New Supercomputer To Reel In Answers To Some Of Earth's Problems
2009-07-29 15:15:00 From ScienceDaily: Latest Science News: The newest supercomputer in town is almost 15 times faster than its predecessor and ready to take on problems in areas such as climate science, hydrogen storage and molecular chemistry. The $21.4 million Chinook supercomputer was built by HP,
Supercomputer's Model of Human Contact Simulates Swine Flu
2009-05-28 16:20:00 From IEEE Spectrum Online: An extravagantly detailed computer model of the U.S. population is taking a crack at understanding the H1N1 "swine flu" outbreak. The model, built by researchers at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, in Blacksburg, Va., is composed of re
IBM Readies Supercomputer to Face Off Against Jeopardy! Contestants
2009-04-30 16:20:00 From Scientific American: IBM this week announced plans to pit one of its supercomputers against human contestants on the game show Jeopardy! And the show's producers are game, with host Alex Trebek even filming a faux-Final Jeopardy! segment for a promotional video. IBM spokespers
AMD Announces New Supercomputer And We Have The Interview With AMD Wheel Ch
2009-01-14 20:49:00 AMD has announced plans for a new supercomputer, one aimed at the entertainment industry. It is specifically designed to tackle the huge problem of image rendering, a process that has bogged down the movie and video world for years. Decoding DNA, Genome Folding, and weather prediction is certainly CPU intensive, and can only be sensibly ...
Scientists Write Guide To Build Supercomputer From Sony Playstation 3
2008-12-18 16:45:00 First the Wii is souped-up & now this...hope it proves worthy! Link: http://www.physorg.com/news1487-49271.html UMass Dartmouth Physics Professor Gaurav Khanna and UMass Dartmouth Principal Investigator Chris Poulin have created a step-by-step guide to building a home-brewed supercomput
NCAR installs 76-teraflop supercomputer for critical research on climate ch
2008-08-17 21:21:00 Caption: Tom Bettge, Credit: Photo by Carlye Calvin, UCAR. Usage Restrictions: *News media reproduction to illustrate this story and nonprofit use permitted with proper attribution as provided above and acceptance of UCAR's terms of use. BOULDER--The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has taken delivery of a new IBM supercomputer that will advance research into severe weather and the future of Earth's climate. The supercomputer, known as a Power 575 Hydro-Cluster, is the first in a highly energy-efficient class of machines to be shipped anywhere in the world.Scientists at NCAR and across the country will use the new system to accelerate research into climate change, including future patterns of precipitation and drought around the world, changes to agriculture and growing seasons, and the complex influence of global warming on hurricanes. Researchers also will use it to improve weather forecasting models so society can better anticipate where and when dangerous storms...
New Military Supercomputer Breaks Performance Record
2008-06-12 21:17:00 Roadrunner supercomputer is first to break petaflop barrierA new supercomputer in the U.S. has broken a barrier that many thought wouldn?t be broken for years to come. A new supercomputer-- dubbed Roadrunner-- has broken the petaflop barrier.Roadrunner was designed by engineers and scientists at IBM and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Ultimately, Roadrunner will be placed into a classified environment where it will be used to simulate what effects aging has on the stockpile of nuclear weapons the U.S. has in its arsenal. The problem it will work on is modeling how aging nuclear weapons behave the first fraction of a second during an explosion. Before beginning its nuclear weapons research, Roadrunner will be used to model the effects of global warming.The Roadrunner supercomputer costs $133 million and is built using chips from both consumer electronics and more common server processors.Roadrunner has 12,960 chips that are an improved version of the Cell chip used in the PS3. Th...
Roadrunner Supercomputer - The Fastest $133 Million computer in the World!
2008-06-10 03:46:00 I’ve always been fond of supercomputers and I even did a college final project on supercomputers. (That’s 10 years ago..) Here’s Roadrunner Supercomputer, based out of Los Alamos National Laboratory, supposedly a lot faster than the now-runner-up BlueGene from Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in Livermore, California. Damn, I wish Google released how big their computers are, I ...
