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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
05:08 GMT |
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The University of California in San Diego (UCSD)-based San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) was recently awarded no less than $20 million, in order to start constructing its new supercomputer, entitled Gordon. The money was awarded to the Center via a special grant from the United States National Science Foundation ... |
5 November 2009
19:41 GMT |
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Scientists at the US Department Of Energy's (DOE) Los Alamos National Laboratory have recently started running their model of the unseen Universe on the world's fastest supercomputer, the IBM Roadrunner. The team that manages the simulation is part of the Nuclear and Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmo... |
27 October 2009
06:53 GMT |
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Examining the properties of black holes is not precisely the easiest thing in the world to do. In fact, one may argue that it's pretty difficult, considering that there is no way of probing them directly. They would engulf any spacecraft we send in their vicinity, and they also bend and swallow light, which mean... |
20 October 2009
03:56 GMT |
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The Kraken Cray XT5 supercomputer at the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) has recently been upgraded to become the first academic computer in the world to exceed one petaflop of calculation power. The acronym FLOPS stands for FLoating point Operations Per Second, and the Kraken is now able to perf... |
9 October 2009
09:49 GMT |
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A massive cluster of high-performance computers may have the ability to artificially generate new forms of artificial life, experts believe. Numerous combinations of chemicals are put together in a virtual environment, and their interactions are documented. Silicon Valley scientists propose turning software originall... |
30 September 2009
02:44 GMT |
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Although it may seem like mathematical problems from the past are behind us, and our researchers deal with more abstract and complex calculations, this is not the case, as evidenced recently by a new computer effort by an international team of experts. Scientists from North and South America, from Europe, and Austral... |
22 September 2009
05:49 GMT |
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Scientists have hypothesized for a long time that biological robots will soon become real, but now experts at the University of the West of England have completed the necessary preparations for the first-of-its-kind prototype to be built. It will mostly be made out of a microorganism called plasmodium, which has reve... |
28 August 2009
16:51 GMT |
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This August, the American space agency made available the first computing hours at its high-end computing system for climate analysis, located at the Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Maryland. The instrument is the centerpiece of NASA's new climate-simulation capabilities, which will contribute with th... |
25 August 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Over recent years, the speed at which supercomputers process the datasets they are tasked with has increased so much that it now virtually exceeds the speed at which the computers can input or output this data. This means that graphics-processing clusters are slowly becoming obsolete, as they can no longer improve th... |
10 August 2009
02:35 GMT |
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Over recent decades, the complexity of simulations conducted using the world's supercomputers has increased significantly, and it is now possible to mimic the path of an atom or the behavior of a fly, or run simulations involving numerous factors at the same time. Taking his inspiration from the way meteorologis... |
24 July 2009
03:50 GMT |
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It would appear that petascale supercomputers, able to perform one quadrillion (one million billion) operations per second or more, are no longer in fashion for studying black holes, the collision of galaxies, or the decay of protons in the magnetosphere, but rather for understanding things that were thought to be ou... |
7 July 2009
06:55 GMT |
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IT companies NEC and Hitachi delivered a devastating blow to Japan's attempt at building the largest supercomputer in the world. The future machine, scheduled to begin operations next year, and to be completed by 2012, would have computed its data with both vector and scalar processors. If the initiative had bee... |
21 May 2009
06:53 GMT |
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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
03:29 GMT |
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The newly released 32nd TOP500 supercomputers list also makes the world's second largest chip manufacturer, Advanced Micro Devices, proud of the capabilities of its technology. To be more precise, seven of the Top 10 fastest supercomputer systems in the world are powered by AMD Opteron processors, including the ... |
17 November 2008
04:31 GMT |
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The 32nd TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers has been recently released, unveiling the fact that IBM's Roadrunner has managed to hold on to its leading position, while the newly announced Cray XT5 supercomputer, called Jaguar, only placed second. Even so, the machine located at the Oak Ridge N... |
17 November 2008
04:09 GMT |
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The second release candidate of Windows HPC Server 2008 is now available for download via Microsoft Connect. The software giant is indeed making headway with the development of the successor of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, indicating that it is coming ever closer to making available the gold Windows HPC Serve... |
20 August 2008
12:40 GMT |
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Microsoft has debuted a limited time offer designed to help customers running Windows for Supercomputers test the performance of their HPC cluster. Phil Pennington, Windows Server Technical Evangelist, is inviting users to access a new tool developed by a member of the Microsoft High Performance Computing team for fr... |
29 July 2008
05:41 GMT |
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No, Linux 85.4% vs. Windows 1% is not a typo, neither the result of erroneous information. The fact is that there is a context where the open source operating system holds the lion's king of the market while Microsoft's proprietary platform is not the only dominant OS, but is reduced to a bottom feeder in t... |
2 July 2008
07:29 GMT |
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The 31st Top500 supercomputer list was released today at Dresden, Germany, and it brings good news, both for some of the companies involved and for the environmentalists. The dominance is held by IBM, with 210 systems out of 500, as well as 5 of the top 10. The second company on the list is Hewlett-Packard, which has... |
18 June 2008
11:18 GMT |
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Today IBM Corp. announced a next-generation Cell processor, geared especially for computer servers. The PowerXCell 8i is intended to provide sustained petaflops performance and it is tested on the Road Runner system for the world's first supercomputer status. IBM wants its servers to pass the petaflops barrier a... |
13 May 2008
09:49 GMT |
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Carbon nanotubes have been considered for some time now the perfect building blocks for the future generation of ultrafast computers, but working with such small structures is no easy task, especially while trying to line them up into a specific architecture. This wouldn't be so big a deal, however it disables t... |
23 January 2008
09:33 GMT |
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When we think about supercomputers we imagine something …big. A traditional supercomputer can draw enough power to run a small city, cost millions of dollars to operate, and last but not least, occupy a large amount of space. But the cost of electrical power consumption, computer floor space and lost computing time ... |
2 November 2007
06:08 GMT |
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Supercomputers are among the most fascinating machines ever built, as they are capable of carrying out extremely complex computations and computing operations used in a wide array of scientific applications. And the latest such extreme machine comes from the NEC Corporation, which has just announced the development o... |
26 October 2007
10:56 GMT |
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