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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 ...
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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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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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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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We Will See First Exascale Machine by 2020 If Increase in Supercomputer Speeds Continue
Dec 31, 2012If the increase in supercomputer speeds continue at their current pace, we will see the first exascale machine by 2020, according to the maintainers of the Top500 compilation of the world's fastest systems. System architects of ...
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The U.S. Is Once Again Home to The World's Most Powerful Supercomputer
Dec 20, 2012The U.S. is once again home to the world's most powerful supercomputer, rebounding after it was knocked out of the top spot by China two years ago and Japan last year. The latest Top500 list of supercomputers, released last month, also ...
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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 ...
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Intel Labs and ITRI Recently Co-Announced a Low Energy Experimental Memory Array
Dec 10, 2012Taipei, Dec. 6, 2012 (CENS)--Intel Labs and the Taiwan government-backed Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) recently co-announced a low energy experimental memory array that could significantly advance 3-D stacking and system ...
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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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U.S.Launched What's Expected to Be The World's Fastest Supercomputer at 20 Petaflop
Oct 31, 2012IDG News Service-As the U.S.launched what's expected to be the world's fastest supercomputer at 20 petaflops,China is building a machine that is intended to be five times faster when it is deployed in 2015. China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer ...
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Europe, The US, Japan and China Are Racing to Develop Exascale Machines
Jun 20, 2012Europe, the US, Japan and China are racing to develop the next generation of supercomputer – exascale machines - capable of a million trillion calculations a second by 2020. But why do we need computers as fast as powerful as this? ...
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