Technology: Fastest supercomputer in the world proves one in a ... - guardi
2008-06-10 01:14:00 The Money TimesTechnology: Fastest supercomputer in the world proves one in a ...guardian.co.uk, UK -;- 11 hours agoBuilt from microchips originally destined for games consoles, Roadrunner is the world's latest supercomputer. Yesterday it was officially crowned the ...Supercomputer smashes speed record to become world's fastest machine Daily MailDOE: Los Alamos lab will have world's fastest supercomputer KDBCall 496 news articles
Hybrid Supercomputer Now World?s Fastest
2008-06-09 21:04:00 The U.S. Department of Energy reports the world?s fastest computer, a hybrid supercomputer codenamed ?Roadrunner,? can compute 1,000 trillion operations per second. The machine was designed by IBM and uses Cell Broadband Engine chips, technology originally developed for video game platforms. “Roadrunner” was built for the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration and will ...
IBM's Road Runner Supercomputer Sets World-Record Speed - CRN
2008-06-09 20:37:00 Earthtimes (press release)IBM's Road Runner Supercomputer Sets World-Record SpeedCRN, NY - 1 hour agoSorry coyote, but you're still not wily enough to touch Roadrunner, IBM's supercomputer, billed as the fastest in the world operating at 1 petaflop or 1000 ...US Energy Dept says new computer world's fastest Reuters UKIBM: Poughkeepsie-built machine is world's fastest Poughkeepsie JournalGovernment Supercomputer Named World's Fastest AHNToTheCenter.com - Daily Mailall 309 news articles
IBM's Road Runner Supercomputer Sets World-Record Speed - CRN
2008-06-09 20:37:00 Canoe.caIBM's Road Runner Supercomputer Sets World-Record SpeedCRN, NY - 8 hours agoSorry coyote, but you're still not wily enough to touch Roadrunner, IBM's supercomputer, billed as the fastest in the world operating at 1 petaflop or 1000 ...US Energy Dept says new computer world's fastest Reuters UKScientists Develop World?s Fastest Supercomputer RedOrbitWorld?s fastest computer, Roadrunner, designed by Wyle E. IBM IT World Canada BlogsSci-Tech Today - Poughkeepsie Journalall 412 news articles
U.S. supercomputer sets speed record
2008-06-09 16:50:00 From Technology & Media - International Herald Tribune: A U.S. military supercomputer has reached a computing milestone by breaking the so-called petaflop barrier and keeping the country on top in supercomputing. The machine is more than twice as fast as the previous fastest sup
FOUR GEFORCE 9800 GX2 CARDS, TO BUILD A SUPERCOMPUTER
2008-05-30 00:43:00 This may not be the best supercomputer we've ever seen, but it has some interesting points to look at. Researchers from the University of Antwerp used four of NVIDIA's high-end GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics cards to build a computer capable of developing new computational methods for tomography. Powered by a 1,500W power source it runs on an AMD Phenom 9850 processor, has 8GB of RAM, and a 750GB hard drive.Dubbed FASTRA, the new system is capable of doing computations that took 1 hour before, in just a few seconds. Here is an overview:Source
IBM World Community Grid "Supercomputer" to Tackle Rice Crisis -
2008-05-15 18:57:00 IBM World Community Grid "Supercomputer" to Tackle Rice CrisisCNNMoney.com - 23 minutes agoWith the processing power of 167 teraflops, equivalent to the world's Top 3 supercomputer, IBM's World Community Grid will harness the unused and donated ...
Purdue set for supercomputer 'barn-raising'
2008-05-03 22:00:00 Purdue set for supercomputer 'barn-raising'200 employees will help build a machine that will be the size of a semi trailer and will be able to perform more than 60 trillion operations in one second. http:/-/www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9935-073-7...
