By blending optical technology with low-cost CMOS semiconductor processing,silicon photonics has tremendous potential as a new technology,according to market research firm Yole Développement in its new report'Silicon Photonics ...
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The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has announced £30m in funding for the Janet network, which connects UK research and education institutions together, as well as to the wider internet. The network needs to be ...
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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 ...
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IBM and Hewlett-Packard tied for the top position in server factory revenue in the second quarter, with a 29.2% and 29.6% share respectively, IDC said on Tuesday. But Dell was the only vendor among the top five whose server revenue ...
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Computerworld-Oracle researchers are winding down development of the Fortress programming language for high-performance computing,an effort started nearly 10 years ago by Sun Microsystems. The Defense Advanced Research Projects ...
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In conjunction with the SEMICON West 2012 event in San Francisco,CA,USA(10-12 July),nanoelectronics research center Imec of Leuven,Belgium has announced what it claims is the first realization of functional sub-100nm photonics components ...
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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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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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