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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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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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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For its next generation of supercomputers,Cray has focused on radically improving the I/O(input/output)of individual nodes.The new XC30 supercomputer will feature a new interconnect,called Aries,and a new routing topology that together ...
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IDG News Service-As the U.S.launched what's expected to be the world's fastest supercomputer at 20 petaflops,China is building a machine that is intended to be five times faster when it is deployed in 2015. China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer ...
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IDG News Service-The U.S.Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory on Monday completed the deployment of a 20-petaflop supercomputer called Titan,which the lab hopes will give the U.S.an edge over China and Japan in the race to ...
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Computerworld - Scientists studying Earth system processes, including climate change, are now working with one of the largest supercomputers on the planet. The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has begun using a 1.5 petaflop ...
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Scientists from the University of Bristol have developed a quantum silicon chip that they say guarantees"absolute security"for computers and smartphones.The technology could be available commercially in less than five years. Unlike ...
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Winner:LANL's George Kyrala Six high-energy laser researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory(LLNL)and a seventh from Los Alamos National Laboratory(LANL)have won the American Physical Society's 2012 John Dawson Award for ...
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With downward price pressures, the excess capacity that providers must have on hand for peak traffic becomes a drag on profits. After the cloud gold-rush era is over, providers will need to find ways to turn that cost center into a profit ...
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The University of Oxford and a consortium of UK academic institutions have deployed what is believed to be the nation's most powerful GPU-accelerated supercomputer. The supercomputer,which uses 372 Nvidia Tesla M2090 GPUs,will be used for ...
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Apple is running servers from IBM and Oracle with flavors of the Unix operating system at its Maiden, N.C. data center, according to a job entry posted on the company's website. Apple is looking for a Solaris systems engineer with five ...
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Paul Calleja, director of the high performance computing service at the University of Cambridge, maintains that supercomputers should be accessible to as wide a range of businesses and academic researchers as possible. And that means one ...
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IBM has climbed back to the top of the global supercomputer list with Sequoia,a 1,572,864 core BlueGene/Q system installed at the US Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory-which has achieved 16.32Pflop/s on the Linpack benchmark. ...
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Airbus is considering moving its high-performance computing centre to a colder climate to combat rising power and cooling costs in France and Germany. Airbus CIO Guus Dekkers said the company needs to take action to offset rising energy ...
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