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Airlight and IBM Partner to Bring Affordable Solar Technology to Market by 2017
Sep 30, 2014Airlight Energy of Biasca, Switzerland, which supplies proprietary technology for large-scale production of electricity using solar power and for energy storage, has partnered with IBM Research, aiming to bring affordable solar technology ...
Tags: CPV IBM, Electrical, Electronics
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Intel Hopes to Take Hardware Performance to The Next Level with Xeon Phi Chip
Jul 7, 2014Intel hopes to take hardware performance to the next level with its latest Xeon Phi supercomputing chip, which packs an array of new hardware technologies that could eventually find their way to laptops and desktops. The new Xeon Phi ...
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New Supercomputer Being Deployed This Month in The U.S. Is Using Solid-State Drive Storage
Nov 6, 2013A new supercomputer being deployed this month in the U.S. is using solid-state drive storage as an alternative to DRAM and hard drives, which could help speed up internal data transfers. The supercomputer, called Catalyst, will be ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, Supercomputer
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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, ...
Tags: Supercomputing, Tianhe-2
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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Members of Dell's Research Division Put Together The Pieces for ARM Supercomputers
Apr 2, 2013Not fazed by a takeover battle looming on the sidelines, members of Dell’s research division are putting together the pieces for prototype ARM supercomputers that could be deployed in the future. Dell has a good idea what an ARM ...
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Nvidia Wants Graphics Processors to Create Avatars with Realistic Human Faces
Mar 19, 2013Nvidia wants graphics processors to create avatars with realistic human faces, and power visual searches in which images can be identified to produce matching search results. Those are already possible with Nvidia's fastest graphics ...
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Nvidia Wants to Bump up Graphics and Application Performance on Tablets and Smartphones
Mar 19, 2013Nvidia wants to bump up graphics and application performance on tablets and smartphones with the two new Tegra mobile processors it announced on Tuesday. The new Tegra processors will be called Logan and Parker, and will succeed the Tegra ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, Nvidia, Smartphone
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Nvidia on Tuesday Announced The GeForce GTX Titan
Feb 21, 2013Nvidia on Tuesday announced the GeForce GTX Titan, a GPU designed to handle the most demanding games by harnessing the processing power of 2,668 graphics cores. The GPU, which the company claims is the world's fastest graphics processor, ...
Tags: Nvidia, graphics processor, GPU
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Cambridge University Turns to Technology Developed for Computer Gaming
Dec 24, 2012Cambridge 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 ...
Tags: Cambridge University, computer gaming, chips, graphical processing
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Amazon Introduced Computer Cluster to Support High-Performance Computing Applications
Dec 20, 2012Amazon 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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U.S.Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Newly Installed Titan System
Nov 12, 2012The 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 ...
Tags: Cray, IBM, fastest supercomputers, 560, 640 processors