The new co-processors will be in production in 2012 Intel has unveiled the architecture details of Xeon Phi Co-Processor designed for highly parallel technical applications. Xeon Phi co-processor is based on the Intel ...
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CBR talks to desktop GPU-cum-mobile 'system on a chip' maker NVidia about the major players in the mobile space, and what we can expect from the company in 2012. CBR talks to the maker of the Tegra 3 quad core system on a chip (SOC) ...
Tags: NVidia, chip'maker, Google Nexus 7 tablet, transition
ARM CEO and UKtech50winner Warren East tells Computer Weekly how the ubiquity of its chips in smartphones has catapulted the company to the forefront of the mobile revolution and why its business model is crucial to fostering the innovation ...
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IDG News Service - The Top500 is no longer the only ranking game in town: make way for the Graph 500, which tracks how well supercomputers handle big-data-styled workloads. So while a new Cray supercomputer took first place on theTop500, ...
Tags: Powerful, Big, Data Machines
The U.S.Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory's newly installed Titan system,a Cray XK7,has been anointed as the world's fastest supercomputer in the newly released 40th edition of the Top500 compilation of the world's fastest ...
Tags: Cray, IBM, fastest supercomputers, 560, 640 processors
Cray on Friday agreed to acquire server maker Appro International for US$25 million in cash as it looks to strengthen its high-performance computing product portfolio. Cray will integrate Appro's operations into a new Cluster ...
Tags: California, Cray, Appro, Cluster Solutions division
For its next generation of supercomputers,Cray has focused on radically improving the I/O(input/output)of individual nodes.The new XC30 supercomputer will feature a new interconnect,called Aries,and a new routing topology that together ...
Tags: Cray, supercomputer, I/O, Cray's XC30, XC architecture
IDG News Service-As the U.S.launched what's expected to be the world's fastest supercomputer at 20 petaflops,China is building a machine that is intended to be five times faster when it is deployed in 2015. China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer ...
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IDG News Service-The U.S.Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory on Monday completed the deployment of a 20-petaflop supercomputer called Titan,which the lab hopes will give the U.S.an edge over China and Japan in the race to ...
Tags: U.S.supercomputing, 20-petaflop Titan, U.S.DOE, ORNL
Computerworld - Scientists studying Earth system processes, including climate change, are now working with one of the largest supercomputers on the planet. The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has begun using a 1.5 petaflop ...
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Earlier this summer, I had the opportunity to gain a vantage point on the pace of change we're seeing in IT. To really get a grasp on it, though, I had to go back to Roman times. What I came away with was a confirmation that we are now ...
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Scientists from the University of Bristol have developed a quantum silicon chip that they say guarantees"absolute security"for computers and smartphones.The technology could be available commercially in less than five years. Unlike ...
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Professor Anders Larsson of Sweden's Chalmers University of Technology is one of 61 university professors in 46 institutions worldwide selected from more than 500 proposals for a 2012 HP Labs Innovation Research Award.He has been awarded ...
Tags: Anders Larsson, VCSEL, HP Labs'Innovation Research Award
With downward price pressures, the excess capacity that providers must have on hand for peak traffic becomes a drag on profits. After the cloud gold-rush era is over, providers will need to find ways to turn that cost center into a profit ...
Tags: cloud service, IT industry, IT technology, SETI
Computerworld - Editor's note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that Mitt Romney's platform describes government's basic research efforts as an area Romney "plans to cut."Romney says research is important to innovation and ...