The Best Evil Supercomputer In A Movie
2008-05-01 23:51:00 I am in the middle of a home-improvement crisis right now, and I am at the same time listening to "The Hampsterdance Song" (The club mix, not the radio edit. The radio edit would be lame. The club mix is both rocking and inspirational). Those two things, naturally, add up to my decision to determine which Evil Supercomputer was The Best.Don't bother trying to figure out how my mind works.Evil supercomputers are on my mind right now because I recently re-watched almost 30 minutes of Tron on DVD, a DVD I took out from the library because I remembered watching Tron when I was younger and wanted to see it again, but didn't want to pay to see it again. I only got through 20 minutes of it because of the various home-improvement crises, but 30 minutes was enough to remind me of the great evil supercomputer in that movie, and also to marvel at the way people used to think about computers.In Tron, you no doubt instantaneously recalled, the programs were represented by living people in clot...
The Best Evil Supercomputer In A Movie
2008-05-01 23:51:00 I am in the middle of a home-improvement crisis right now, and I am at the same time listening to "The Hampsterdance Song" (The club mix, not the radio edit. The radio edit would be lame. The club mix is both rocking and inspirational). Those two things, naturally, add up to my decision to determine which Evil Supercomputer was The Best.Don't bother trying to figure out how my mind works.Evil supercomputers are on my mind right now because I recently re-watched almost 30 minutes of Tron on DVD, a DVD I took out from the library because I remembered watching Tron when I was younger and wanted to see it again, but didn't want to pay to see it again. I only got through 30 minutes of it because of the various home-improvement crises, but 30 minutes was enough to remind me of the great evil supercomputer in that movie, and also to marvel at the way people used to think about computers.In Tron, you no doubt instantaneously recalled, the programs were represented by living people in clot...
The Most Powerful Supercomputer In The World
2008-04-18 22:14:00 Ranger is the worlds most powerful supercomputer and is developed by Sun Microsystems incorporating advance storage servers for powerful supercomputing
IBM?s New Supercomputer To Be Liquid Cooled!
2008-04-10 12:42:00 Hardcore Overclocker?s already know about liquid cooling since liquid cooling allows them to overclock their processor more than air cooling will allow them to and also liquid cooling cools their processor better thus increasing its life. Liquid Cooling is one of the most extreme and exotic cooling systems for Overclocker?s/Gamers. In the supercomputer segment companies like ...
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IBM Hydro-cluster supercomputer
2008-04-09 21:51:00 IBM Hydro-cluster supercomputer (09/Abr/2008) IBM está trabajando en nuevas formas de enfriar supercomputadores, utilizando agua tan cerca como sea posible de los chips para extraer de ellos el calor.
New Water-Cooled Supercomputer Will Use 40% Less Energy
2008-04-08 22:37:00 Today’s Chicago Tribune made a big fuss about a new water-cooled supercomputer at the University of Illinois. Yes, it will do massively more research, and yes, it will help researchers solve...
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Can?t resume Windows from hibernate on your 32-processor supercomputer? App
2008-04-08 15:02:00 It’s not uncommon to come across a patch for a software problem you’ve never heard of or thought was possible. In most cases they’re caused by an unconventional use-case or a bad combination of hardware/software configurations. Sometimes the symptoms are so exceptional it makes you ponder about who in the world would be affected by ...
U.K.'s fastest supercomputer unveiled [Digg]
2008-03-01 18:15:00 High-End Computing Terascale Resource--can handle 63 trillion calculations per second, which is the equivalent processing power of 12,000 desktop systems and four times faster than its predecessor. The amt. of calculations the system can handle is equivalent to every person on earth simultaneously carrying out 10,000 calculations per second.
Sony Playstation 3 (PS3) Is A Super Computer?
2008-02-28 12:40:00 Do you know what is Sony Playstation 3 (PS3)? Did you believe that there’s a supercomputer has been built from Sony Playstation 3? If you still doesn’t know anything about it yet, here’s the story. From the lab of University of Massachusetts, there’s ongoing a research projects of their group that involve supercomputing in Physics. This project ...
