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China announced its fastest supercomputer yet on Thursday in the country's latest show of its goal to become a world leader in technology.

MASSIVE DEVICE: China's fastest super computer Tianhe on the NUDT campus in Changsha, Hunan Province.

For years scientists have struggled with the difficult physics of inertial confinement fusion.

Asia Pacific News.Net Friday 30th October, 2009 New Delhi, October 30 : China has unveiled its fastest supercomputer, which at its peak speed can do more than one quadrillion calculations per second, known as a petaflop.

Intel are readying a new standard for so-called " microservers ", based on the company's prototype targeted at low-traffic websites.

Making nanodevices work will require a deep understanding of how these and other nanostructures can be engineered and fabricated as well as their resultant strengths and weaknesses.

Most of us are probably more familiar with Asus as the company that started the netbook revolution with its line of Eee netbooks.

China has unveiled the fastest supercomputer in Changsha, which is able to process one quadrillion caculations per second theoretically.

Processor manufacturer Tilera has announced the world's first 100 core processor, with a design it hopes will change the field of high performance computing.

Physicist Tanmoy Bhattacharya and HIV researcher Bette Korber have used samples taken by CHAVI across the globe -- from both chronic and acute HIV patients -- and created an evolutionary genetic family tree, known as a phylogenetic tree, to look for similarities in the acute versus chronic sequences that may identify areas where vaccines would be ...

Taiwanese motherboard and PC maker Asustek is apparently getting ready to jump into the personal supercomputer market with a glorified deskside supercomputer that it has developed in conjunction with graphics chip maker Nvidia and the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.

The company that introduced the world to the netbook with their EEE is now introducing a system at the other end of the performance spectrum.

Understanding dark energy is the number one issue in explaining the universe, according to Salman Habib, of the Laboratory's Nuclear and Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology group.

The world's fastest supercomputer, Roadrunner, at Los Alamos National Laboratory has completed its initial "shakedown" phase doing accelerated petascale computer modeling and simulations of a variety of unclassified, fundamental science projects.

Feature Feature InfoWorld Home / Hardware / News / Asustek teams with Nvidia on 1.1 teraflop... October 26, 2009 Asustek teams with Nvidia on 1.1 teraflop supercomputer The ESC 1000 is the size of a large desktop computer and uses 960 Nvidia GPU cores By Dan Nystedt IDG News Service Asustek Computer unveiled its first supercomputer on Monday, the ...

Tilera isn't a name you see on our pages too often , because their products almost have nothing to do with what we normally deal with, such as desktop CPUs... or products you'd have in your machine at home.

Windows 7 gives developers this freedom through Microsoft's new DirectCompute application programming interface , which is being introduced as part of the Microsoft DirectX 11 API.

A new supercomputing center in Wheeling focused on developing smart sensor technologies should be operational in a matter of weeks.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is expecting a shipment of computing hardware for the pursuit of research in cloud computing next month, after receiving $16 million in stimulus funding in August.

The Georgia Institute of Technology today announced its receipt of a five-year, $12 million Track 2 award from the National Science Foundation's Office of Cyberinfrastructure to lead a partnership of academic, industry and government experts in the development and deployment of an innovative and experimental high-performance computing system.

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For a while now, IBM has had multiple and competing tools for managing AIX and Linux clusters for its supercomputer customers and yet another set of tools that were used for other HPC setups with a slightly more commercial bent to them.

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Back in June, InfiniBand and now 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch maker Voltaire announced its first 10 GE switch, the Vantage 8500.

This is a top-down illustration of a black hole and its surrounding disk. NASA [ View Larger Image ] October 20, 2009 Scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology have won several grants to extend their own supercomputer and make use of two of the fastest supercomputers in the world in their quest to "shine light" on black holes.

High-performance computing solutions have used InfiniBand networks to meet the needs of the most demanding sets of applications and grand challenges.

LynuxWorks, Inc., a world leader in embedded software, today announced the availability of its board support package for two additional motherboards from Applied Micro Circuits Corp.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, October 19, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Market Research Media Ltd announces a new market report Worldwide Defense High Performance Computing Market Forecast 2010-2015 . If one were to choose an index that best represents a national military capacity, the high performance computing power of a nation would win as most comprehensive ...

Faithful rounding means the computed result either is one of the immediate floating-point neighbors of the exact result or is equal to the exact sum if this is a floating-point number.

FREMONT, Calif. - SGI announced that it will showcase its leading SGI servers, storage, data center and HPC solutions at the upcoming GEOINT 2009 Symposium from October 19 - 21 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas.

