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  • Nvidia unveils Fermi GPU for supercomputers

    Nvidia showed off a new GPU architecture on Wednesday that it hopes will allow it to move beyond gaming to play a greater role in the supercomputing market.The new Fermi architecture should provide more realistic graphics for gamers, but it also…
    01 October 2009
    Tags: Graphics • Role • Parallel • Nvidia • Programming • Gaming

  • University lab set to build world's fastest network

    Californian research facility, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is looking to build the world's fastest computer network.The lab, which has just scored a $62(£38) million grant, to develop the network, will use the Energy Sciences…
    12 August 2009
    Tags: Archive • Engineers • Michael • Facility • Centers • Lab

  • Boffins claim quantum computing leap

    The best attempts previously have run a current past the electrons via small electrical wires, but that has brought in a lot of quantum noise, removing a key advantage of the material, Morley said.The researchers hope their work will allow them to…
    17 November 2008
    Tags: Paper • Tasks • Published • Matter • States • Noise

  • IBM and Los Alamos smash petaflop barrier

    IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory have built the world's first petaflop machine, a supercomputer named Roadrunner designed to ensure the safety and reliability of the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile, IBM has announced.
    10 June 2008
    Tags: Safety • Cell • Blade • Engines • Science • Opteron

  • IBM to switch on world's fastest supercomputer

    Morrison noted that the lab's contract calls for the new Roadrunner to reach the petaflop performance level.Grice said the new machine would need a single week to run a calculation that the fastest supercomputer 10 years ago would have needed 20…
    13 May 2008
    Tags: High Performance • Cell • Blades • Lab • Tackle • Supercomputer

  • New IBM super-servers get water cooling

    It is doubling the rewards for HP users, hoping to win them over as HP prepares to phase out its PA RISC processors in favour of Intel's Itanium.The Power 575 supercomputer uses a new Hydro-Cluster design developed at IBM's research lab in Zurich.
    08 April 2008
    Tags: Cores • Handy • Air • Datacentres • Cooling • Unix

Latest Features

  • The case for solid-state drives in the data centre

    The lab's new environmental molecular sciences facility contains a new supercomputer with a theoretical peak floating point performance of 163 teraflops. The case for solid-state drives in the data centre John Brandon, Computerworld…
    04 December 2007
    Tags: Peak • Solid State • Suited • Pacific • Latency • Debate

  • Welcome to the world's largest supercomputing grid

    It has grown by adding other supercomputer centres around the country, and it just completed a second user conference held at the University of Wisconsin earlier this month.Part of the TeraGrid is a simple user interface for the world's largest…
    27 June 2007
    Tags: Institutions • Ebay • Science • Usa • Laboratory • Industrial

  • Supercomputer architectures battle for hearts and minds of users

    These compilers, which Silverman says will be in production by 2009, will be able to schedule vector and scalar work for the hybrid supercomputer. Supercomputer architectures battle for hearts and minds of users Steve Ulfelder, Computerworld…
    29 March 2006
    Tags: Flow • Productivity • Affect • Parallel • Cluster • Clusters

  • Deciding the future of Ethernet

    And our whole upgrade plan is based on scaling by factors of 10, so it would just be a natural progression to go to 100Gig Ethernet.LBNL uses several 10Gig links in its data centres to aggregate switch connections and links to supercomputer…
    15 February 2006
    Tags: Chassis • Ieee • Gear • Cluster • Force • Links
 

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