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A Powerful Network of Supercomputers Will Be Built in Japan Over The Next Decade
Apr 3, 2014A powerful network of supercomputers will be built in Japan over the next decade, centered around a next-generation exascale machine and coordinated with projects designed to boost industrial use of the technology. This policy vision, ...
Tags: Supercomputer, Computer Products, Electrical, Electronics
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Intel Has Unveiled a Raft of New Innovations and Software Tools to Tap The Power
Nov 25, 2013Intel has unveiled a raft of new innovations and software tools to tap the power of Big Data at the Supercomputing Conference 2013 held in Denver, Colorado. At the 25th conference for the HPC community, the company revealed how the ...
Tags: Intel, Supercomputing Conference, Big Data
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The Addressable Market Could Eventually Run Into Billions of Units
Oct 16, 2013The addressable market for chip-level optical interconnects could eventually run into billions of units, as revenues rise to almost $520m by 2019 then $1.02bn by 2021, according to the report 'Revenue Opportunities for Optical ...
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Thinking War Machines Means to U.S. Security Are Growing Darker and More Dire
Jun 20, 2013WASHINGTON -- Unlike China and Europe, the U.S. has yet to adopt and fund an exascale development program, and concerns about what that means to U.S. security are growing darker and more dire. China's retaking of the global supercomputing ...
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China Has Produced a Supercomputer That May Be Recognized as The World's Fastest System
Jun 17, 2013China has produced a supercomputer capable of running at 54.9 petaflops that will likely be recognized as the world's fastest system in the forthcoming Top500 list of the world's most powerful computers. The new system -- called Tianhe-2, ...
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China Is Creating an Infrastructure to Create a Tech Industry
Jun 13, 2013China isn't just building supercomputers, it's creating an infrastructure to create a tech industry, according to Peter Beckman, a top computer scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and head of the DOE's ...
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The Chinese Government Spent About $290 Million on It
Jun 3, 2013China has produced a supercomputer capable of 54.9 petaflops, more than twice the speed of any system in the U.S., according to a U.S. researcher who was in China last week and learned the details. China's latest system was built with ...
Tags: Supercomputer, China, US
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The Question About Tornadoes Comes up at His Oklahoma City Data Center Has Answers
May 31, 2013If the question about tornadoes comes up at his Oklahoma City data center, as it sometimes does, Todd Currie, vice president of operations and general manager at Perimeter Technology, has answers. He even has a cutout sample of his roof to ...
Tags: Tornadoes, Data Centers, Oklahoma
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Obama Said America Was Facing a Sputnik Moment
May 28, 2013In October, 2010, China built the world's fastest supercomputer, and three months later President Barack Obama, in his State of the Union speech, said that America was facing a Sputnik moment. Obama renewed calls for higher levels of R&D ...
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The World's Fastest Supercomputer, Titan Is Deploying a New Storage System From DDN
Apr 19, 2013The world's fastest supercomputer, Titan, located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, is deploying a new storage system from DataDirect Networks (DDN) to support its research into climate change impacts and alternative ...
Tags: Computer Products, Supercomputer
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The Overall Spending Increase, Though Shows a Decline When Adjusted for Inflation
Apr 10, 2013WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's federal budget, released Wednesday, calls for increases in federal research and development spending. The overall spending increase, though shows a decline when adjusted for inflation. The White House ...
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IT's the End of The Line for Roadrunner That Reigned as World's Fastest Supercomputer
Apr 2, 2013IT'S the end of the line for Roadrunner, a first-of-its-kind collection of processors that once reigned as the world's fastest supercomputer. The $US121 million ($116m) supercomputer, housed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in northern ...
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IBM & ASTRON Are on The Hunt for Scientists to Attend World's Biggest Big Data Challenge
Mar 26, 2013IBM and ASTRON are on the hunt for scientists to take part in what is described as the world’s biggest big data challenge – researching the origins of the universe. The two organisations are inviting professors, scientists and ...
Tags: IBM, computer systems, computer
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Intel's Aim Is to Lead The Way in Creating The First Exaflop Supercomputer
Feb 20, 2013IDG News Service - Intel's aim is to lead the way in creating the first exaflop supercomputer, so it is making architectural improvements to its processors with the hope to reach that goal between 2018 and 2020. The chip maker is ...
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The US Department of Energy Is Planning to Install 100+ Petaflop Supercomputers
Jan 22, 2013The US Department of Energy is planning to install 100+ petaflop supercomputers within the next four years as the famous national laboratories at Oak Ridge, Argonne and Lawrence Livermore upgrade to more powerful machines. The labs, which ...
Tags: supercomputers, powerful machines, US Department of Energy
