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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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Normally, when thinking project Titan, one might think of myths or supersized robots of doom, or both, but in this case, the subject of discussion is a supercomputer, one that is set to be the strongest ever created.While they were a rarity at one point in the past, supercomputers can be said to exist in droves now,... |
24 March 2011
09:14 GMT |
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Although in the past the distinction between the supercomputer and the high-performance server market has been extremely clear, it now seems like the line between these types of systems is as thin as it gets and analysts expect that the two will meld in the not-so-distant future.According to EETimes, this trend has n... |
14 March 2011
04:41 GMT |
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The US Department of Defense has recently unveiled its largest supercomputer to date, a Cray XE6 system that is known by the name of Raptor and packs no less than 43,712 AMD Magny Cours computer cores and 87.7 Terabytes of system memory.The machine is installed at the Air Force Research Laboratory Supercomputing Reso... |
11 March 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Russia's first petaflop capable supercomputer just came into operation at the Rosatom Nuclear Energy State Corporation in Sarov. The machine has a sustained performance of 780 teraflops, making it the 12th-fastest system in the world in an unofficial Supercomputer TOP500 list.
Apart from its performances not... |
11 March 2011
08:00 GMT |
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The Oak Ridge National Lab plans to add another Cray built petaflop capable supercomputer, dubbed Titan, to its HPC machine lineup in 2012, which is to be powered by a slew of Nvidia Tesla general purpose GPUs.
According to a Knoxville News Sentinel report cited by HPC Wire, this is the third Cray supercomputer to... |
9 March 2011
09:46 GMT |
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After snagging the title of the world's most powerful supercomputer, China has now turned its attention towards the development of a new HPC system that will be powered by processors designed and built inside the country's boundaries. The new system is expected to go live by the end of 2011.
The superco... |
8 March 2011
06:03 GMT |
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Experts at the University of Portsmouth, in the United Kingdom, announce that they finally managed to bring their first supercomputer online. The machine, based at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation (ICG), will be involved in the search for dark matter and dark energy. The instrument is powered by a 1,008-cor... |
8 February 2011
08:56 GMT |
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Fujitsu seems to think that 10 years was a period long enough to stay out of the global supercomputer market, so it began to negotiate with European partners about exporting installations based on the K computer.Until about 10 years ago, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices had not yet created the Pentium Pro, Pentium I... |
29 December 2010
10:54 GMT |
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Since there is a constant search for better high-performance computers, IBM decided to start working on its newest supercomputer, one that is set to be based in the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in Garching, Germany.
Currently, the most powerful supercomputer in existence, constructed with both microprocess... |
18 December 2010
04:47 GMT |
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It seems like the battle in the supercomputing world is preparing to reach a critical point, Russia announcing they are getting ready to enter this race with a 1.3 petaFLOPS systems that is bound to go online at the Lomonsov Moscow State University.In order to achieve this performance, the Lomonsov Moscow State Unive... |
1 December 2010
05:09 GMT |
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Intel recently demonstrated the development platform for high-performance computing accelerators, known as Knights Ferry, but NVIDIA does not seem to be too worried about the progress said chip giant appears to be making.Basically, Intel has been trying to create an HPC-only accelerator, one that is supposed to perf... |
19 November 2010
05:18 GMT |
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Intel has been working on what is the so-called first high-performance computing (HPC) accelerator, one that is supposedly based on the Larrabee GPU design, and it seems that its first public demonstration has taken place.What Intel showed off, or so reports have it, were the so-called 'real-world capabilities&... |
17 November 2010
08:22 GMT |
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When it comes to computing, there aren't that many awards as prestigious as holding the “World's fastest supercomputer” title, China's Tianhe-1A supercomputer managing to surpass everything that the US and the rest of the world could muster, snagging this title from Cray's Jaguar HPC l... |
28 October 2010
02:38 GMT |
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Since it has, more or less, already seen to the needs of the consumer and professional markets, NVIDIA is now saying its piece on the HPC front as well, apparently even being set on powering supercomputers with performance levels of several PetaFLOPS.As consumers probably know, NVIDIA has several lines of products b... |
2 October 2010
05:30 GMT |
