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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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- Would you buy a personal supercomputer (for $8K)?
- I would buy one if I were...a research company crushing data, a graphics design films or static,... There are other candidates, not preciselly niche-players.I understand this goes against curent cluster computing, but it must make sense in some cases.O.o personal...sure >.> NTntOne Question?Can it play Doom?RenderingDepending on the video specs...
- Tags: Memory, Processors, supercomputer
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- Supermicro launches Nvidia Tesla fueled server
- Supermicro and Nvidia took the wraps off a class of server that's turbo charged by graphics processors. At the Computex trade show in Taiwan, Supermicro is demonstrating a server that features Nvidia's Tesla GPUs with multi-core processors in a single 1U rack server. Supermicro...
- Tags: Teraflop, Quad-core, NVidia Corp., CPU, GPU, Supermicro, Processors, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-31
- 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
- Highlights from the Apple notebook event
- Highlights from the Apple notebook event at Apple headquarters in Cupertino.Steve Jobs takes that stage and introduces Tim Cook who discusses Apple's 2-3x the market growth, Vista and their retail successes. US retail market share grows from single digits to 17.6% From 15 -...
- Tags: Multi-touch, Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., Apple Inc., Graphics, Aluminum, GPU, Steve, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- 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...
- Tags: Processors, OpenCL, Cell, Sony PlayStation 3, processor, PS3 chip powers world, chip, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-06-10
- First look at the ATI Radeon HD 3870
- Yesterday I received a nice surprise in the mail - a box from ATI containing a Radeon HD 3870. Unfortunately, I was in the grips of a nasty bout of stomach flu and not even the prospect of better frames per second couldn't convince me that it was a good...
- Tags: Card, ATI Radeon, ATI Technologies Inc., GPU, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- AMD touts 'stream computing' chip
- AMD on Thursday announced its AMD FireStream processor, which is designed to allow for parallel computing performance found in graphic chips. The chip is tailored for scientific and engineering calculations. In a nutshell, AMD's FireStream 9170 Stream Processor and its software development kit are designed to allow...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Computing, Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- Build a $2,500 supercomputer
- Build a $2,500 supercomputerYou do need a day off!Monday is Labor Day! lol!Add a Terabyte or four Raid Array to the system.Add a Terabyte or four Raid Array to the system. Available now for $600 in refurb units at buy.com. Don't forget the advent of quad cpu's...
- Tags: RAID, Performance management, Processors, Semiconductors, Blade servers, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Deep Blue, Cray Inc., supercomputer
- Discussion threads 2007-09-01
- Using yesterday to see tomorrow
- One of the comments I expect to get about the imaginary IEED research company is that I've picked the example specifically so that Wintel wouldn't have anything to offer, and to some extent that's true. What happened, however, wasn't a matter of picking an application to avoid Wintel, but that...
- Tags: Wintel, Compiler, Microsoft Corp., Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- News to know: AMD hypocritical; Second Life pol tricks; Mac Wi-Fi hack
- Notable headlines:George Ou: Is AMD being hypocritical about benchmark ethics?Multicore move cuts Oracle database cost.Mary Jo Foley: Could a startup beat Microsoft and Google to market with a ‘cloud OS’? Microsoft asks ‘So who wants to be a programmer?’Ryan Naraine: Maynor demos MacBook Wi-Fi hijack, admits mistakes. Gallery right. Flaw...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-03-02
- How to get 66.6 TeraFlops for $600
- How to get 66.6 TeraFlops for $60066.6 Teraflops?Gives new meaning to "Fast as Hell.":)Is there any known or planned ...Development to make those same tools more ... how can say ... easy to use ?Like with some C/C++ libraries that could take advantage of those same processing power capabilities. And...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Folding@Home, Single-precision, video, CPDN, video card
- Discussion threads 2007-03-01
- PS3 based super-computing cluster on Linux
- PS3 based super-computing cluster on LinuxNot yetThe PS3 is NOT made to be a computer. Important things like power supplies are not up to datacenter specs. Six hundred bucks is a bit pricey (you're paying for the Blu-ray) for a Cell - you could get 2 Xbox 360s for that...
- Tags: Network technology, Game players, Linux, processor, Sony PlayStation 3, gigaflop, truckload, teraflop, chip
- Discussion threads 2006-11-29
- Supercomputing in space
- Many of you know that the computers sent into space are not very powerful compared to the ones we use everyday on our desks. This is because space is a pretty tough environment: computers need to be ruggedized because of cosmic radiation, and this slows their performance while increasing their...
- Tags: radiation, computer, fault-tolerance
- Blog posts 2006-10-27
- Apple annouces new PowerBooks, PowerMacs; Aperture
- Apple annouces new PowerBooks, PowerMacs; ApertureThe new Power Mac should tie people over and well through the Intel switch.That is some serious horsepower there, FOUR processing units and 16GBs of RAM. That's well enough power to justify the purchase of a PPC Mac even if the Intel Macs will...
- Tags: Desktops, POWERBOOKS, Apple Power Mac, Intel Corp., Apple Inc., Aperture
- Discussion threads 2005-10-19
- Apple announces new PowerBooks, PowerMacs; Aperture
- NEW YORK -- I'm at the Jacob Javits center in Manhattan live blogging the Apple media event here today. On stage is David Moody, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Mac Product Marketing. "We have a number of announcements today, both hardware and software." David begins by...
- Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Apple PowerBook
- Blog posts 2005-10-19
- An Apple supercluster for Europe
- According to eWEEK and HPCWire, a U.K. startup company, Omneta plc, is about to build a distributed supercluster able to reach a peak performance of 120 teraflops for a sustained performance of about 70 teraflops. This supercomputer, which would become the most powerful in Europe, will be made of several...
- Tags: Omneta
- Blog posts 2005-10-07
- PPC vs. Intel: Top 500 shows who's right
- The latest listing of the top five hundred super computers was released in today. Number five, behind two other PowerPC based machines, an Itanium, and NEC's custom earth simulator, is the MareNostrum machine at the Barcelona Supercomputer Center. It runs Linux on a cluster of 4,800 PPC 970 CPUs running...
- Tags: R/Max, Linpack
- Blog posts 2005-06-22
- PPC vs. Intel: Top 500 shows who's right
- The latest listing of the top five hundred super computers was released in today. Number five, behind two other PowerPC based machines, an Itanium, and NEC's custom earth simulator, is the MareNostrum machine at the Barcelona Supercomputer Center. It runs Linux on a cluster of 4,800 PPC 970 CPUs running...
- Tags: Linpack, R/Max, R/peak
- Blog posts 2005-06-22
- Gates gives CEOs peek at Xbox 360 games
- Gates gives CEOs peek at Xbox 360 gamesDoes that mean only CEOs can afford them?Not some lowly grub like me..Besides, I'm waiting for the smaller, 2nd gen PS3 in a couple of years to mount in the Humvee.. LOL..at the end of the dayyou're 15, you want the uber console....
- Tags: Games, Game players, Sony PlayStation 3, game, console, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Corp., Sony Corp., Microsoft Xbox 360, hardware
- Discussion threads 2005-05-19
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