IDG News Service-Fortifying its resources for the high-performance computing(HPC)market,Intel has purchased Whamcloud,a commercial purveyor of the open-source Lustre file system.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Intel plans to use ...
If the increase in supercomputer speeds continue at their current pace, we will see the first exascale machine by 2020, according to the maintainers of the Top500 compilation of the world's fastest systems. System architects of ...
Tags: SC2012, Exascale Computing, US, IT technology
The European Union is moving to build a high-performance computing industry to challenge U.S. dominance, but it doesn't want to play catch-up. It wants to leapfrog and it is seeing whether ARM Holdings technology can give it that edge. ...
Tags: European Union, ARM Holdings technology, ARM Chips, Supercomputing Edge
After last night's presidential debate, the possible fate of Big Bird is now known. But the rival candidates gave no insight into the possible fate of exascale systems, the next generation of supercomputers. In the 90-minute debate ...
Tags: Big Bird, exascale systems, supercomputers
Cloud computing will move supercomputers out of the research labs and into c, it was claimed this week. Dial-up supercomputing services are making it possible for smaller companies to analyse vast quantities of data, run engineering ...
Cambridge University is turning to technology developed for computer gaming to help it solve some of the fundamental problems of science. Cambridge University is using chips normally found in computer game consoles to drive cutting-edge ...
Tags: Cambridge University, computer gaming, chips, graphical processing
The U.S. is once again home to the world's most powerful supercomputer, rebounding after it was knocked out of the top spot by China two years ago and Japan last year. The latest Top500 list of supercomputers, released last month, also ...
Tags: U.S., supercomputer, top spot
Fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale,CA,USA and UK-headquartered Xyratex Ltd,a provider of data storage technology,with give a joint technology demonstration at the European Conference on ...
Tags: Finisar Optical Interconnect, Data Centre Subsystem, CA, USA
As supercomputers grow more powerful, they’ll also grow more vulnerable to failure, thanks to the increased amount of built-in componentry. A few researchers at the recent SC12 conference, held last week in Salt Lake City, offered ...
Tags: Exascale, Resilience, supercomputers, computer
The U.S.Dept.of Energy,which builds the world's largest supercomputers,is now targeting 2020 to 2022 for an exascale system,two to four years later than earlier expectations. The new timeframe assumes that Congress will fund the project ...
Tags: The U.S.Dept.of Energy, world's largest supercomputers, exascale system
The new coprocessors are combined with Intel Xeon processor E5 family is expected to increase the computational capabilities over Petascale Chipmaker Intel has introduced the new Xeon Phi coprocessors, which are expected to cater to the ...
Tags: coprocessors, Intel, processor
Taipei, Dec. 6, 2012 (CENS)--Intel Labs and the Taiwan government-backed Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) recently co-announced a low energy experimental memory array that could significantly advance 3-D stacking and system ...
Tags: Intel Labs, ITRI, new array
Astronomers building a kilometer-sized radio telescope are depending on 60-year-old magnetic tape technology to store the 1 million GB of data per day they plan to generate. The Square Kilometre Array(SKA)is a radio telescope being built ...
Tags: SKA telescope, exascale computer system, deep-space data, ASTRON, IBM
Computerworld-Budget woes are forcing the U.S.Department of Energy to extend by two to four years its target for finishing work on an exascale system,increasing the chance that the Chinese will get there first. At last month's SC12 ...
Tags: Budget woes, U.S., exascale system, Chinese
U.S.efforts to develop the next-generation high performance computing(HPC)platform are lagging because they don't have government funding.In China,it's a much different story. China has impressed analysts with its rocket-speed commitment ...
Tags: U.S., China, HPC platform, Earl Joseph, Tianhe-1A system