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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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Tilera Is Developing a New Chip That Will Have Over 100 Processor Cores
Feb 21, 2013After a lull, the race to add more processor cores to chips continues. Tilera is developing a new chip that will have more than 100 processor cores as the company looks to outperform ARM and Intel processors in Web-specific tasks. The ...
Tags: Tilera, plus cores, processor cores
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Intel Has Purchased Whamcloud So as to Fortify Its Resources for The HPC Market
Dec 31, 2012IDG News Service-Fortifying its resources for the high-performance computing(HPC)market,Intel has purchased Whamcloud,a commercial purveyor of the open-source Lustre file system.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Intel plans to use ...
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ARM and Imagination Technologies Have United to Acquire Semiconductor MIPS
Dec 24, 2012ARM and Imagination Technologies have united to acquire semiconductor designer MIPS Technologies, with ARM paying the lion's share of the purchase price to snap up MIPS' patent portfolio, while Imagination will acquire MIPS' operational ...
Tags: ARM, Imagination Technologies, MIPS Technologies, patent war
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Dell Has Developed a Line of Servers Based on Designs The Company
Dec 20, 2012Dell has developed a line of servers based on designs the company is using in an upcoming 10-petaflop supercomputer called Stampede, which will be fully deployed at the University of Texas, Austin, starting next year. The PowerEdge C8000 ...
Tags: Dell, line of servers, supercomputer, Stampede
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Micro Devices Had Hired Former Intel Researcher John Gustafson
Dec 19, 2012Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday said it had hired former Intel researcher John Gustafson as the chief architect for graphics products, continuing an executive shuffle among chip companies. Gustafson will drive the road map for AMD's ...
Tags: Advanced Micro Devices, Intel researcher, chief architect
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Servers Based on Designs The Company Is Implementing in an Upcoming Supercomputer
Dec 18, 2012Dell announced servers based on designs the company is implementing in an upcoming 10-petaflop supercomputer called Stampede, which will be fully deployed at the University of Texas, Austin, starting next year. The PowerEdge C8000 servers ...
Tags: Dell, servers, supercomputer, Stampede
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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. ...
Tags: highlightedpost, HP, Intel, supercomputers
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Nvidia&Advanced Micro Devices Announced High-Performance Graphics Chips for Supercomputers
Dec 18, 2012Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices yesterday announced high-performance graphics chips for supercomputers. Nvidia announced GPUs (graphics processing units) called K20 and K20X, with the latter being used in Titan, a 20-petaflop ...
Tags: Advanced Micro Devices, AMD, chips, graphics processing units, Nvidia
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DELL Has Announced Servers Based on Designs The Company Is Implementing in Stampede
Dec 17, 2012Dell has announced servers based on designs the company is implementing in an upcoming 10-petaflop supercomputer called Stampede, which will be fully deployed next year. The PowerEdge C8000 servers use standard Intel x86 CPUs and offer ...
Tags: Dell, Petabyte, Petaflop, servers, supercomputers
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DELL Has Developed A Line of Servers,The PowerEdge C8000 Servers
Dec 17, 2012Dell has developed a line of servers based on designs the company is using in an upcoming 10-petaflop supercomputer called Stampede, which will be fully deployed at the University of Texas, Austin, starting next year. The PowerEdge C8000 ...
Tags: Dell, PowerEdge, server, supercomputer
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The New Co-Processors Will Be in Production in 2012
Dec 11, 2012The new co-processors will be in production in 2012 Intel has unveiled the architecture details of Xeon Phi Co-Processor designed for highly parallel technical applications. Xeon Phi co-processor is based on the Intel ...
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Cray Has Focused on Radically Improving The I/O(Input/Output)of Individual Nodes
Nov 8, 2012For 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 ...
Tags: Cray, supercomputer, I/O, Cray's XC30, XC architecture
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IBM Has Climbed Back to The Top of The Global Supercomputer List
Jun 25, 2012IBM 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. ...
Tags: IBM, supercomputer, Sequoia, BlueGene/Q, Intel, processors