy an SGI UV1000 system back in July, and the Blacklight is now up and running.
Basically, Blacklight is a supercomputer that boasts the world's largest shared-memory systems.
While the total memory is of 32 tera... |
30 November 2011
10:19 GMT |
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Supercomputing expert, Cray just announced that the company has been selected to provide a new system for the Kyoto University in Japan that will deliver 300-teraflops of performance in 2012 with plans to upgrade to a 400-teraflops next-generation Cray supercomputer in 2014.The initial system that will be installed a... |
30 November 2011
05:38 GMT |
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Nvidia has just announced that for the second year in a row, the Tsubame 2.0 system powered by Nvidia Tesla GPUs has become the most energy efficient petaflop-class supercomputer in the world according to the TOP500 list.Tsubame 2.0 is a heterogeneous supercomputer (combining both CPUs and GPUs) used to accelerate a ... |
23 November 2011
14:51 GMT |
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3D processors aren't a new concept, but the sort of chips that IBM has just come up with definitely haven't been tried before.
Anyone with even the most meager understanding of electrical appliances will know that water, or any sort of liquid, can and will severely damage any electrical circuitry it spill... |
18 November 2011
09:18 GMT |
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IBM may soon take back the title of world's fastest supercomputer with an upcoming Blue Gene/Q machine that, when installed, should be able to deliver almost twice the performance of today's fastest HPC system.The supercomputer, names “Sequoia,” is expected to be fully deployed in 2012 at Lawren... |
17 November 2011
16:11 GMT |
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Intel made the official announcement of the Knights Corner parallel processing accelerator but some things weren't perfectly clear, so we reached out to Intel, who were able, and willing, to answer a few of our questions.To offer some context, Knights Corner is Intel's answer to the NVIDIA Tesla and all ot... |
16 November 2011
18:18 GMT |
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The SC11 event, focused on supercomputing products and technologies, is where NVIDIA and AMD both launched several devices and initiatives and, now, Intel is trying to overshadow both with the KNC accelerator.
KNC, short for Knights Corner, is a compute accelerator whose role in a supercomputer is to carry out para... |
16 November 2011
02:49 GMT |
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The TOP500 organization has recently published a new list of the world's most powerful supercomputers, and this is for the first time that a system has managed to maintain its position atop the list, as Japan's "K Computer" has emerged yet again as the king of the pack."This is the first time since we began... |
15 November 2011
11:12 GMT |
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The Intel Sandy Bridge architecture has struck again on the supercomputing front, enabling the creation of the “Carter” supercomputer that Purdue University is very proud of indeed.
Intel's Sandy Bridge Xenon E-5 processors may not have been formally launched yet, but they have already been put to ... |
15 November 2011
10:14 GMT |
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Since NVIDIA got to brag more than once about its presence on the supercomputing front, AMD decided to do something similar, even getting its chips adopted by the same HPC project as the one NVIDIA spoke about.
In this case, though, the two companies don't find themselves on opposing sides.
Though they both ... |
15 November 2011
02:43 GMT |
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NVIDIA really isn't laying low with supercomputing today, determined to get its GPU computing modules recognized as widely as possible, so it partnered with Cray, PGI and CAPS.More specifically, NVIDIA, Cray Inc., the Portland Group (PGI), and CAPS Enterprise established a sort of consortium for the promotion o... |
14 November 2011
11:12 GMT |
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The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has chosen to adopt a hybrid approach, like so many other supercomputers have.
The Blue Waters, as its HPC (high-performance computing) application is called, will rely on both x86 CPUs and GPUs.
The chosen GPUs (graphics processing units), or GPU compute ... |
14 November 2011
10:31 GMT |
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You might have already read about how the Institute of Process Engineering of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS-IPE) were able to use molecular-dynamics simulations to simulate the whole H1N1 influenza virus. If you haven't, you might want to stop by here and read about it, since it was the first computer simul... |
12 November 2011
12:11 GMT |
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The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) announced earlier today that IBM will install critical components of a petascale supercomputing system that will help scientists improve our understanding of Earth.The new system, appropriately named Yellowstone, runs on an IBM iDataPlex supercomputer and consist of... |
8 November 2011
11:04 GMT |
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NVIDIA's Tesla line of GPU compute accelerators are definitely showing that supercomputing likes parallel processing, this time through the actions of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).
Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that RAS is showing, through use of Tesla M2090, that yes, GPUs are favored i... |
8 November 2011
10:39 GMT |
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Supercomputers seem to be spoken of a lot these days but, then again, with monsters the size of the Fujitsu K, this is hardly surprising.
The Top500 list of supercomputers will probably have the K at the very top next time it is compiled.
