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- IBM gives glimpse of Blue Gene performance
- IBM gives glimpse of Blue Gene performance360 trillion calculations/sec = 360 GIGAflops?If I recall, 1 trillion anything is a TERA-something, meaning that 360 trillion calculations/sec = 360 TERAflops, not gigaflops.RE: 360 trillion calculations/sec = 360 GIGAflops?Personally speaking they make it sound simpler by doing the following:1 MHz = 1 MegaHeartz1...
- Tags: hertz, GigaFLOPS, teraflop, Blue Gene performance, Blue Gene, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2003-11-14
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- KAUST to house fastest supercomputer in Middle East
- Thanks to one of my tipsters, I was informed the other day that KAUST, the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, have teamed up with IBM to build the fastest and most powerful supercomputer in the Middle East. KAUST is one of the most modern, dedicated...
- Tags: Supercomputer, University, Middle East, Supercomputing, KAUST, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- High Performance File I/O for the Blue Gene/L Supercomputer
- Parallel I/O plays a crucial role for most data-intensive applications running on massively parallel systems like Blue Gene/L that provides the promise of delivering enormous computational capability. This paper demonstrates the impact of the high performance I/O solution for Blue Gene/L with a comprehensive evaluation that consists of a number...
- Tags: I/O, High-performance, Blue Gene/L
- White papers 2008-01-01
- From Shrek to jet engines, supercomputers prove their mettle
- Each year the US Department of Energy entertains proposals for INCITE, a program aimed at advancing the state of the art in US industry. The winners get free computer time on DOE supercomputers. Two of the winners this year, Dreamworks Animation and Pratt & Whitney, gave presentations at SC07 about...
- Tags: Supercomputer, DreamWorks SKG, Engine, Multi-core, Computer, Productivity, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2007-11-19
- Symantec CEO John Thompson on Microsoft, Google and Switzerland
- Symantec CEO John Thomspon drinks deeply from the Microsoft well. In fact, three-quarters of his company's $5.2 billion in revenue last year was derived from the Windows platform. But Symantec's relationship with Microsoft is complex and at times contentious. Thompson describes Microsoft as a partner, ally and competitor.On the competitor...
- Tags: Symantec, Storage, Software Infrastructure, Security, SaaS, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- GPFS Multicluster With the IBM System Blue Gene Solution and eHPS Clusters
- This paper describes a case study in which an IBM System Blue Gene Solution supercomputer is configured to natively access General Parallel File System GPFS 2.3 file systems that are owned by an IBM eServer pSeries cluster with AIX 5L and the IBM eServer High Performance Switch eHPS. The IBM...
- Tags: Blue Gene, File System, IBM Corp., Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2006-10-19
- SGI claims lead in supercomputer race
- SGI claims lead in supercomputer racePixar Studios, Jurassic Park, Titanic, Lord Of The Rings....What do all these movies have in common?All the special effects were done with LINUX OR UNIX!!Where, oh where is Microsloth?Again the beauty and power of Linuxis displayed! Hmmm, where are the Microsoft Windows supercomputers? Anton, can...
- Tags: Processors, Linux, Operating systems, UNIX, supercomputer, AMD Opteron, IBM PowerPC, FEWER CPU, processor, clock speed, Silicon Graphics Inc.
- Discussion threads 2004-10-26
- AMD bounces back with $44 million profit
- AMD bounces back with $44 million profitNice to see, but...They need to get people to use their processors. If you check the latest list of the Top 500 computers, AMD is seriously lacking, where Intel's processors rank as high as number 3.a good thing amd is aroundlast year intel...
- Tags: Processors, Semiconductors, Network technology, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., processor
- Discussion threads 2004-10-08
- Microsoft confirms supercomputing plans
- Microsoft confirms supercomputing plansLOL.. Super Flaws? Super Viruses? Super Stooopid.I really can't see anyone who's serious about supercomputing using an OS from the king of FLAWS.Per CPU License?Can you imagine paying for 4096 copies of Win2003 Server???High Performance WindowsDo the words 'high performance' and 'Windows' belong in the same...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Web browsers, Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Corp., supercomputing, operating system
- Discussion threads 2004-06-23
- IBM regains supercomputer bragging rights
- IBM regains supercomputer bragging rightsWhile the world focuses on Microsoft, IBM is slowly taking over...#1 in applications servers WebSphere, #1 in databases per Gartner, approaching #1 in servers IDC, and now #1 in super computers.You need to keep an eye on them !!!Questions...How much do these systems cost? (I assume...
- Tags: processor, supercomputer, IBM Corp., performance, Blue Gene
- Discussion threads 2004-06-20
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