Intermolecular (IMI) and First Solar announced they have entered into a two-year collaboration and licensing agreement focused on further increases to the conversion efficiency of First Solar's cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cell ...
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Intermolecular Inc of San Jose,CA,USA and First Solar Inc of Tempe,AZ,USA have entered into a two-year collaboration and licensing agreement focused on further increases to the conversion efficiency of First Solar's cadmium ...
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For high performance computing(HPC)cluster Bull Information Systems has signed what it calls a strategic alliance deal,valued at around 800,000 pound,with the University of Liverpool. Under the terms of the deal,which incorporates a ...
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New sales and services directors as firm aims for 'Bull 3.0' Bull UK & Ireland announced the appointment of sales director, Nayan Kotecha and services director, Jackie Raybould to its senior management team. Both took up their new posts ...
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IDG News Service-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. Fortress was meant to provide a superior ...
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The former Home and Personal Care (HPC) business unit of Rexam has been established as a new company clalled KubeTech Custom Molding. KubeTech Custom Molding president and CEO Steve Wirrig said the company aims to be the preferred choice ...
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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 ...
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Steve Jobs was right about apps in more ways than perhaps he ever knew. The concept of using apps to make software easily available and affordable to large numbers is arriving in high-performance computing (HPC). There is a new effort to ...
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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. ...
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The All Spark Cube began as a project to demonstrate Cloud and HPC workload management software. Designed by Adaptive Computing the All Spark Cube is a 16 x 16 x 16 full color LED Cube. All Spark LED Cube Image courtesy of Geekologie ...
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Academic supercomputer gets 27 PB of HPC storage The University of Edinburgh-based HECToR (High-End Computing Terascale Resource) supercomputer has had an HPC storage upgrade that includes 7.8 petabytes (PB) in a DataDirect Networks array ...
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IDG News Service - Intel on Monday said it is developing high-performance server chips that in the future will serve up faster results from cloud services or data-intensive applications like analytics, all while cutting electricity bills in ...
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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 ...
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With an eye for better serving big data projects, Oracle and partner Fujitsu have commenced building the next generation of Sparc64 processors, in a project called Athena. The new design will feature a number of new features, including a ...
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