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Photos: Supercomputing at Oak Ridge

Just outside Knoxsville, Tenn., lies one of the world's great supercomputer labs. CNET News' Daniel Terdiman takes a tour. by CNET News.com

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Supercomputer, Photograph, CNET News, CNET News.com, news, supercomputing

Image galleries 2008-07-09

Top 10 IT headlines for June 10: HP shows off new PCs, iPhone 2 details, PS3 chip now powers supercomputer

Top IT headlines for Tuesday, June 10, 2008: HP unveils massive slate of new PCs, Apple provides details on iPhone 2.0 at WWDC, chip from PS3 now powers world's fastest computer, Kaiser deals with Microsoft HealthVault, Skype can't comply with wiretapping, and more. by Jason Hiner

Tags: Apple iPhone, Hewlett-Packard Co., CNET Networks Inc., PC, Supercomputer, Sony PlayStation 3, Information Technology, Chip, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2008-06-10

IBM photonics technology could result in supercomputers on a single chip

IBM has come out with technology that could one day find its way into processors, allowing the processors to signal via pulses of light. This could herald the availability of faster and cooler processors. Due to the fact that wires radiate heat, many companies have been...

Tags: Device, Supercomputer, Pulse, IBM Corp., Chip, Modulator, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-12-06

NEC claims it built the world's fastest vector supercomputer

NEC claims to have developed that fastest vector supercomputer in the world. The SX-9 is capable of calculating 839 teraflops, as against IBM Blue Gene/L's 280.6 Teraflops performance. Here's a quote from Computerworld: NEC also noted that the SX-9 features what it calls the world's first...

Tags: Supercomputer, NEC Corp., Supercomputing, SX-9, Arun Radhakrishnan

Blog posts 2007-10-28

Spammers target antispam sites

It's the battle of Good vs. Evil. Antispam community sites are being targeted with Denial of Service attacks by what is believed to be the same group that is behind the storm worm bot. A quote from the article at Ars Technica:...

Tags: Denial Of Service, Supercomputer, Anti-spam, Spammer, Attack, Antispam Site, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Arun Radhakrishnan

Blog posts 2007-09-12

Supercomputer architectures set to scale new heights

At the International Supercomputing Conference held in Dresden, Germany, IBM announced its next-generation Blue Gene/P, which can scale more than 1 petaflop computing capacity, and Sun Microsystems unveiled plans to make it to the top list with its "Constellation" architecture. Also, Microsoft seeks to garner more market share in the supercomputing...

Tags: Supercomputer, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Chip, Supercomputing, Blue Gene/P, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Arun Radhakrishnan

Blog posts 2007-07-01

Homemade supercomputer

I have two computers. One is an HP pavilion laptop with an AMD 2 ghz single core processor. The other is a Dell desktop with a pentium 4 2.8 ghz processor. Both have windows xp. I also have a crossover cable.I was wondering if I could use...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Processors, Operating systems, rhuffman7162@..., processor, supercomputer

Discussion threads 2007-03-19

(Photos: Germany's Leibniz supercomputer)

new photosi m computer engineering student.

Tags: neo_anderson_sara@..., networking, photograph, scorpio, software, supercomputer, windows

Discussion threads 2007-01-26

Photos: Germany's Leibniz supercomputer

The Leibniz Rechenzentrum supercomputer was built with public funds, no expense spared. In 2007, an upgrade will double its performance.

Tags: Germany, performance, photograph, supercomputer

Image galleries 2007-01-23

Geek Trivia: Deeper than deep

What is the origin of the Deep Thought name for the early chess supercomputer? Editor's note: The Trivia Geek is on extended leave, but he did get off his slacker butt long enough to pull this Classic Geek, which originally ran on May 10, 2005, from the archives. ...

