The University of Oxford and a consortium of UK academic institutions have deployed what is believed to be the nation's most powerful GPU-accelerated supercomputer. The supercomputer,which uses 372 Nvidia Tesla M2090 GPUs,will be used for ...
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Paul Calleja, director of the high performance computing service at the University of Cambridge, maintains that supercomputers should be accessible to as wide a range of businesses and academic researchers as possible. And that means one ...
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IBM has climbed back to the top of the global supercomputer list with Sequoia,a 1,572,864 core BlueGene/Q system installed at the US Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory-which has achieved 16.32Pflop/s on the Linpack benchmark. ...
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Airbus is considering moving its high-performance computing centre to a colder climate to combat rising power and cooling costs in France and Germany. Airbus CIO Guus Dekkers said the company needs to take action to offset rising energy ...
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Europe, the US, Japan and China are racing to develop the next generation of supercomputer – exascale machines - capable of a million trillion calculations a second by 2020. But why do we need computers as fast as powerful as this? ...
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The next generation of supercomputers will require a radical re-think in technology, as computer design begins to run up against the limits of Moore's law. Research is underway around the world to develop supercomputers containing ...
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The US has overtaken Japan in the race to develop the world's fastest supercomputer. The Sequoia computer at Lawrence Livermoor National Laboratory was today named the most powerful supercomputer,capable of 16.32 petaflop/s. It ...
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Japan's K computer,ranked last year as the world's most powerful supercomputer,is expected to drive breakthroughs in engineering,medicine and science when it enters live operation in October. The machine,developed by Fujitsu and Japan's ...
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