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. ...
Tags: European Union, ARM Holdings technology, ARM Chips, Supercomputing Edge
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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As supercomputers grow more powerful, they’ll also grow more vulnerable to failure, thanks to the increased amount of built-in componentry. A few researchers at the recent SC12 conference, held last week in Salt Lake City, offered ...
Tags: Exascale, Resilience, supercomputers, computer
The U.S.Dept.of Energy,which builds the world's largest supercomputers,is now targeting 2020 to 2022 for an exascale system,two to four years later than earlier expectations. The new timeframe assumes that Congress will fund the project ...
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Computerworld-Budget woes are forcing the U.S.Department of Energy to extend by two to four years its target for finishing work on an exascale system,increasing the chance that the Chinese will get there first. At last month's SC12 ...
Tags: Budget woes, U.S., exascale system, Chinese
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 ...
Tags: Molex, AOC, FDR, integrated cable
At Supercomputing 2012 (SC12) in Salt Lake City (12-15 November), Vitesse Semiconductor Corp of Camarillo, CA, USA (which designs ICs for carrier and enterprise networks) and Avago Technologies Ltd of San Jose, CA, USA and Singapore (a ...
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November 14, 2012 -- LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 12 November, 2012 – Incoming CiSE Editor in Chief George K. Thiruvathukal, a computer science professor at Loyola University and co-director of Loyola's Center for Textual Studies and Digital ...
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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SALT LAKE CITY,Utah--A school-yard lesson about the consequences of bad behavior is weighing heavily at this year's supercomputing conference here. Earlier this year,the White House ordered major cutbacks in travel spending by government ...
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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 ...
Tags: Cray, IBM, fastest supercomputers, 560, 640 processors