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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Partnership aims to avoid business disruptions and loss for Philippine local companies and SMEs MANILA, PHILIPPINES, September 10, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Acer Philippines and ShadowProtect software, through IT distribution company ...
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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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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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Cloud computing will move supercomputers out of the research labs and into c, it was claimed this week. Dial-up supercomputing services are making it possible for smaller companies to analyse vast quantities of data, run engineering ...
Cambridge University is turning to technology developed for computer gaming to help it solve some of the fundamental problems of science. Cambridge University is using chips normally found in computer game consoles to drive cutting-edge ...
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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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In booth 3745 at Super Computing 2012 (SC12) in Salt Lake City (12-15 November), high-speed fiber-optic interconnect firm Molex Inc of Lisle, IL, USA is conducting product demonstrations to showcase its expertise in high-speed, high-density ...
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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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When Ken Stephens, a senior vice president of Xerox Cloud Services, tried to hire a product manager from IBM recently, he had quite a shock. "I offered him a 40 percent raise," Stevens said in an interview. "But then IBM came back and gave ...
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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The availability of supercomputing applications to small and medium sized businesses will be the next big thing to happen in the cloud computing market, according a senior systems consultant at IBM. Tikiri Wanduragala told Computerworld ...
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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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StorIT has announced a strategic new distributor partnership agreement with Mellanox Technologies, a supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data centre servers and storage systems. The new alliance positions ...
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