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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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