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Jaquar chases Roadrunner for fastest supercomputer

Jaquar chases Roadrunner for fastest supercomputerEcologically appropriateWhile I doubt roadrunners coexist with jaguars in nature, at least it could be a better race than roadrunner vs. coyote, minus the explosives.If these systems were to run Vista ....they would be obsolete before completing the boot up sequence.What are they used forWow,...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Jaquar, supercomputer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Roadrunner, fastest supercomputer

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

(Gallery: Roadrunner: World's fastest supercomputer)

(Gallery: Roadrunner: World's fastest supercomputer)Wow...I am seriously in love.How long to have a petaflop desktop?mputer)Well if you install Linux, you'll be halfway there already. The operating system that makes all this hardware work at petaflop speeds is Linux and Free Open Source Software.RE: (Gallery: Roadrunner: World's fastest supercomputer)Remember just how...

Tags: Linux, UNIX, Now Let, supercomputer, Roadrunner, fastest supercomputer, Gallery

Discussion threads 2008-06-18

The world's fastest supercomputer

IBM's Blue Gene/L can perform 70.7 trillion calculations per second, keeping its claim as the fastest supercomputer. Images: The world's fastest supercomputer

Tags: fastest supercomputer, supercomputer, Blue Gene/L, IBM Corp.

Image galleries 2005-06-22

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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...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, desktop Linux, desktop

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Nvidia: Next big supercomputer player?

Nvidia unveiled its next-generation graphics processing unit GPU architecture, dubbed Fermi, and announced a key supercomputing win with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The takeaway: Graphics and visualization are becoming key to scientific discoveries. And Nvidia could be a major player. Oak Ridge's supercomputer will be used...

Tags: Supercomputer, NVidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Supercomputing, GPU, Fermi, Oak Ridge, CNET News, JMP Securities Alex Gauna, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-01

HP's newest supercomputer geared for energy and environment

The newest supercomputer in town isn't for simulating nuclear explosions or the human brain, but rather take on arguably more pressing problems in areas such as climate science, hydrogen storage and molecular chemistry. Built by HP, the $21.4 million Chinook is a custom-made machine specifically designed for...

Tags: Researcher, Hewlett-Packard Co., Supercomputer, Environment, Chemistry, Chinook, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Biggest of the big: IBM dominates latest Green 500 supercomputer list

We all know that the concept of green computer can be twisted to serve pretty much any side of the argument I wrote just a few days ago why the mainframe might NOT be considered green but the fact is there are a lot truly BIG computers out there, in...

Tags: Supercomputer, Computer, IBM Corp., Productivity, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-15

Nehalem servers could spark a $27bn feeding frenzy

I spent most of Wednesday listening to Dell executives and their customers talk about Dell's new IT systems, especially its new Nehalem based servers. In the press room before the event, I was trying to read Dell's press release, and joking with colleagues that it was full...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., RISC, Information Technology, Microprocessor, Intel Corp., Nehalem Performance, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-03-26

News to know: Macs on sale, YouTube goes wide, Twitter, Cisco

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: A rare occurrence: Macs on sale Jason D. O'Grady: Apple retail stores to match prices Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple prepares for Black Friday blow-out! ...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, YouTube Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Cisco Systems Inc., Twitter, Telemarketing, AJAX, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Digital Media, Marketing, Marketing Research, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-26

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

Gallery: Roadrunner: World's fastest supercomputer

It took miles of wire and a bunch of processors from PlayStation 3, but IBM was able to break the 1-petaflop barrier for supercomper speed. by Andy Smith

Tags: Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andy Smith, supercomputer, IBM, Red Hat

Image galleries 2008-06-18

IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPC

Supercomputers are like muscle cars for IT: Few of us have one, but boy they are fun to look at. IBM on Tuesday touted that its supercomputer built for the National Nuclear Security Administration's Los Alamos National Lab is the most powerful system in the world. It...

Tags: Supercomputer, Blade, Sony Playstation, Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Chip, Supercomputing, NNSA Supercomputer, Roadrunner, Roadrunner System, Intel Quad-core Blade System, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-18

World's fastest computer at Energy Dept.

World's fastest computer at Energy Dept...."[B]It runs off of 12,960 IBM Cell chips, used in the Sony PS3, as well as over 7,000 dual-core AMD Opteron chips and 80 terabytes of memory, all running on the [U]Red Hat Linux OS.[/U][/B]"[url=http://www.dbtechno.com/computers/2008/06/10/ibm-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-world-record/]source[/url]Still the fastest and most scalable around... ]:)[url=http://www.crn.com/hardware/208402890]More detailed[/url] information about...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Semiconductors, Network technology, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, computer

Discussion threads 2008-06-10

PS3 chip powers world's fastest computer

Some scoffed at the 8 PS3 supercomputer. But not the scientists at Los Alamos National Labs. They used the idea to build a 1 petaflop computer named Roadrunner - the world's fastest. Here's how. 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second Fine-grained simulation of aging nuclear...

Tags: Sony PlayStation 3, Storage, AMD Opteron, RAM, Computer, Cell, Chip, Roadrunner, PowerXCell, InfiniBand, Processors, Networking, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-06-10

World's fastest computer at Energy Dept.

The Energy Department will use IBM's Roadrunner supercomputer -- the first petaflop computer -- the department announced this week, Reuters reports. A petaflop is 1,000 trillion operations per second. "Roadrunner will be used by the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration to perform calculations that vastly...

Tags: Department, Computer, Petaflop, Productivity, Construction, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-06-10

Of telescopes, patents and the death of discovery

“If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." --Isaac Newton. [The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those of Google, Inc. my current employer.] It isn't really a surprise that I ended up...

Tags: Software, Patent, Astronomer, Astronomy, Amateur, Computer, Computing Science, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Management, Jeremy Allison

Blog posts 2008-06-04

Leading University Creates UK's Fastest Academic Supercomputer Through Collaborative Partnership

Cambridge University has had supercomputers for use in complex research since 1992. Undertaking ground breaking research, users require cutting edge technology that provides optimum performance. At the end of a three-year system cycle, the university looked to implement a new system that would improve upon previous levels of high performance....

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., University Of Cambridge, Partnership, Supercomputer, High-performance, Leadership, Management

Case studies 2008-04-30

Yahoo inks cloud computing research pact with Tata unit

Yahoo said Monday that it has signed a cloud computing research pact with Computational Research Laboratories, a Pune, India-based subsidiary of Tata. Under the deal, Computational Research Laboratories CRL will make one of its supercomputers available for cloud computing research. Yahoo says it will use its CRL...

Tags: Apache Hadoop, Yahoo! Inc., Distributed Computing, Computational Research Laboratories, Cloud Computing, Network Technology, Open Source, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-24

Build a 10 Gbit home network for $1100

Create the ultimate gaming supercomputer? You've overclocked, water cooled, matched DIMMs, added 10k drives and the latest 1 GB video card. But so have all your friends. What now? How about a 10 Gig home network for the ultimate gaming supercomputer? In a pricing breakthrough...

Tags: Kit, Network, Home Network, Supercomputer, Adapter, Pricing Strategy, InfiniBand, Networking, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-01-31

U.K.'s fastest supercomputer unveiled

U.K.'s fastest supercomputer unveiledThe BRTISH - not too sure.I really must appologize to the GREAT BRITISH PUBLIC - but I love any story that 'rants' about anything GREAT coming from Britain. I love the 'spin'.I can say this with some degree of accuracy being British born and educated but having...

Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., supercomputer

Discussion threads 2008-01-19