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- Petaflops, Megawatts, and data files
- Petaflops, Megawatts, and data filesWell..As far as I can read from the article you are quoting then Sequoia will be a 'Blue Gene' type system, which is something very different from the Blade based Roadrunner.Have a look at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_GeneIt's basically based around the PPC440, I think they use a quad core...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-09
- 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...
- White papers 2006-10-19
- Second Blue Gene system rises up the ranks
- Second Blue Gene system rises up the ranksTotal cost to customersAccording to Technewsworld:http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/43754.html"The Watson Blue Gene would cost about $40 million to build for other customers, based on the price of about $2 million per rack of processors." and "The Watson Blue Gene power usage will probably run about US$400,000...
- Discussion threads 2005-06-13
- IBM sells Blue Gene for brain research
- IBM sells Blue Gene for brain researchFirst step to JUDGEMENT DAY!Next headline "blue gene out of control!"
- Discussion threads 2005-06-06
- IBM adds Blue Gene to rental program
- IBM adds Blue Gene to rental programMMM....The Power of POWER.Don't have a need for this yet, but if they happen to have any extra CPU power, they should probably donate it to a folding project.Sun the most aggressive?If by calling it the "most aggressive" you mean that Sun is offering...
- Discussion threads 2005-03-11
- Blue Gene, Linux top supercomputing list
- Blue Gene, Linux top supercomputing listGo big blue!Powered by Linux no less!Where are all the AMD & Intel fanboys????Awfully quiet in here........Actually, Linux is a failure.OK, let's use some simple logic. Our postulate is that Linux is long since beaten in the server and HPC world (which, of course, is...
- Discussion threads 2004-11-08
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2004-06-20
- IBM plans second Blue Gene supercomputer
- IBM plans second Blue Gene supercomputerIBM is OFFSHORING OVER 40,000 JOBS BY 2005! FACTIF YOU GO TO GOOGLE.COM AND TYPE IN IBM OFFSHORING THEY ARE SENDING THE LINUX JOBS OVER SEASIBM is OFFSHORING OVER 40,000 JOBS BY 2005! FACTIF YOU GO TO GOOGLE.COM AND TYPE IN IBM OFFSHORING...
- Discussion threads 2004-02-20
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2003-11-14
Additional Resources
- Who's a candidate for Desktop Linux? Your Kids.
- My kids know Linux, OSX, and XP, and will obviously learn Windows 7, butskip Vista, though they will have contact with Vista. My son prefers OSX, my daughter Ubuntu.But, just like every kid should be taught at least two languages at home, they should also learn multiple OSes. Learning multiple...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- As Blu-ray sales surge, Best Buy holds on as format's top seller
- As Blu-ray sales surge, Best Buy holds on as format's top sellerCan't possibly be trueZDNet has been writing of zero prospects for Blu-ray's since MS lost with it's HD-DVD format. Come to think of it the failure of HD-DVD was also a surprise given the number of articles ZDNet pushed...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-11
- Algorithms everywhere: Can IBM automate business decisions?
- IBM outlined a vision---and of course a new services unit to go with it---that takes a little time to grok. Big Blue talked about the "information journey," fact-based enterprises and nudging out gut calls in everyday management for decisions based on hard, cold facts. But when you boil it all...
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- A new method to study origin of life
- A new method to study origin of lifeStart from the other endStart with a conclusion, then only accept/invent things that support that conclusion. The kool-aid is so much smoother that way. ;)Phylogenetic algorhythmsAn evaluation of the worth of the methodology should start with examining how the analysis is accomplished.You may...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- PS3 chip powers world's fastest computer
- PS3 chip powers world's fastest computer.... i believe the link is wrongnice article. i think its a fantastic achievement by IBM. but i believe the link you supplied to the best article you found on roadrunner is incorrect as it merely links back to your own blog posting....And it runs..All...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-10
- From fungus to fuel
- An international team of researchers led by some U.S. Department of Energy's research labs has decoded the genetic sequence of a fungus named Tricoderma reesei. The team has found how this organism breaks down plant fibers into simple sugars and how to use this fungus to produce fuel. 'The finding...
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Apple blows through estimates; Ships 2.29 million Macs; Outlook light by design?
- Apple blows through estimates; Ships 2.29 million Macs; Outlook light by design?Lapped?[i]Apple in its fiscal second quarter shipped 2.29 million Macs to lap even the most optimistic Wall Street projections.Apple had been expected to ship 2.1 million Macs, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, one of Apple's biggest supporters...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-23
- ZDNet gets a facelift: The changes at a glance
- ZDNet gets a facelift: The changes at a glanceJealous of Vista getting all the hate???Yuck - not digging the new design. Just because MS makes things needlessly busy and overcomplicated doesn't mean ZD should be emulating that approach.Bring back separate blog lists.The look is good, not sure I prefer...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-02
- 3-D pictures of a cancer-promoting enzyme
- Researchers at Johns Hopkins have built a 3-D picture of an enzyme which can promote many types of cancers after mutation. This enzyme, known as PIK3CA, "is mutated frequently in many cancers, including colon, brain, stomach, breast and lung." According to the researchers, the new details discovered about the enzyme...
- Blog posts 2008-01-06
- 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...
- White papers 2008-01-01
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