Scientists in India, China, Japan, Korea and India have called on their governments to collaborate in developing high-performance supercomputer technology. Scientists from the five countries urged their governments to put aside their ...
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Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday said it had hired former Intel researcher John Gustafson as the chief architect for graphics products, continuing an executive shuffle among chip companies. Gustafson will drive the road map for AMD's ...
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In the seven years since Katrina struck New Orleans, advances in computer power and storm surge modeling is giving the city detailed data about Hurricane Isaac's impact. Computer models have already mapped, on a continuing basis as ...
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HP and Intel have teamed up to design and build a new supercomputing system for the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), which promises to be one of the most efficient installations in the world. ...
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Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices yesterday announced high-performance graphics chips for supercomputers. Nvidia announced GPUs (graphics processing units) called K20 and K20X, with the latter being used in Titan, a 20-petaflop ...
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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 ...
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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will have access to cloud-based supercomputers to run complex engineering simulations, under a euro 16m project backed by the European Commission (EC). The project, part of the EC’s Factory ...
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The new co-processors will be in production in 2012 Intel has unveiled the architecture details of Xeon Phi Co-Processor designed for highly parallel technical applications. Xeon Phi co-processor is based on the Intel ...
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Atlanta-based LexisNexis Risk Solutions has migrated its insurance solutions to its open source, big data processing platform called HPCC Systems. The big data processing platform assists insurers assign premium more accurately and will ...
At Supercomputing 2012 (SC12) in Salt Lake City (12-15 November), Vitesse Semiconductor Corp of Camarillo, CA, USA (which designs ICs for carrier and enterprise networks) and Avago Technologies Ltd of San Jose, CA, USA and Singapore (a ...
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November 14, 2012 -- LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 12 November, 2012 – Incoming CiSE Editor in Chief George K. Thiruvathukal, a computer science professor at Loyola University and co-director of Loyola's Center for Textual Studies and Digital ...
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 ...
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IDG News Service - The Top500 is no longer the only ranking game in town: make way for the Graph 500, which tracks how well supercomputers handle big-data-styled workloads. So while a new Cray supercomputer took first place on theTop500, ...
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SALT LAKE CITY,Utah--A school-yard lesson about the consequences of bad behavior is weighing heavily at this year's supercomputing conference here. Earlier this year,the White House ordered major cutbacks in travel spending by government ...
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The U.S.Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory's newly installed Titan system,a Cray XK7,has been anointed as the world's fastest supercomputer in the newly released 40th edition of the Top500 compilation of the world's fastest ...
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