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Thinking War Machines Means to U.S. Security Are Growing Darker and More Dire
Jun 20, 2013WASHINGTON -- Unlike China and Europe, the U.S. has yet to adopt and fund an exascale development program, and concerns about what that means to U.S. security are growing darker and more dire. China's retaking of the global supercomputing ...
Tags: War Machines, Exascale
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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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China Is Creating an Infrastructure to Create a Tech Industry
Jun 13, 2013China isn't just building supercomputers, it's creating an infrastructure to create a tech industry, according to Peter Beckman, a top computer scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and head of the DOE's ...
Tags: supercomputers, tech industry
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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 ...
Tags: Supercomputer, China, US
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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 ...
Tags: Sputnik Moment, China, US
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The Overall Spending Increase, Though Shows a Decline When Adjusted for Inflation
Apr 10, 2013WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's federal budget, released Wednesday, calls for increases in federal research and development spending. The overall spending increase, though shows a decline when adjusted for inflation. The White House ...
Tags: Computer Products, softeware
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The European Union Is Moving to Build a High-Performance Computing Industry
Dec 27, 2012The 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
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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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Congress Will Fund The Project in The Federal Government's Fiscal 2014 Budget
Dec 3, 2012Computerworld-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
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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