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Experts at the American space agency are using the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility's Pleiades Supercomputer to study the manner in which rotor blades interact with the vortices they themselves create. This line of study is extremely important for a number of civilian and military applications, such as impr... |
16 November 2011
11:04 GMT |
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Using NVIDIA Tesla graphics processing units (GPU), a collaboration of Chinese experts were recently able to create the most complex model of the H1N1 influenza virus. Their computer simulation revealed that microorganism in atomic-level resolution.
The achievement marks a significant step forward in the fight again... |
12 November 2011
06:39 GMT |
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According to the results of a new supercomputer simulation, it would appear that many extrasolar planets have exomoons in their orbit. In fact, more than a quarter of them might have companions. These results come from one of the most interesting and comprehensive models of exoplanets developed to date. The discovery... |
10 June 2011
08:46 GMT |
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Cray, a company well renowned for its high-performance supercomputers, has just announced the launch of the Cray XK6 HPC system, which pairs together AMD's upcoming Interlagos processors with Nvidia Tesla 2000-series GPGPU compute cards.
The Cray XK6 supercomputer is designed using a modular approach and is ... |
27 May 2011
02:56 GMT |
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According to the director of Project Blue Brain, the first full replica of a functioning human brain will be completed within 12 years. A group of nine top experts in Europe is carrying out the task, led by expert Dr. Henry Markram. The scientist, who holds an appointment as a neuroscientist at the École Polyt... |
19 May 2011
09:27 GMT |
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Experts at the Cornell University conducted a new series of supercomputer simulations on the behavior of the black holes, and were able to observe for the first time how spacetime gets deformed when two such objects collide and merge with each other.This usually happens when two galaxies containing dark behemoths at ... |
14 April 2011
03:33 GMT |
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An advanced model running on an American supercomputer has revealed the existence of a satellite galaxy around the Milky Way. When astronomers looked for it in real-life, they found traces that may indicate its presence. The model is now used to find other galactic companions as well. Astrophysicists have proposed so... |
24 March 2011
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According to experts in chemistry, diamond may in fact have a cousin. They say that T-carbon may be a form of the common chemical that is a bit softer than diamonds, but still harsher than other forms of the stuff, such as for example graphite. Diamond is the most stable and organized form of carbon. It is only produ... |
1 March 2011
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There seems to be no end in sight for the race to build some of the world's fastest supercomputers, and now IBM has revealed the fact that it will actually create yet another such uber-powerful computing solution for the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory.
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10 February 2011
02:51 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new astronomical investigation, it would appear that some of the oldest, most ancient stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, may be immigrants. They may have arrived here from other galaxies, through a variety of means, experts say. They say that not all ancient stars detected by astron... |
21 January 2011
06:49 GMT |
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A team of experts is announcing that authorities in the United States now have extended abilities of modeling the weather and marine forecast for the Great Lakes area. This can now be done in more detail than ever before, and also for longer periods of time.Whereas experts were only able to cover 36 hours in advance ... |
4 January 2011
04:47 GMT |
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In a new theoretical study, investigators were able to develop a computer model complex enough to allow them to accurately simulate what's going on during black hole collisions. In this particular research, a supermassive black hole was pitted against a much smaller black hole. This was basically a reenactment o... |
14 December 2010
02:33 GMT |
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Since many of the world's top supercomputers are powered by Intel's Xeon server processor, it should come as no surprise that the chip manufacturer's interest in this particular field of extreme computing is quite high, its latest endeavor being a collaboration with IBM for the development of "SuperMUC... |
13 December 2010
08:22 GMT |
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Without a doubt, Sony's PS3 is one of the most powerful gaming machines ever released, but it seems that its raw computing power can be put to other uses (beside that of letting gamers play the latest titles), since the US Airforce has just built a supercomputer featuring no less than 1,760 PS3s, that delivers a... |
13 December 2010
04:49 GMT |
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In today's highly environmentally conscious world it isn't enough for supercomputers to be extremely powerful, they also have to be green, so IBM has certainly reasons to brag about their high performance computers being crowned as the most energy efficient in the world, according to the latest Supercomputi... |
23 November 2010
12:11 GMT |
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Intel's goal of going “inside” as many computing solutions as possible is very well on track, and it seems that the chip manufacturer is decided not to limit itself to servers, desktops, notebooks, netbooks and tablets, but's also keen to move to something a little more...breathtaking, namely su... |
15 November 2010
