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ac3: Triumph in Teraflops - ac3 Breaks Australia's Teraflops Barrier

Owned by the government of New South Wales NSW, ac3 is creating a world-class, High-Performance Computing HPC center that will help promote economic and employment growth in Australia by providing computing resources and services to industry, commerce, government and academia. ac3 built an Intel architecture - based supercomputing cluster with...

Tags: Barrier, Teraflop, Australia, Intel Corp., Government, Performance Management, Vertical Industries, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies

Cell Broadband Engine, Teraflop Processors and Disruptive Technologies 2008-2012

The Aerospace and Defense (A&D) industry is facing a unique opportunity to achieve breakthrough power in signal and data processing, security, simulation, modeling and surveillance with multi-core processors. To meet that demand, the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) architecture, a revolutionary new heterogeneous, multi-core chip architecture, promises new levels of efficiency...

Tags: Multi-core Processor, Teraflop, Broadband, Multi-core, Aerospace, Cell, Processors, Aerospace & Defense, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Manufacturing

White papers 2007-08-01

Photos: Intel teraflop chip on board

Intel last week demonstrated an 80-core chip capable of producing 1 trillion floating-point operations per second, known as a teraflop.

Tags: board, chip, Intel Corp., photograph, teraflop

Image galleries 2007-02-11

Images: 35 years of Intel chip design

Here is a look at how Intel chips have evolved--from the company's very first microprocessor, the 4004, through the teraflop-ready 80-core prototype of tomorrow.

Tags: chip, Intel Chip, Intel Corp., microprocessor, teraflop

Image galleries 2006-11-13

Two records in one day for SGI supercomputer

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Tags: Processors, Silicon Graphics Inc., teraflop, Columbia, supercomputer

Technical articles 2004-10-27

Apple sells supercomputer sequel

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Tags: Processors, Operating systems, Colsa, Mach 5, Apple Inc., teraflop, Mike Whitlock, Anthony DiRienzo, processor, supercomputer

Technical articles 2004-06-22

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Intel shows off 80-core processor

Link to the photo galleryIntel teraflop chip on boardhttp://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-1035_11-54405.htmlStay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today!http://nl.com.com/MiniFormHandler?brand=techrepublic&list_id=e019bah, 80 cores for a teraflop?Check the discussion I started Friday, Quantum Computing, is it just a Pipe Dream.16 core cpu,...

Tags: Sonja Thompson, teraflop chip, hardware, intel, news, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-02-12

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

(Photos: Intel teraflop chip on board)

WOWYes but will I be able to play Zork on it???3Ghz????? - What??Can someone explain why 3Ghz is supposed to be impressive?? Dont most machines do that now anyways???Reply to 3GHzThink of it this way for the 3GHz processor. Normally you just have a dual core or single core processor...

Tags: board, chip, Intel Corp., off-topic, photograph, processor, ron_conaway@...

Discussion threads 2007-02-16

Sun acquires Lustre File System

Sun Microsystems has inked an agreement to acquire the open-source Lustre File System from software provide Cluster File Systems, among other assets. The Lustre File System, used for large-scale cluster computing, is used to power clusters with tens of thousands of nodes and petabytes of data. ...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Linux, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Virtualization, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Hardware, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-09-14

SGI to upgrade high-end Linux servers next week

SGI to upgrade high-end Linux serversSilicon Graphics Inc. SGI plans to announce a new Linux computer on Monday, which the company is calling the BX2 because it has twice the bandwidth to transfer data within the system. The next generation upgrade to the Altix 3000 family uses Intel's newest Itanium...

Tags: high-end Linux server, Linux, Linux server, Newsletter Editor, server, Silicon Graphics Inc.

Discussion threads 2004-10-27

ATI shows off dual processor graphic card

AMD has introduced a high-end graphics card that combines two processor chips into a single card. This latest graphics card has the processing power to top a teraflop, or the equivalent of a trillion mathematical calculations per second. Excerpt from PC World: The ATI Radeon 3870...

Tags: Card, Processor, Video Card, Dual Processor, ATI Technologies Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Video Cards, Hardware, Components, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2008-01-28

IBM regains supercomputer bragging rights

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Tags: IBM Corp., Top500 List, supercomputer

Technical articles 2004-06-21