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Infinera and Centurylink Deliver 1.5tb/s of Super-Channel DWDM Capacity at Supercomputing 2015
Nov 18, 2015Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical transport networking systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), and global communications, hosting, ...
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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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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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Nvidia Wants to Accelerate Mobile-Device Performance with Underlying Tools
Jun 18, 2013Nvidia wants to accelerate mobile-device performance with underlying tools that enable CPUs and graphics processors to work in a coherent manner. The company released on Tuesday its CUDA 5.5 programming tools, which will for the first ...
Tags: Nvidia, Programming Tools, Mobile Device
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The Supercomputing Arms Race Is Heating up Again Between The United States and China
Jun 17, 2013The supercomputing arms race is heating up again between the United States and China, as China retakes the top spot in the 41st Top500 listing of the world's most powerful supercomputers with Tianhe-2, an updated system that was able to ...
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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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Smartphone and Tablet Chips Are Making Their Way Into High-Performance Computers
Jun 14, 2013Smartphone and tablet chips are now making their way into high-performance computers, providing an energy-efficient alternative to the power-hungry server chips used in the world's fastest supercomputers. The Barcelona Supercomputing ...
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Cloud Computing Will Move Supercomputers out of The Research Labs and Into C
Dec 25, 2012Cloud computing will move supercomputers out of the research labs and into c, it was claimed this week. Dial-up supercomputing services are making it possible for smaller companies to analyse vast quantities of data, run engineering ...
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Scientists in Asian Have Called on Governments to Collaborate in Developing Supercomputers
Dec 20, 2012Scientists in India, China, Japan, Korea and India have called on their governments to collaborate in developing high-performance supercomputer technology. Scientists from the five countries urged their governments to put aside their ...
Tags: supercomputer, India, China, Japan, Korea, supercomputer technology, IT
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HP and Intel Have Teamed up to Design and Build a New Supercomputing System
Dec 18, 2012HP and Intel have teamed up to design and build a new supercomputing system for the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), which promises to be one of the most efficient installations in the world. ...
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The U.S.Dept.of Energy Is Now Targeting 2020 to 2022 for an Exascale System
Dec 17, 2012The 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 ...
Tags: The U.S.Dept.of Energy, world's largest supercomputers, exascale system
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SMEs Will Have Access to Cloud-Based Supercomputers to Run Complex Engineering Simulations
Dec 17, 2012Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will have access to cloud-based supercomputers to run complex engineering simulations, under a euro 16m project backed by the European Commission (EC). The project, part of the EC’s Factory ...
Tags: SMEs, supercomputers, EU
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China Has Impressed Analysts with Its Rocket-Speed Commitment to HPC
Nov 20, 2012U.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
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The Top500 Is No Longer The Only Ranking Game in Town: Make Way for The Graph 500
Nov 16, 2012IDG 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, ...
Tags: Powerful, Big, Data Machines
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A School-Yard Lesson About The Consequences of Bad Behavior Is Weighing Heavily
Nov 14, 2012SALT 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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