Supercomputer Center Comes to RPI Tech Park
2008-02-06 12:00:00 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has teamed up with IBM and New York State to form a $100 million partnership, creating the world's most powerful university-based supercomputing center. The Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI) is based in the Rensselaer Technology Pa
Pictures of a Really Really Really big Supercomputer!
2007-12-16 08:26:00 Wait, how do you walk through all that?!? Wow, I used to work as network technician long time ago when installing a CAT5 wires on a 5000 sq. ft office was hard. This is about 100 times harder looking… how do they even maintain the supercomputer? I wonder what happens if one of these ...
Iran Cobbles Together AMD-Based Supercomputer
2007-12-12 00:00:00 InformationWeek brings word that an Iranian university has apparently been able to put together a cluster of 216 Opteron server processors apparently in defiance of U.S. export controls, which the country will allegedly use for weather forecasting. The U.S. forbids ...
IBM Nanophotonics Technology May Lead To Supercomputers-On-A-Chip
2007-12-08 08:26:00 IBM has developed a new breakthrough technology called silicon nanophotonics which replaces the tiny wires between the processor cores with pulses of light for super quick and energy efficient data transfers.Traditionally the tiny wires used to communicate between the cores takes much more time and power as compared to te newly developed Nanophotonics which uses ...
IBM?s single chip supercomputer
2007-12-07 12:57:00 Source : Top Tech news Supercomputers that consist of thousands of individual processors connected by miles of copper wires might one day fit into a laptop. And instead of using enough power to light up hundreds of homes, future supercomputers on a chip would require only the energy of a light bulb. So says IBM. Big ...
IBM build ?Silicon nanophotonics? Supercomputer-on-a-chip
2007-12-07 09:48:00 Supercomputers may soon be the same size as a laptop if IBM brings to market research detailed on Thursday, in which pulses of light replace electricity to make data transfer between processor cores on a chip up to one-hundred times faster.The technology, called silicon nanophotonics, replaces some of the wires on a chip with pulses of light on tiny optical fibers for quicker and more power-efficient data transfers between cores on a chip, said Will Green, research scientist at IBM.The technology, which can transfers data up to a distance of a few centimeters, is about 100 times faster than wires and consumes one-tenth as much power, Green said. The lower power requirement should reduce operational costs for supercomputers, he said.''"The silicon nanophotonic effort is a high-bandwidth, low-power technology for cores to communicate," Green said.Full Article
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Nanophotonic Supercomputer by IBM
2007-12-07 00:18:00 A super computer that is the size of a laptop sounds like a very good idea and IBM may have the solution with their silicon nanophotonic technology. Apparently they won't use any wires in the future chipsets but light pulses instead, that will travel through optical fibers. Of course it is going to be much faster (light speed) with experts looking at 100x faster, and much more energy efficient, 10 times less.The main disadvantage of the wired chipsets on the market right now is related to overheating and the fact that the data signals only travel a few millimeters from one core to another while silicon photonics can reach many centimeters and a low power consumption. Though this sounds great, don't get your hopes too high, yet, because the project is not going to be ready any time soon. Will Green, research scientist at IBM said that they are seeing 10-12 years of research before going live with it.Source: Yahoo
IBM researchers build supercomputer-on-a-chip
2007-12-06 18:29:00 San Francisco - Supercomputers may soon be the same size as a laptop if IBM brings to market research detailed on Thursday, in which pulses of light replace electricity to make data transfer between processor cores on a chip up to one-hundred times faster. The technology, called silicon nanophotonics, replaces some of the wires on ...
AMD Spider Platform Is Gaming Supercomputer Or So They Say
2007-11-19 13:30:00 AMD has just announced their Spider platform, which they claim is the best PC gaming platform out there. Spider combines AMD Phenom quad-core processors, up to four ATI Radeon HD 3800 cards and the AMD 7-Series chipset, with CrossFireX, HyperTransport 3.0, AMD OverDrive, and AMD AutoXpress to provide massive acceleration for high definition 3D graphics. ...
