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- 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
- Blue Gene/L tops own supercomputing record
- Blue Gene/L tops own supercomputing recordPetaflops are the way to goStill waiting for a petaflop processor....;-)dream... dream... dream...Software?So what OS/software do these things run????Doesn't the hardware need software to work?I think we are only getting half the story here.Surely it must be MS Windows SuperServerCluster 2005.Wonder what a license of...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, software, Blue Gene/L, supercomputing, operating system, computer, Petaflop
- Discussion threads 2005-03-23
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- Why computers fail
- Good failure data for PCs is hard to find: who knows how many times PC users are told to reinstall Windows? But in a recent paper, Bianca Schroeder and Garth Gibson of CMU found some surprising results in 10 years of large scale cluster system failures at Los Alamos National...
- Tags: Checkpoint, Multiprocessor, Failure, Computer, Desktop Computer, LANL, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- (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
- 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
- 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
- AMD: Barcelona OEM systems on track for April
- AMD said Wednesday that its Barcelona chips are on track to be available for purchase in April. Kevin Knox, vice president of AMD's commercial business, said in an interview at CNET's New York office that the chipmaker is set to ship Barcelona B3 parts to OEMs by...
- Tags: Barcelona, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- 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
- PS3 network supercomputer named world's most powerful
- Not by Jack Dongarra and the LINpack benchmark The Guinness Book of Records, the unimpeachable source for all things drinkers might bet on, has listed Stanford's Folding@Home network of distributed PS3's as the world's ". . .powerful distributed computing network." Yes, you can do real science...
- Tags: Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-11-02
- To controversy, NSF taps IBM, U of Illinois for supercomputer
- The National Science Foundation has chosen to IBM to help it build the world's fastest supercomputer at a cost of up to $400 million, The New York Times reports.The news of the contract award only escaped because relevant documents were mistakenly placed on a federal Website for a short time...
- Tags: National Science Foundation, Supercomputer, IBM Corp., ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
- Which supercomputers rule?
- Which supercomputers rule?You may be right. But it doesshow that Linux is a very high quality OS.I run Linux and Windows both. They both do what I need them to do.Is it significant that the 'nix OS's rule super computing? Probably not. But it does show...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, WCCS, NAND, supercomputer
- Discussion threads 2007-06-27
- News to know: Google Apps; iPhone Watch; Golden Rules
- Notable headlines:Danah Boyd: Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpaceTechMeme coverageDavid Berlind: Google improves ‘Apps', offers organizations clear path off Exchange, Notes, etc. to GMailiPhone Watch Dan Farber: Steve Jobs goes 'all in' with the iPhone Bloomberg: iPhone Euphoria May Lead to Investor Disappointment Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: iPhone - The bets are...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- New IBM supercomputer achieves petaflop
- New IBM supercomputer achieves petaflopA coup for IBM - BTW, is the 3 Petaflops Rpeak or Rmax?Oh well I suppose we'll find out tomorrowYou forgot one vital stat...it runs Linux! ]:) Just wanted to make sure there was no question about who the fastest in the world was.Senseless Metrics"Put another...
- Tags: New IBM supercomputer, New IBM, supercomputer
- Discussion threads 2007-06-26
- Petascale
- If history is any guide my little boy, whos now almost five, will have a personal petascale petaflop performance with petabyte storage computer before he graduates from University. What do you think hes going to do with it? My first thought on asking that question was along...
- Tags: Mainframes, Handhelds, network
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
- AMD opens up crown jewels with Torrenza Initiative
- At the AMD Global Vision Conference today, Marty Seyer, senior vice president of the commercial business unit, touted the Torrenza Initiative, which he said would enable the development and deployment of application-specific co-processors and other chips that work alongside AMD64 processors in multi-socket systems. First revealed in June, Torrenza basically...
- Tags: Torrenza Initiative
- Blog posts 2006-09-20
- Resurrection Time?
- Sun has a large group led by Guy Steele working on a language called "Fortress" -something they describe as "Java for scientists, Java for the programmers of a peta-scale supercomputer." Java started out as a hardware abstraction layer for set top TV boxes aimed at using the TV to provide...
- Tags: Java, APL
- Blog posts 2005-08-25
- 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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