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HP Has Joined Nvidia's Growing Grid Alliance
Aug 21, 2013Hewlett-Packard has joined Nvidia's growing Grid alliance, equipping a Gen8 Proliant blade server with graphics boards that can speed up and lower the cost of virtual desktop deployments. Nvidia's Grid boards consist of multiple graphics ...
Tags: HP, Computer Products
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Nvidia's Upcoming Tegra 5 Mobile Chip Will Have Features to Handle Graphics Capabilities
Jul 24, 2013Augmented reality, image recognition and other multimedia features could be standard in future smartphones and tablets, and Nvidia's upcoming Tegra 5 mobile chip will have features to handle such demanding graphics capabilities. Nvidia on ...
Tags: Nvidia, High-End Graphics, Tegra 5
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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 ...
Tags: Smartphone, tablet chips
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Smartphone Chips Could One Day Replace The More Expensive and Power-Hungry X86 Processors
May 30, 2013Looking at historical trends and performance benchmarks, a team of researchers in Spain have concluded that smartphone chips could one day replace the more expensive and power-hungry x86 processors used in most of the world's top ...
Tags: Smartphone Chips, Computer Products, Consumer Electronics
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Dell's Research Division Are Putting Together The Pieces for Prototype ARM Supercomputers
Apr 3, 2013Not fazed by a takeover battle looming on the sidelines, members of Dell's research division are putting together the pieces for prototype ARM supercomputers that could be deployed in the future. Dell has a good idea what an ARM ...
Tags: DELL, Computer Products, software
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Members of Dell's Research Division Put Together The Pieces for ARM Supercomputers
Apr 2, 2013Not fazed by a takeover battle looming on the sidelines, members of Dell’s research division are putting together the pieces for prototype ARM supercomputers that could be deployed in the future. Dell has a good idea what an ARM ...
Tags: Dell, supercomputers, computer
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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 ...
Tags: SC2012, Exascale Computing, US, IT technology
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China Will Take The Wraps off Its Latest 8-Core Godson Processor
Dec 31, 2012IDG News Service - China will take the wraps off its latest 8-core Godson processor early next year to show its chip-making ability compared to Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and ARM. Loongson Technology, partly funded by the Chinese ...
Tags: PCs, Servers, 8-core Godson processor, Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, ARM
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Advanced Micro Devices Is Looking to Speed up The Delivery of Virtual Desktops
Dec 25, 2012Advanced Micro Devices is looking to speed up the delivery of virtual desktops through servers with its latest FirePro S9000 and S7000 graphics cards, which the company started shipping on Monday. The FirePro S9000 server graphics card ...
Tags: AMD, virtual desktops, FirePro S9000, graphics cards
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The Possible Fate of Big Bird Is Now Known
Dec 25, 2012After last night's presidential debate, the possible fate of Big Bird is now known. But the rival candidates gave no insight into the possible fate of exascale systems, the next generation of supercomputers. In the 90-minute debate ...
Tags: Big Bird, exascale systems, 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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Intel to Deliver Performance and Power-Efficiency Breakthroughs to Servers
Dec 17, 2012Intel hopes to deliver performance and power-efficiency breakthroughs to servers with the new Xeon Phi family of processors, the first model of which is now shipping to customers, the company said on Monday. Chips in the Xeon Phi range, ...
Tags: Intel, power efficiency, server, CPU
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U.S.Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Newly Installed Titan System
Nov 12, 2012The 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
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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 ...
Tags: Tianhe-2, supercomputer, China
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory Completed The Deployment of a 20-Petaflop Supercomputer
Oct 29, 2012IDG News Service-The U.S.Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory on Monday completed the deployment of a 20-petaflop supercomputer called Titan,which the lab hopes will give the U.S.an edge over China and Japan in the race to ...
Tags: U.S.supercomputing, 20-petaflop Titan, U.S.DOE, ORNL