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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
Photos: SC07 supercomputing
IBM, Intel Sun Microsystems, and Super Micro have their wares on display at the SC07 supercomputing conference. by George Ou
Tags: Photograph, Supercomputing, George Ou, tech action, SC07 supercomputing Intel IBM, TechRepublic Inc.
Image galleries 2007-11-13
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
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
Nvidia brings supercomputing to desktops
Set to ship in August, Nvidia's GPU Processor and Server packages are bringing supercomputing power to the desktop and datacenters. The scalable systems are ideal for research and analysis projects, especially in the biosciences and physical/geophysical domains. The Tesla family of products includes:...
Tags: Desktop, NVidia Corp., High-performance, Supercomputing, GPU, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-06-21
"What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, say it again!"
One of the fastest ways to get a Geek of any sort, or almost anyone, really, to look up is something that has become near ubiquitous in our modern environment.  It has nothing to do with the OTHER ubiquitous things (you know what I'm talking about).  It's "Money for Nothing". ...
Tags: Magnet, Bottle, Supercomputing, Food & Beverage, Team Management, Manufacturing, Management, Bill Ward
Blog posts 2007-01-12
Gates touts Microsoft's supercomputing move
there goes security.I sure hope they fix their security issues first or that's the start of headaches for the industry, if they go with Microsoft.Loss of securityJust perhaps they might build up an OS that does not rely on backwards compatiblity? E.G their Data Server OS which apparantly is...
Tags: Gates Touts Microsoft, hectorjleslie@..., Microsoft Corp., operating system, programming, security, security and cluster servers, supercomputing
Discussion threads 2005-11-21
New clusters emerge at supercomputing show
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Tags: Processors, Linux, Servers, supercomputing, Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Itanium, server, Intel Xeon, Dell Computer Corp., processor
Technical articles 2004-11-08
IBM supercomputing goes retro
Never is a Long Time...Perhaps "soon to Famous" Last Words, from Cray engineer: Steve Scott, an X1 chief architect. "Trying to hook multiple scalar processors into a vector processor is never going to be as effective as a real vector processor."This remark may sound like Bill Gates' remark in the...
Tags: Dilbert-Tom, IBM Corp., IBM supercomputing, processor, retro, supercomputing
Discussion threads 2004-10-26
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
Sun begins pay-as-you-go supercomputing
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Tags: Sun Solaris, Pricing, Marketing research, UNIX, Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, supercomputing
Technical articles 2004-09-21
Army supercomputing drafts Intel, AMD
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Tags: Network technology, Processors, Semiconductors, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, chip, AMD Opteron, 64-bit, Intel Corp., Nocona, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., supercomputing
Technical articles 2004-08-03
Gravity Tree 1.1 (Mobile)
This program visualizes a tree based gravity solver. Several hundred particles in a box with periodic boundary conditions are simulated and displayed in real time on your iPhone. Exactly the same simulation also runs on supercomputing facilities. It can be used to model the formation of planetesimals. Planetesimals are the...
Tags: Mobile, Particle, Tree, Supercomputing, Hanno Rein, Planetesimals, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
Software downloads 2009-12-10
Malaga University's New Supercomputing Center of HP Products Perfectly Syncs With Diverse Users
More than 40,000 students per year, including approximately 6,000 foreign students, attend Malaga University Universidad de Malaga of Andalusia in the South of Spain. Malaga University wanted to provide reliable, high-quality computing services for scientific researchers, various Malaga University departments, and outside educational facilities. The university equipped the supercomputing center...
Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Supercomputing, Servers, Hardware
Case studies 2009-06-01
Supercomputing Firm Offers World-Class Resources With Operating System Flexibility
R Systems provides flexible High-Performance Computing HPC resources for academic researchers and commercial organizations. The company offers traditional Linux clusters as well as clusters that run on the Windows HPC Server 2008 operating system. By making Windows HPC Server available, R Systems increases productivity for its customers by using the...
Tags: Operating System, Supercomputing, R Systems, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Linux, Open Source, Software
Case studies 2009-07-01
Understanding Supercomputing by 2002 by Scientific American, Inc., and Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc. 1.03 (Mobile)
Understanding Supercomputing2002 by Scientific American, Inc., and Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc.Grand Central PublishingDecember 2 2002In this book you'll discover what constitutes a 'supercomputer', how the supercomputers of today function, how you can make your own computer into a super machine - through networking - and what tomorrow holds in...
Tags: Mobile, Supercomputer, Scientific American Inc., Audio Book, Computer, Supercomputing, Iceberg Reader, Productivity
Software downloads 2009-09-23
Supercomputing Improves Research and Raises University's Profile
Glasgow Caledonian University has provided high performance computing HPC to researchers for more than 15 years. During this time, interest in computer simulation has expanded into disciplines that did not previously use HPC. To make these services more accessible and easier for everyone to use, the university hired HPC specialist...
Tags: High-performance Computing, Supercomputing, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cloud Computing
Case studies 2009-08-01
Cluster Resources and IBM: A Super Combination for Supercomputing
With more than 10 years of industry experience and more than 2,500 clients worldwide, Cluster Resources is in the business of enabling organizations to understand, control, and fully optimize their computing resources with the workload and resource management software products and services they provide for cluster, grid and utility-based computing...
Tags: IBM Corp., Supercomputing, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software
Case studies
Supercomputers & Storage: Strategies for Optimized Supercomputing Storage Systems
Supercomputing architectures require different approaches to storage selection, configuration and tuning to meet the stringent performance, scalability, availability, and manageability requirements of supercomputing applications, users, workloads and data sets. Well-tuned storage has an integral impact on how well supercomputers perform. Within the storage configurations, critical elements including storage hardware, the...
Tags: Strategy, Supercomputing, LNXI, Storage, Hardware
White papers 2006-04-09
The Need for Acceleration Technologies to Achieve Cost-Effective Supercomputing Performance for Advanced Applications
Supercomputing has become an essential tool for many users, including those working in the scientific, engineering, biomedical, and financial disciplines. Although processing capabilities continue to advance, in many cases demand is increasing at an even faster rate. Simulation and analysis problems - once intractable due to computational limitations - have...
Tags: Supercomputing, Supercomputing Technology
White papers 2007-03-16


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