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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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The European supercomputer top is about to change as of today with the advent of the new "abacus" called Hector. Located back in UK, Hector is the fastest supercomputer in the kingdom, and, at the same time, one of the most powerful computing clusters on the old continent. It sums up the power of around 12,000 deskto... |
15 January 2008
03:40 GMT |
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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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Not long ago, I have talked about the Iranian High Performance Computing Research Center (IHPCRC) having built an AMD Opteron based supercomputer. Having a high performance computer may not look like a criminal act, but, when applied to this specific country, it conflicts with U.S. antiterrorism trade restrictions th... |
12 December 2007
04:15 GMT |
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An Iranian computer research center in Tehran claims to have built a supercomputer out of AMD's Opteron processors. This is alleged to be the Middle Eastern country's most powerful supercomputer. Many people would rush to congratulate the Iranians for the new technological achievement but there is a big "bu... |
7 December 2007
04:36 GMT |
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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
04:20 GMT |
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Dr Gaurav Khanna is a professor at the University of Massachusetts. He has been renting supercomputers at NASA and the US National Science Foundation for US$20,000-$30,000 a year to run complicated calculations on just how much radiation is emitted in the process of a black hole swallowing a star. Khanna says that th... |
5 November 2007
06:43 GMT |
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The Tera-scale project is the latest multi core setup from Intel which is aimed at supercomputers and high performance servers. A prototype Tera-scale chip was built in February 2007 and it featured no less than 80 processing cores while being clocked at a total running frequency between 3.16GHz and 5.8Ghz. The proto... |
3 September 2007
10:12 GMT |
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What are supercomputers very good at? Well, among other things like simulations, resolving math problems, pattern recognition and so on they are very good at predicting weather changes, so all the weather forecasts for the Beijing Olympic Games will be based on an IBM supercomputer that will continuously update its f... |
27 August 2007
06:19 GMT |
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Supercomputing comes from an age when desktop computer systems had just about no worth-mentioning processing power, yet they were priced like crazy. As it was much easier and cheaper to maintain a single supercomputer or mainframe than a huge number of smaller and much less performant systems, the high performance co... |
21 August 2007
10:51 GMT |
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IBM has a long standing tradition in building supercomputers and mainframes and lately their machines are likely to be the most powerful computing platforms in the whole world. Until now the most powerful supercomputer was IBM's Blue Gene model L system, but now a new and even more powerful system is on its way.... |
13 August 2007
11:20 GMT |
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The TeraGrid is an advanced computing infrastructure aimed at open scientific research that will soon receive a powerful 2048-processor BlueGene/L system at the United States National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR for short). The IBM built supercomputer, codenamed Frost, requires only a fraction of the power ... |
11 August 2007
05:02 GMT |
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IBM is perhaps the largest supercomputer designer, manufacturer and vendor in the world, having made history with its servers and mainframes. Now it looks as if the well respected company will soon start building a new supercomputer for the National Science Foundation that will be housed at the National Center for S... |
6 August 2007
06:24 GMT |
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IBM is maybe the leader of the supercomputer building industry and in June it announced the launch of the next generation Blue Gene/P supercomputer that is much faster than its predecessor and is priced at $1.3 million per rack, according to the news site ComputerWorld. As a marketing move to support and widen the ac... |
2 August 2007
04:34 GMT |
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A Silicon Valley company just announced that they started shipping a FPGA based coprocessor designed to be used on a socket 940 multiprocessor motherboard that is normally used to house one or more AMD Opteron processors. DRC Computer says that its RPU (reconfigurable processing unit) eliminates bottlenecks like limi... |
14 July 2007
06:37 GMT |
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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
08:27 GMT |
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Let's assume you have that need for multitasking, and you feel your computer just doesn't rise up to your expectations, say you want to make an AVI movie out of a DVD, while recording a TV show from your TV Tuner, and at the same time, surfing the Internet and running a processor benchmark. If so, then you ... |
21 March 2007
04:00 GMT |
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