Though Fujitsu has not yet held the official press release that will official... |
4 November 2011
11:48 GMT |
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AMD made an official announcement in which it reveals that both existing and upcoming processors are being used in high-performance computing applications. Since HPC applications, supercomputers as it were, have become the core of any and all research efforts, AMD, naturally, wants to get contracts for as many as p... |
2 November 2011
20:01 GMT |
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RIKEN and Fujitsu have just announced that the "K computer" HPC system that is currently under joint development has achieved a LINPACK benchmark performance of 10.51 petaflops, improving its previous performance of 8 petaflops reached previously this year. Even before this new result, the Japanese system was already... |
2 November 2011
15:21 GMT |
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A consortium comprised of leading computing companies in Europe and research institutes, has just announced that it plans to develop a new type of computer architecture based on ARM processors that will be able to deliver exascale performance while using 15 to 30 times less energy than today's systems.This new p... |
27 October 2011
06:11 GMT |
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Supercomputer maker Cray has recently announced that it has signed a contract to upgrade the Cray XT5 machine nicknamed "Jaguar" located at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to a new XK6 HPC system, capable of delivering 20 petaflops of performance.This new supercomputer will be cal... |
13 October 2011
05:14 GMT |
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Appro has announced recently that the company has successfully deployed the ApproXtreme-X supercomputer, also known as Mustang, based on AMD's Opteron 6100-series processors at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.According to Appro, this deployment represents approximately $10 Million in production computing capa... |
13 October 2011
04:04 GMT |
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While it is busy promoting consumer graphics, NVIDIA has also snared a deal on the supercomputing front, where it has sealed a contract through which the “Titan” will use its Tesla accelerators.
GPU computing modules have gained a role in supercomputing thanks to their immense parallel processing capa... |
11 October 2011
08:05 GMT |
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Russia recently expressed its commitments to get into the race for building an exascale supercomputer by 2020, thus joining an ever-growing list of countries with similar aspirations including China, Japan, and the United States.Russian experts have already drafted plans for the development for such a system, which i... |
30 September 2011
06:11 GMT |
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Large-scale companies usually have divisions for every one of their business outlets, but Intel decided to go one step further and create a whole company dedicated to just the supercomputing segment.Intel is a company with many aims and considerable resources, even though it mainly has a stake in the processor marke... |
31 August 2011
05:52 GMT |
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Seeking to expand the usability of its GPU computing modules, NVIDIA has entered a partnership with Gaussian, Inc. for adding Tesla support to its quantum chemistry application.GPU computing modules have definitely gained a reputation in supercomputing, thanks to their high parallel processing power.Unfortunately, t... |
29 August 2011
10:11 GMT |
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Nvidia has just announced that it has appointed Steve Scott, a longtime executive for supercomputer specialist Cray, as CTO for the company's Tesla business unit, in order to spearhead its high performance computing initiative. In his role as chief technology officer (CTO) for the Nvidia Tesla unit, Scott will ... |
11 August 2011
05:15 GMT |
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IBM and the University of Illinois recently announced they have terminated the contract signed between the two parts for the development of the Blue Waters supercomputer, as the former said the costs associated with the development and support of the machine are far too great.The Blue Waters supercomputer was expecte... |
9 August 2011
07:07 GMT |
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Russia's Lomonosov supercomputer, installed at the Moscow State University, has become the fastest system to ever complete the Graph500 benchmark used to determine which supercomputers are most efficient at processing arrays of sparse data.
Such tasks are commonplace in pharmacology, information security, and... |
14 July 2011
09:48 GMT |
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The Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, has just announced that it has signed a contract with SGI to provide the first phase of the university's new supercomputer that combines traditional CPU-based hardware with GPGPU technology to deliver massive amounts of computing power.The system, w... |
11 July 2011
10:32 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
11:06 GMT |
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It seems to be that, even while making PCs, tablets and all other sorts of electronics, Acer still had more than enough time and resources to invest in the making of what is no the fastest supercomputer in Taiwan.Acer has been busy in Taiwan over the past year, and while this didn't stop it from setting up the ... |
23 June 2011
10:58 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
04:52 GMT |
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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
04:02 GMT |
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Released a short while ago, the latest version of the TOP5000 supercomputer list has a new leader, a Japanese system that is powered by 68,544 Sparc-based processors from Fujitsu and that is capable of delivering a staggering 8 petaflops of computational power.The so called K Computer is installed at the Riken Advanc... |
20 June 2011
15:31 GMT |
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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
10:17 GMT |
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The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has just announced that it has started operating the country's fastest supercomputer yet, the SAGA-220 which uses Intel Xeon CPUs and Nvidia Tesla GPGPU add-on cards in order to deliver a peak performance of 220 teraflops.
India's SAGA-220 supercomputer is ho... |
3 May 2011
05:50 GMT |
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When GPU modules started to be used in supercomputing, Intel figured it would make something to battle them, leading to the appearance of the MIC architecture, which should start to be seriously tested soon.With every new supercomputer, performance rises, and it looks like GPU computing modules have already been use... |
14 April 2011
10:28 GMT |
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