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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CBR talks to desktop GPU-cum-mobile 'system on a chip' maker NVidia about the major players in the mobile space, and what we can expect from the company in 2012. CBR talks to the maker of the Tegra 3 quad core system on a chip (SOC) ...
Tags: NVidia, chip'maker, Google Nexus 7 tablet, transition
FirePro S10000 delivers 1.48 TFLOPS of double-precision floating-point calculations AMD has launched new server graphics card, FirePro S10000, which the company said is designed for high-performance computing (HPC) workloads and ...
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Australia - Healesville's newly refurbished Memorial Hall is now known as 'The 'Memo', a new cultural focus for the Healesville and Yarra Valley region. It has a contemporary art space, a 300 seat performing arts facility and 3D digital ...
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Flexible packaging supplier in the US, Glenroy has launched a tie layer technology for foil-based flexible packaging, High Performance Component (HPC), which is manufactured with extrusion lamination equipment. The new HPC has been ...
In booth 3745 at Super Computing 2012 (SC12) in Salt Lake City (10-16 November), high-speed fiber-optic interconnect firm Molex Inc of Lisle, IL, USA has announced the availability of its QSFP+ low-power 56Gbps Fourteen Data Rate active ...
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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 ...
Tags: U.S., China, HPC platform, Earl Joseph, Tianhe-1A system
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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Cray on Friday agreed to acquire server maker Appro International for US$25 million in cash as it looks to strengthen its high-performance computing product portfolio. Cray will integrate Appro's operations into a new Cluster ...
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Amazon has introduced the second generation of its EC2 computing on-demand infrastructure as a service cloud service, with higher performance processing designed for larger applications. The Second Generation Standard Instances offer 50% ...
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By blending optical technology with low-cost CMOS semiconductor processing,silicon photonics has tremendous potential as a new technology,according to market research firm Yole Développement in its new report'Silicon Photonics ...
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Computerworld-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. The Defense Advanced Research Projects ...
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Simulating the Mars mission Computational curiosity Landing system IT has been key to successfully landing the rover robot Curiosity, on Mars earlier this week. Mars missions in the past have not had a great track record. But the landing ...
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Close your eyes and think of the cloud.Odds are Amazon quickly comes to mind--for good reason.By some estimates,Amazon Web Services holds 70 percent of the IaaS(infrastructure as a service)market,providing compute,storage,and networking ...
Tags: IaaS provider, HP, Microsoft, Google, Amazon
Intermolecular Inc of San Jose,CA,USA has announced an ongoing project with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology(KAUST)for the enhancement of copper indium gallium diselenide(CIGS)thin-film photovoltaic(PV)manufacturing ...
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