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Tata arm CRL installs AsiaÂ’s fastest HP-based supercomputer
2007-11-17 00:00:00 CRL’s Eka is not a ‘supercomputer developed by the Tata group.’ It is basically built with Hewlett-Packard Co servers using Intel chips with 14,240 processor cores and works on Linux.
A gaming supercomputer - Sony PlayStation 3 60GB
2007-11-16 01:03:00 In the gaming world, being first to market has its advantages, but it also has some downsides. With its Xbox 360, Microsoft has staked itself a year lead over archrival Sony in the next-gen gaming... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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The Top 5 World Fastest Supercomputers!
2007-11-15 23:40:00 It seems that every month we hear motherboard and other hardware chip makers boasting how fast their products can process. Today, Crystal Coast Tech Blog is presenting you the world top 5 world fastest supercomputers starting from: The world’s fastest supercomputer is the BlueGene/L System, a joint development of IBM and the Department of Energy’s ...
[IT_Group:4350] Top 500 Supercomputers in the world - One is in INDIA .. !!
2007-11-15 05:57:00 Friends, Here goes the list of Top 500 Supercomputers in the world as of today. Being Indians, we must feel proud as one of them is in India. Regards, Ketan Vachhani **... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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India hosts world's fourth fastest supercomputer - Times of India
2007-11-14 05:22:00 Half Life SourceIndia hosts world's fourth fastest supercomputerTimes of India, India - 25 minutes agoWASHINGTON: India has surprisingly broken into the Top Ten in a much-fancied twice-yearly list of the fastest supercomputers in the world, marking a giant ...Tatas? supercomputer Eka adjudged world?s fourth fastest Hindu Business LineFourth fastest computer in the world HinduTata supercomputer named fastest in Asia, 4th in world Economic TimesEconomic Times - Business Standardall 63 news articles
India's Supercomputer Fastest in Asia
2007-11-14 05:13:00 India has broken into the Top 10 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world, marking a giant leap in its push towards becoming a global IT power2 Vote(s)
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India's Supercomputer Fastest in Asia
2007-11-14 04:51:00 India has broken into the Top 10 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world, marking a giant leap in its push towards becoming a global IT power. A cluster platform at Pune?s Computational Research Laboratories, a Tata subsidiary, has been ranked fourth in the widely anticipated Top 500 list released at an international conference on high performance computing in Reno, Nevada. The Indian supercomputer has been adjudged the fastest in Asia. It is the first time India has figured in the global Top 100, let alone Top 10. The list, usually dominated by the US, is also notable this time because it has five new entrants in the Top 10, with supercomputers in Germany and Sweden up there with the one in India. The No. 1 position has again been claimed by the BlueGene/L System, a joint development of IBM and the US department of energy?s National Nuclear Security Administration and installed at DOE?s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Although BlueGene/L has occu...
India Has 4th Fastest Supercomputer
2007-11-13 19:04:00 India's Tata group and Hewlett-Packard said onTuesday they had built the Asia-Pacific region's most powerful supercomputer - in a major boost to scientific research in India.The supercomputer has made it into a top ten of the world's fastest supercomputers. In fact, it made it to the 4th place in a list of top 500 supercomputers.Computer giant IBM continues to dominate the list - which is compiled twice a year. Its Blue Gene/L supercomputer - used to ensure the US nuclear weapons stockpile remains safe and reliable - comes out at number one.Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a wholly owned Tata unit, built the machine, named "Eka" ("the one" in Sanskrit), using HP's high-end "computer building blocks," the two companies said.Scientists and engineers would have the ability to perform 120 trillion "floating point operations" per second using the supercomputer, the most powerful in Asia including Japan and the world's fourth most powerful, they said.The speed of floating p...