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All major circuits and neural pathways in the human brain will be included in a highly-detailed map of the human brain, to be created over the next 5 years with a $30 million grant.The effort is the first of its kind, and is bound to push the boundaries of science if it succeeds. The sheer complexity of the task at h... |
21 September 2010
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A team of astrophysicists believes it may have discovered the origins of the impressively-large black holes that reside at the core of massive galaxies such as the Milky Way.According to the newest data, it would appear that galaxy collisions that took place in the early Universe are responsible for merging primitive... |
26 August 2010
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Researchers are currently working on developing new types of breakthroughs in the field of computer simulations, given the potential these technologies have for furthering science. At this time, they believe they might have found a way to improve advanced laser experiments.One of the main problems plaguing investigat... |
23 August 2010
02:43 GMT |
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Officials at the US Department of Energy (DOE) announce that the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) will host a number of scientific projects this year, which will all use the facility's world-class supercomputer. Five ANL experts will be leading the project, which together won more than 200 million processor-hou... |
29 July 2010
09:03 GMT |
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Interoperability is critical to boosting IT infrastructure efficiency and driving cost reduction in heterogeneous environments. High-performance computing makes no exception to this rule, with customers running mixed-source solutions needing HPC products to play nice together, and the fact that a Windows and Linux hy... |
1 June 2010
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A group of Swiss experts, based at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), announce the development of a new 3D simulation software, that could in the near future be used to predict a patient's risk of developing heart diseases. The team, based at the EPFL Laboratory of Multiscale Modeling of Materi... |
20 May 2010
10:58 GMT |
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The IBM-built Julich Blue Gene supercomputer, dubbed JUGENE, has recently been rendered capable of conducting simulations of quantum computers. This is a massive breakthrough in the field, since it has been plagued by logistic and technological problems for a long time. Developing a quantum computer has been a long-s... |
31 March 2010
05:16 GMT |
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Scientists at Rice University, alongside colleagues from the Texas Medical Center, are the winners of a $7.6-million award from IBM. The electronics giant will donate an advanced supercomputer to the two institutions, for setting up a biomedical research collaboration to investigate the development of cancer, and pos... |
3 March 2010
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Clouds are some of the most common features in nature. Almost every time you look at the sky, you see one of many types of clouds that form at various heights and have different behaviors. These atmospheric structures can be a sign of rain, or of incoming clear weather, and they can also be found on other planets, wh... |
17 February 2010
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Scientists are currently using tens of thousands of home computers, desktops and laptops, to produce one of the most fundamental descriptions of our galaxy. Researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute want to create a map of the Milky Way, and have turned to common computer users for their help. Each of the p... |
11 February 2010
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The macroscale world is a very well-defined place, with the natural laws of classical physics governing everything. But all that has no relevance at the subatomic, elementary level, where particles appear capable of existing in two places at the same time, and can also spin in different directions concomitantly. Rese... |
2 February 2010
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One of the most potent sources of astronomical knowledge at this point are supercomputer simulations. Powerful processors take into account data that experts input, and then show all possible outcomes in a certain system. However, though significant progress has been made in this field, one large problem endured, and... |
30 January 2010
04:42 GMT |
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The Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is apparently one of the most promising such endeavors in the United States today. As part of it, for 2010, the US Department of Energy (DOE) has alloted more than 1.6 billion supercomputing hours on its machines to about 69 cutti... |
29 January 2010
17:01 GMT |
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Scientists analyzing the night sky and looking at galaxies have attempted over the years to explain why galaxies form in various shapes and sizes, but have been unable to do so despite their best attempts. However, it would appear that, recently, a team has managed a breakthrough, when experts at the Embry-Riddle Uni... |
12 January 2010
02:43 GMT |
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Using nothing more than a home desktop computer, scientist Fabrice Bellard managed to calculate an additional 127 billion digits that followed the number 3 in Pi. The concept is a mathematical constant whose value is the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter in certain kinds of geometry. Usually, t... |
7 January 2010
04:45 GMT |
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In spite of the fact that today's supercomputers are highly advanced and capable of billions of operations per second, they still have difficulties in handling complex tasks such as modeling the Big Bang. However, this line of research is absolutely fundamental to understanding our place and origin in the Univer... |
6 January 2010
04:53 GMT |
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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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