Tags: Deep Blue, Jay Garmon, PRODUCTIVITY, computer, chess, Geek Trivia Newsletter, Supercomputer, Editor, Deep Thought

Technical articles 2007-01-09

AMD gains, Intel fights back on supercomputer list

Link to the SC06 supercomputing showhttp://sc06.supercomputing.org/

Tags: sc06 supercomputing show, news, networking, Sonja Thompson, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., supercomputer

Discussion threads 2006-11-14

Cray to introduce new Opteron supercomputer

when where and how much?hi ThereMr.StephenThanks for This information, This is greati have a GREAT IDEA and really GOOD USE for This NextGen supercomputer(is it going To be 'end-user cost' friendly?)i do 3d cg architectural visua

Tags: rendering, rendering farm, 3d, hardware, software, Thread, This IS, vizwhiz@..., Cray Inc., AMD Opteron, supercomputer

Discussion threads 2006-11-13

IBM Supercomputer

You uncerted are a right lot of lhhhooosssssers. Just think I am sitting with all MY nice certs while you scrabble about for the scraps. Scrap on...You are aschool kid in DC, right?(timing of Post, hmmmm)

Tags: ibm, IBM Corp., kiltie., supercomputer

Discussion threads 2006-10-06

Microsoft wraps up code for 'supercomputer' Windows

Would you pay moneyto turn your Cray into a 486? Or to turn ASCI White into Slow White? Microsoft seems to think so.Coming soon to a cluster near you: viruses that propagate faster than you ever thought possible! If you thought botnets were bad, just wait until you see a...

Tags: nighthawk808, supercomputers, programming, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, supercomputer

Discussion threads 2006-07-05

Would you buy a supercomputer OS from Microsoft?

Microsoft has hired away the chief scientist at Cray Supercomputer:http://news.com.com/2100-1010_3-5972043.htmlit's all part of their initiative to create a version of Windows for supercomputer clusters:http://techrepublic.com.com/2100-3513_11-5951855.htmlProgramming Windows is complicated enough, is the world really ready for a clustered supercomputer version of Windows? I wonder what that blue screen is gonna be...

Tags: cray, Microsoft Corp., operating system, RexWorld, supercomputer, windows

Discussion threads 2005-11-28

Deal brings optical connections to Sun supercomputer

Sun Microsystems is looking to optical communications to carry out a radical supercomputer redesign. Sun will use technology from a company called Luxtera to connect chips directly via optical links. Luxtera's longer-distance optical connections, when combined with proximity communication technology, could possibly be used to build a computer with no...

Tags: chip, computer, hardware, optical connection, optical connections, proximity communication, Sonja Thompson, sun, Sun Microsystems Inc., supercomputer

Discussion threads 2005-11-14

The World's Fastest Computer but..is the human brain more intelligent????

The World's Fastest Computer but..is the human brain more intelligent????can it beat Gary Kasparov in Chess?? ( possibly the greatest chess player of all time! ) or even conquer Human's in other classic games like "Go"??Gary Kasparov proved how intelligent the human mind is by conquering Deep Blue and matching...

Tags: ASC Purple, Black Panther, Blue Gene/L, computer, Don Johnston, hardware, human vs computer, IBM Corp., is the brain more intelligent?, supercomputer, supercomputer battle

Discussion threads 2005-06-03

Windows for supercomputers likely out by fall

Windows for supercomputers likely out by fallarticle rootWindows for supercomputers likely out by fallMicrosoft hopes to have a beta version of its first cluster version of Windows by this summer. The company plans to have the final version of Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition ready by the SC2005 supercomputing...

Tags: hardware, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Newsletter Editor, supercomputer, Unix

Discussion threads 2005-03-04

IBM to ship supercomputer system this month

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Tags: Processors, Servers, supercomputer, IBM POWER5, IBM Corp., server, memory, p5-575

Technical articles 2005-02-11

IBM supercomputing goes retro

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Tags: Processors, IBM supercomputing, supercomputing, IBM Corp., processor, Viva, IBM POWER5, Cray Inc., supercomputer

Technical articles 2004-10-26