Backed by 100 technology companies, the three largest memory makers announced the final specifications for three-dimensional DRAM, which is aimed at increasing performance for networking and high-performance computing markets. Micron, ...
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Fabless silicon CMOS photonics firm Luxtera of Carlsbad, CA, USA is participating in the Optical Internetworking Forum’s (OIF) multi-vendor 4 x 25G chip-to-module interoperability demonstration at the Optical Fiber Communication ...
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At the Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2013) in Anaheim (17-21 March), Kotura Inc of Monterey Park, CA, USA, which designs and makes silicon photonics application-specific integrated circuits ...
GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical components enabling high-speed end-to-end information streaming) is showcasing its 100Gbps networking technology in booth 3113 at the Optical Fiber ...
Silicon photonics firm Kotura Inc of Monterey Park, CA, USA, which designs and makes silicon photonics application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for the communications, computing, sensing and detection markets, has reported revenue ...
Tags: Kotura, silicon photonics, Lighting
Achronix, the high performance FPGA specialist, is sampling customers with products made on Intel’s 22nm finfet process. "We’re sampling several customers," Achronix CEO Robert Blake, told EW. That’s between 10 to 50 ...
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Oracle has sold assets related to the Lustre parallel distributed file system to high-performance computing storage vendor Xyratex, which has pledged to lead further development of the software in its current collaborative open-source ...
Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) technology is poised to take a bow in the high-performance computing space as a potential answer to the problem of one of the main bottlenecks in computing - the poor relative-performance of memory. After that, the ...
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The US Department of Energy is planning to install 100+ petaflop supercomputers within the next four years as the famous national laboratories at Oak Ridge, Argonne and Lawrence Livermore upgrade to more powerful machines. The labs, which ...
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Facebook has proposed a new model for designing servers that it says will give businesses more choice in selecting components and a smarter way to upgrade systems when needs change, though it remains to be seen how widely its method will be ...
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Boby Joseph, CEO of StorIT Data storage distributor StorIT has announced that it now offers Mellanox’s high-performance computing (HPC) solutions for the oil and gas sector, which, the firm says, will help regional oil and gas ...
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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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 ...