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Fujitsu has announced its intention to create the so-called “K computer', a HPC system intended to have a performance about five times that of the Jaguar, the currently most powerful supercomputer in the world.Since solving the mysteries of our planet and the universe always involves very high computing c... |
29 September 2010
10:07 GMT |
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HPC world-class player SGI, along with Intel, recently announced that they are partnering with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in order to come up with a new computing architecture for supercomputing, which essentially means that NVIDIA has its work cut out for it.NVIDIA has long been advocatin... |
16 August 2010
05:08 GMT |
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NVIDIA has been, for some time, going on about the benefits that GPU computing modules can bring to High-Performance Computing applications. Several supercomputers that employ the massive parallel processing capabilities of such solutions have already emerged. Now, apparently intrigued by the possibilities offered b... |
10 August 2010
05:26 GMT |
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Now that the IT industry is on a rebound, all companies hope to make the best of things and even believe they may strengthen their position if they manage to influence the direction taken by certain segments. NEC Corp., for instance, hopes to tighten its grip on the supercomputer segment, and intends to use the grow... |
10 July 2010
04:31 GMT |
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Over the past months, IT news has mostly centered around the new CPU and GPU that Intel, AMD and NVIDIA rushed to bring out. This means that the developments on the HPC (high-performance computing) didn't get as much attention as they otherwise would have. Fortunately, with the June PC release spree over, superc... |
6 July 2010
09:29 GMT |
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The big problem with supercomputers is that they use a great deal of energy. As such, companies that set up high-performance computing (HPC) installations do their best to reduce the environment footprint as much as they can. Even more unusual plans, such as using cow manure as a power source, have cropped up over th... |
5 July 2010
06:54 GMT |
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AMD believes that the IT industry is nearing a stage where HPCs (high-performance computers) will need to adopt a new type of configuration if they hope to keep getting stronger and more efficient. At present, many supercomputers are exclusively powered by x86 processors. Nevertheless, GPU computing modules have alr... |
26 June 2010
05:07 GMT |
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Like all the segments of the IT industry, supercomputers have come a long way over the years. They have reached computational power beyond what people dared to dream a couple of decades ago. Additionally, those that create such clusters have begun experimenting with different approaches, such as GPU computing, while ... |
31 May 2010
05:58 GMT |
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So far, officially, Intel's currently most powerful server processors, the Xeon 7500 series, have “only” eight cores at the most. This makes AMD, with its Magny-Cours 12-core chips, the current leader in multi-core server processing. What some end-users might not know, however, or may have forgotten,... |
9 April 2010
05:49 GMT |
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At the moment, in the world, there are only two supercomputers capable of operating at over one PetaFLOPS performance, the Roadrunner (1.042) and the Jaguar (1.76), the latter currently being the strongest Supercomputer on the Top500 list. This superpowered duo, however, is likely to become a trio this year, now that... |
15 March 2010
06:18 GMT |
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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
07:14 GMT |
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Supercomputers are generally large collections of processors that work simultaneously on solving complex problems, such as disease cures, global warming, natural-phenomenon analyses, and so on. Naturally, the higher the combined computing power, the faster the solution is found. IBM's Power7 microprocessor, whic... |
8 December 2009
07:15 GMT |
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After NEC and Hitachi renounced the Project Keisoku contract back in May, a contract which implied that they would put together a hybrid scalar and vector supercomputer (a combination of Sparc processors and a variant of the SX engine from NEC), the Rikagaku Kankyusho research laboratory eventually decided to come up... |
28 November 2009
03:49 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
02:50 GMT |
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We already know that IBM, although it didn't get the top position in the Top500 list this time around, did hold the number-one position with its Roadrunner for quite a while. Additionally, the company got the top position in the Green500 list (really, 18 out of the top 20 were IBM stations). Based on these facts... |
24 November 2009
06:02 GMT |
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With the advent of graphics processing units that can take upon themselves part of the CPU's computing tasks, developers are slowly researching how GPUs might be used in complicated computations instead of just graphics-rendering tasks. While supercomputers based on this principle are just beginning to appear, C... |
24 November 2009
03:13 GMT |
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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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