High Performance Computing News

The last we heard, IBM was hard at work on its Power7 processor . Now the company's announcing that the thirty-two core chip -- and copious amounts of eDRAM -- are at the heart of its newest supercomputing project.

At Management World Americas 2009, Amdocs , the leading provider of customer experience systems, today unveiled the breakthrough results of a benchmark that tested the Amdocs Convergent Charging product on cost-effective, IBM Power blade servers.

Stunning growth in the performance of graphics processors along with stiffer competition is prompting developers of the technology to look beyond the traditional drive for photo realism in search of broader applications in parallel computing.

Nvidia's stock surged $1.88, or 13.18%, to $16.14, reversing the modest dip in tech shares that saw the Nasdaq fall 0.05%. AMD's shares were also on the rise as investors digested the news from rival Intel.

The race is on to develop a new generation of far more powerful supercomputers that could help solve some of the world's most vexing problems.

Now an executive at Microsoft, the project's founder said the real science behind the project is being overlooked The school superintendent investigating a former employee who ran the SETI@home program on school computers doesn't understand how the technology works or that the project is well-respected, experts in the technology field say.

Over the past few weeks, both Intel and AMD have discussed their roadmaps for processors for the coming year.

Intel's Larrabee will launch eventually, but not as a GPU. The project has suffered a final delay that proved fatal to its graphics ambitions, so Intel will put the hardware out as a development platform for graphics and high-performance computing But Intel's plans to make a GPU aren't deal; they've just been reset, with more news to come next ...

IDC: Worst May Be Over in Server Sales [December 3, 2009] Credit AMD and Intel's new processors for a turnaround in the market's fortunes, IDC says.

PORTLAND, Ore.-IBM claims to have succeeded in creating a supercomputer simulation of the human brain capable of sensation, perception, action, interaction and cognition.

Taking inspiration from genetic screening techniques, researchers from Harvard and MIT have demonstrated a way to build better artificial visual systems with the help of low-cost, high-performance gaming hardware.

Cloud computing is an infrastructure paradigm that moves computation to the Web in the form of a Web-based service.

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As part of a company-wide goal of reaching sustained exascale performance by the end of the next decade, global supercomputer leader Cray Inc.

Acer has shown off its SMB and HPC entry tickets at a Milan show today. The company has been perceived as a PC and mobile-centric vendor because its offerings haven't included beefy servers or storage suited to mainstream small and medium business or, in any way at all, the high-performance computing market.

ANI ANI ANI Worlds 5 fastest computers The latest ranking of the Top500 project has made a list of the worlds fastest computers.

DataDirect, a shipper of very high-speed block-access storage to the high performance computing and media worlds, is now offering native file access.

Sun Microsystems announced new products and technologies that extend its HPC leadership, maximize application performance and throughput, and provide superior building blocks for HPC systems.

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

Monday, November 23rd, 2009 by the oracle So much is changing these days in computers.