Dell's new rack-mount PowerEdge R410 server can take two of Intel's powerful quad-core Xeon 5500 processors, Like the R610 and R710 models before it, but there the resemblance ends.

University of Utah researchers and programmers are creating an iPhone application that will let users edit massive image files containing hundreds of gigabytes of data.

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." -- Thomas Edison E very once in awhile, I see an article in which the author seems surprised that Apple sells anything at all to the federal government.

Cloud computing is gaining traction in the commercial world, but can such an approach also meet the computing and data storage demands of the nation's scientific community? A new program funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the U.S. Department of Energy will examine cloud computing as a cost-effective and energy-efficient ...

At the 11th International Semiconductor 2009 trade show here, Hynix Semiconductor Inc.

Can software synthesize what we know about human biology into one clear picture? Stephen Friend thinks so.

It's Oracle OpenWorld, and everybody wants to be Larry Ellison's frienemy. That's only fitting considering that Oracle's chief executive officer and co-founder is certainly the IT industry's poster boy for frienemism.

PLINQ provide developers an easy way to harness multi-core capabilities of hardware including the traditional multi-processor computers and the new gen multi-core processors Multi-core processorsadvanced a lot and are being used in mobile phones and PDAs today.

Cluster Computers Speed EM Simulation Cluster computers can greatly reduce the processing time of an electromagnetic simulation by combining the processing power of multiple CPUs in a single computing platform.

Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Monday, October 05, 2009 -- Digital Waves, a leading Indian IT Solutions Company, based out of Bangalore, and T-Platforms, the Russian Supercomputer Company, have today signed to 'jointly offer High-Performance Computational Clustering Solutions to the Indian Market'. The partnership will bring & offer one of the ...

The Cyprus Institute and the University of Illinois have signed a research and educational collaboration agreement for the development of the Computation-based Science and Technology Research Center of the Cyprus Institute.

Six-figure salaries will be offered to some prospective employees at a new supercomputing center designed to develop "smart sensor" military technology.

Foxconn Said To Be Tapped To Make Apple Tablet PC, Shipments Expected To Begin In 1Q10 Re-Imagining The Mac G4 Cube For The Intel Era Mac, Windows Marketing Doesn't Match Reality in the Home Sauce for the Goose Apple's Mighty Mouse Never Lived Up To Its Name.

This announcement came at its Information Infrastructure Analyst Summit in Boston.

NVIDIA was at the forefront of the push to move high-performance computing from CPUs to GPUs in scientific and other areas of research.

Dassault Systemes , a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management solutions, announced that its Customer Conference in Orlando, Florida will open today with several hundred executives expected to attend.

IBM is going to become a cloud storage provider with an XIV-based Smart Business Storage Cloud and a private cloud Information Archive, unifying disk and tape.

Hewlett-Packard Co may get acquisitive again despite its recent absence from the technology sector's M&A scene, analysts said, and Brocade Communications Systems Inc may a prime target.

At the BioIT World Europe Conference, Illumina, Inc. announced the launch of IlluminaCompute, a fully integrated computing solution for its Genome Analyzer sequencing platform.

U.S. network equipment maker Brocade Communications Systems Inc has put itself up for sale, the Wall Street Journal said on Monday, triggering a 14 percent jump in the company's shares.

Bright Computing, a specialist in cluster management software and services for high-performance computing , was launched today to offer a fundamentally new approach to the technical challenges posed by HPC cluster management.

The End of Hardware as You Know It All tech trend lines point to the total elimination of funky contraptions that use gears, wheels, spokes and other industrial-revolution technologies.

Do groups of supercomputers have the ability to evolve? Having trouble discovering extraterrestrial life? Then you might consider evolving your own.

Stephen Dukker got his first job in computers at the age of 16, as a technical support representative for a company that sold computing services.

Oak Ridge National Laboratories may not be the first customer that nVidia will have for its new "Fermi" graphics processor, which was announced yesterday, but it will very likely be one of the largest customers.

Fujitsu and Toshiba announced on Thursday that they have completed the transfer of Fujitsu's hard-drive business to Toshiba.

We reported on the introduction of Nvidia's Fermi architecture earlier . But now a real chip expert, David Kanter, has taken a real in depth view of what Nvidia's proposing.

Is nVidia's New 'Fermi' a Supercomputer GPU? The graphics company built on gaming says it's ready to take on supercomputing, medical imaging and physics simulation.