IBM's liquid cooled System p 575 Power6 supercomputer
2007-11-13 16:12:00 At the SC07 supercomputing conference in Reno Nevada, IBM previewed the liquid cooled 32-core 4.7 GHz System p 575 Power6 supercomputer last night at1 Vote(s)
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Tata supercomputer named fastest in Asia, 4th in world - Economic Times
2007-11-13 10:54:00 Tata supercomputer named fastest in Asia, 4th in worldEconomic Times, India - 40 minutes agoThe supercomputer "EKA", which means number one in Sanskrit, was named Asia's fastest and the world's fourth fastest in the Top 500 Supercomputer list ...IBM BlueGene still the top supercomputer in the world TG Dailyall 98 news articles
Supercomputer Expert Joins Microsoft
2007-11-13 03:08:00 Supercomputer Expert Joins MicrosoftIn what will be his first job in the commercial sector, veteran supercomputer research Daniel Reed, former director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urba...
Handheld Supercomputers in a Decade?
2007-11-03 05:39:00 Actual PC Problems with Solutions One nanotechnology researcher said supercomputers small enough to fit into the palm of your hand are only 10 or 15 years away.If things continue to go the way they have been in the past few decades, then its 10 years, said Michael Zaiser, a professor and researcher at the University of Edinburgh School of Engineering and Electronics. The human brain is very good at working on microprocessor problems, so I think we are close — 10 years, maybe 15.Zaisers research into nanowires read more
The PS3 is a supercomputer
2007-11-02 20:15:00 It's not often that buying a games console can give you a valid reason for claiming you're doing your bit for humanity. But since the launch of the Playstation 3, its new owners can do just that! For the last seven years, researchers at Stanford University have been working on a research program whose goal is to understand the process of protein folding and how it may be analysed in relation to disease. Protein folding is the method in which proteins arranged themselves when carrying out their important functions, and its through a malfunction of this process that many serious disea... (read more) Author: Ian Ball
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A new SuperComputer from NEC
2007-10-30 03:11:00 During the past week NEC has announced the availability of a new system supercomupter able to compete with the giants of the sector represented by IBM and Cray. The new system, whose name is SX-9, will be officially shown next month at the iExpo2007 at Reno, Nevada. According to statements made by the new NEC supercomputer is capable of supporting a power calculation peak of 839 teraflop (839
Supercomputer SX-9
2007-10-28 15:40:00 The computer market hosts one of the fastest supercomputers, launched by NEC Corporation. The supercomputer is called “SX-9.” It calculates 893 teraflops (839 trillion point operations per second), vector performance peak exceeds 100 GFLOPS*2, shared memory is up to 1 TB, speed is 128GB/second.The SX-9 is less space and power consuming. These features increase the value of the new product. But the most distinguishable features of SX-9 are the features that might be used productively in fluid dynamics, environmental simulation, nanotechnology, and weather forecasting.NEC Corporation describes the features of the new product as follows:Enhanced groundbreaking performance from ultra high-speed CPUInheriting existing vector architecture, the new product improves on this with the addition of an arithmetic unit and an increased number of vector pipelines. This has resulted in the development of the world's fastest single-chip vector processor with a computing performance of 102.4 GFL...
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Handheld supercomputers only 10-15 years away
2007-10-27 17:24:00 Nanotechnology researcher Michael Zaiser says that with the progress the tech world is making, handheld supercomputer is less than two decades away"If things continue to go the way they have been in the past few decades, then it's 10 years," said Michael Zaiser, a professor and researcher at the University of Edinburgh School of Engineering and Electronics. "The human brain is very good at working on microprocessor problems, so I think we are close -- 10 years, maybe 15." Zaiser's research into nanowires should help move that timeline along. For the last five years, he has been studying how tiny wires -- 1,000 times thinner than a human hair -- behave when manipulated. He explained that each such miniscule wire tends to behave differently when put under the same amount of pressure. Therefore, it has been impossible to line them up close to each other in tiny microprocessors in a production atmosphere. more detail |
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