Avago Technologies has announced its new active optical cable (AOC) family, high-density SFP+ QSFP+ and CXP solutions for high-performance computing (HPC) and data-center applications. The firm says that the active optical cable assemblies ...
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Eyeing the growing market for big data analysis,Amazon Web Services(AWS)has introduced a storage package,called High Storage,that can offer fast access to large amounts of data. High Storage,an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2)package,is ...
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Read more on ARM Chipmakers AMD and ARM join forces to improve security An introduction to the ARM server HP has high hopes for low-energy ARM servers News roundup: Chef does Windows, XP turns 10, and HP ARMs its servers Mobile telemedicine ...
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Amazon has introduced a computer cluster at its facility in Ireland to support European high-performance computing applications in the Amazon cloud. The Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large (cc2.8xl) instance includes a pair of Intel Xeon ...
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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 ...
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Matrox Avio, Maevex, and Mura MPX Series paired with NVIDIA Quadro K5000 GPU workstation at Exxact booth #2068 Matrox and Exxact Corporation today announced a joint demonstration, at I/ITSEC 2012, that will show how ...
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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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The University of Cambridge and Imperial College are pooling their resources to create a high-performance computing (HPC) service that will offer some of the UK’s fastest computer resources to industry through the cloud. The ...
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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 data centres. ...
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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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Google is expanding its infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud computing platform into Europe and cutting the price of its cloud-based storage by 20%. From December 1 2012 the price for up to 1TB of storage will be reduced by $0.025 per ...
FirePro S9000 and S7000 are designed to meet the multiple data centre deployment requirements Semiconductor firm AMD has launched two new server graphics cards, FirePro S9000 and S7000, for compute, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) ...
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 ...
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New chips will enhance server communications Intel is planning to incorporate a converged fabric controller into its Xeon server chips to be developed in next five years, which is expected to enhance server communication while offering ...
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'Roadrunner' supports the AMD Opteron 6000 Series processors Semiconductor company AMD has unveiled a new Open Compute Project server platform specification, code named 'Roadrunner,' which is designed to meet the general purpose compute, ...
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