BP’s business activities in the US helped generate more than $147 billion in economic impact in 2012 and support more than a quarter million American jobs, the company’s Group Chief Executive Bob Dudley will announce today in a ...
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GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components enabling high-speed end-to-end information streaming over optical fiber and wireless networks) is showcasing drivers, ...
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IBM is working to develop microservers based on low-power processors but isn’t sure yet when the systems will be introduced. The company has already built a prototype board that could function as microserver but has yet to determine ...
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GE Global Research—the technology development arm of the General Electric Co.—discussed research that, it believes, could significantly impact the design of future wind turbine blades. Using high-performance computing (HPC) to ...
The federal government is making one of the most powerful supercomputers in its computing arsenal available to any U.S. businesses that can help make the country more competitive. The system is the 5 petaflop Vulcan (one petaflop equals ...
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WASHINGTON -- Unlike China and Europe, the U.S. has yet to adopt and fund an exascale development program, and concerns about what that means to U.S. security are growing darker and more dire. China's retaking of the global supercomputing ...
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China has produced a supercomputer capable of running at 54.9 petaflops that will likely be recognized as the world's fastest system in the forthcoming Top500 list of the world's most powerful computers. The new system -- called Tianhe-2, ...
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Thin clients introduced this week by Dell and Hewlett-Packard have faster processors than existing thin clients as well as high-definition graphics capabilities, so they could be alternatives to traditional PCs as computing continues moving ...
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Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc says that vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) devices using wafers produced at its Cardiff, UK facility have broken the 40Gb/s barrier at high temperatures, which is reckoned to be a ...
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Anyone remotely within the orbit of SAP lately knows that its number-one focus is the HANA in-memory database and development platform. At this week's Sapphire conference in Orlando, the vendor sought to show the progress it is making in ...
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May 13, 2013 — High-level simulations reveal that plastic deformation in super-resilient alloys is governed by atomic zones with characteristic lengths. Quick-cooling molten atoms give metal alloys a glassy, or random, atomic ...
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It was launched as a beta programme in December 2012 Intel has launched the software development kit (SDK) for Open CL Applications XE 2013 integrated development environment (IDE) for Windows and Linux. Aimed at supporting the firm's ...
Supercomputer manufacturer Cray has expanded its portfolio of systems for the technical enterprise market. The company’s newest machine, the Cray XC30-AC, starting at $500,000, was built for mid-sized organisations that need some ...
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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's federal budget, released Wednesday, calls for increases in federal research and development spending. The overall spending increase, though shows a decline when adjusted for inflation. The White House ...
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IT'S the end of the line for Roadrunner, a first-of-its-kind collection of processors that once reigned as the world's fastest supercomputer. The $US121 million ($116m) supercomputer, housed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in northern ...