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5 hrs ago | Internet News

Europe Jumps Into HPC Fray ...

A company known for wearable PCs comes out with its own supercomputer design. What does it have that IBM and HP doesn't? November 25, 2009 By : The recent Top500 supercomputer list showed that high-performance computing is pretty much an IBM and HP world.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Hewlett Packard, IBM, CPU, Science, Computer Science, Computers

13 hrs ago | Lockergnome Nexus

IBM Says Hasta La Vista To Cell Processor

Long a mainstay in a few important supercomputers, and of course, the Sony PlayStation 3, the IBM Cell processor was a chip that always promised more than was shown.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, CPU, PlayStation 3, Video Games, Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox

21 hrs ago | Channel Register

Fujitsu gung-ho on eight-core 'Venus' Sparc

SC09 Is Japan's 10 petaflops supercomputer on the chopping block? Fujitsu won't say.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, CPU

Fri Nov 27, 2009

The Register

Cray previews XT6 Opteron nodes

SC09 The SC09 supercomputing trade show finished up late last week, but El Reg still has a bunch of things to tell you about.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, CPU, Semiconductors, Advanced Micro Devices

PhysOrg Weblog

More than powerful: German research computer QPACE is the most energy efficient in the world

At the 2009 Supercomputing Conference in Portland, Oregon, the high-performance computer QPACE was recognized today as the most energy-efficient supercomputer in the world.

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Related Topix: CPU, Science / Technology, Computers, Science, Computer Science, IBM, Physics

The Register

Nvidia previews next-gen Fermi GPUs

SC09 Graphics chip maker and soon-to-be big-time HPC player Nvidia raised the curtain a little higher on its next-generation of graphics co-processors at the SC09 supercomputing trade show in Portland, Oregon, this week, and it is arguable that the GPU co-processors aimed at personal supers and massive clusters alike were the star of the show.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, CPU

Thu Nov 26, 2009

Channel Register

Big Blue murders Cell blade servers

IBM's QSZ2 Cell-based blade server received nary a mention at last week's SC09 supercomputing trade show in Oregon.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, CPU, Fishkill, NY

Channel Register

Sun doubles Open Storage high-end performance

Sun has pimped up its high-end Storage 7000 product with processor, cache and hard drive upgrades.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, CPU

WEBSPHERE Journal

Report Finds IBM Supercomputers Are Most Energy Efficient in the World

The list includes supercomputers from Saudi Arabia to Germany and the United States that are being used for a variety of applications such as astronomy, climate prediction and pharmaceutical research.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, IBM, CPU, Best of 2007

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Electronic Engineering Times Asia

Tesla GPUs enable low-cost parallel computing

Nvidia Corp. launches the Tesla 20-series of parallel processors for the high performance computing market.

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Related Topix: Science, Computer Science, CPU, Science / Technology, Cloud Computing, University of Tennessee, Computers

EurekAlert!

University of Minnesota researchers develop virtual streams to help restore real ones

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a unique new computer model called the Virtual StreamLab, designed to help restore real streams to a healthier state.

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Related Topix: University of Minnesota, Computers, Science / Technology

Newkerala.com

Technology designed to blast aliens in games now part of new computer cluster

Washington, November 25 : Reports indicate that the technology designed to blast aliens in computer games is part of a new GPU computer cluster that will process CSIRO research data thousands of times faster and more efficiently than a desktop PC.

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Related Topix: CPU, Science / Technology, Computers, PC, Science, Computer Science

Tue Nov 24, 2009

ComputerWorld

Meow! IBM cat brain simulation dissed as 'hoax' by rival scientist

IBM's claim that it has designed the first brain simulation to exceed the scale of a cat's cortex is being dismissed as "a hoax and a PR stunt" by a rival scientist.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Science, Computer Science, UC Merced, Merced, CA, CPU

AndhraNews

LSI High-Performance Storage System Receives Honors in 2009 HPCwire...

LSI Corporation has been recognized in the annual HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards, presented at the 2009 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis , held at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon.

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Related Topix: Semiconductors, Electronics, LSI Logic, Science, Computer Science

DesignLines

Al Gore: Supercomputers can sway global warming ways

PORTLAND, Ore. &#151 Supercomputers can do more to reverse the global warming trend, according to former vice president Al Gore who gave a keynote at the Supercomputer 2009 conference held here this week.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, US Politics, Al Gore, US News

Post-Bulletin

'Cloud computing' allows access to supercomputers

For decades, the world's supercomputers have been the tightly guarded property of universities and governments.

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Related Topix: Cloud Computing, Science / Technology, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Computers

Mon Nov 23, 2009

TechWeb.com

Wolfe's Den: Intel CTO Envisions On-Chip Data Centers

Justin Rattner talks about the explosion of multicore processing, bringing security to cloud computing, and processor-based networking Intel CTO Justin Rattner made his bones in the 1980s, pushing the supercomputing industry from unsustainably expensive, proprietary architectures toward affordable, off-the-shelf microprocessors.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, CPU, Cloud Computing, Science, Computer Science

TechWeb.com

IBM WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging Completes STAC-M2 Testing

IBM sets performance standard in independent low latency benchmark for financial markets.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, CPU

Freshnews

Chelsio Announces $17M Financing

Chelsio Communications Inc., the leading provider of 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters, ASICs, and storage solutions, today announced the completion of a private funding round, raising a total of $17 million.

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Related Topix: Startups, Chelsio Communications, Science / Technology, Science, Computer Science

The Register

Intel: 3D Web to save HPC

SC09 Intel CTO Justin Rattner has a stark warning for the HPC community: Come up with a killer application or the business will stagnate.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

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