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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

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Net neutrality: a faster Internet for all

If I pay my ISP for fast speeds, I should get it.If I pay my ISP for fast speeds, I should get it.I do [b]not[/b] want my internet to slow down just because some person on the [b]other[/b] end didn't pay for priority traffic.Net Neutrality had to happen in the...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Internet Service Provider, Net Neutrality, faster Internet, Toll-Free, population density, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Windows 7 activation ... FAIL!

Windows 7 activation ... FAIL!They sure have...Now if they'd only do so by making an actual good product rather than just locking everybody into using it....No SoI've been running Linux since giving up on Windows by having too many BSOD screens with Windows ME. And frankly, given Windows Genuine PITA...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows 7, Linux, Microsoft Windows, desktop

Discussion threads 2009-07-29

News to know: Intel-Nokia; Netbooks; Security Essentials; Oracle; Win7

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Dana Blankenhorn: Intel-Nokia deal boosts open source Jason Hiner: A Nokia, Intel partnership makes sense, but they...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Nokia Corp., Dana Gardner, Dana Blankenhorn, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Netbook, Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Roadrunner, Jaguar retain supercomputer edge

Roadrunner, Jaguar retain supercomputer edgeA serious question ...So, has it gotten to the point where building a supercomputer is just a matter of putting a load of blades together, with some essentially off-the-shelf software?Or are these systems still running largely customized hardware and software, not for applications, but as the...

Tags: supercomputer, Roadrunner, Jaguar

Discussion threads 2009-06-23

Run Ubuntu inside Windows with Portable Ubuntu

Run Ubuntu inside Windows with Portable Ubuntuwht happens on Vista x64?Did you try this on a 64bit system (Vista or Win7)? I tried to run it on Vista x64 SP1 but it fails giving an error. I found the same result on the internet.Live CD is betterIt seems to...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), OPEN SOURCE, wht, Live CD, Ubuntu, Portable Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-04-17

PPoPP 2009 wrap-up

The 3-day Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2009) conference ended last week with a session on parallel compilers and tools, another on high end computing software, and a keynote by ACM fellow Jack Dennis. Although the last day was a short one, it was not light on content....

Tags: Compiler, Memory, Conference, Los Alamos National Lab Roadrunner Computer, Composability, Flash Memory, Processors, Productivity, Development Tools, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-02-23

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...

Tags: Processors, Blue Gene, Petaflop

Discussion threads 2009-02-09

Rednecks, old computers, and TCO

Rednecks, old computers, and TCOThis site...http://www.dtschmitz.comruns on a 2001 Gateway Laptop model 450SX: 1.6GHz ATA 80GB drive 512MB RAM ATI Radeon LY openSUSE 11 Linux Apache MySQL Perl Movable Type CMS Asterisk PBX cron rsnapshot to an external USB WD 80GB MyBook in my home.GoDaddy $10 Domain Reg. Email: Google...

Tags: ROI/TCO, PRODUCTIVITY, OPEN SOURCE, Redneck, TCO, old computer, Linux, Murph, photograph, computer

Discussion threads 2009-02-07

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

Help Steve Jobs (Or GM) Design The iCar

Help Steve Jobs Or GM Design The iCarPLEASE............And I suppose when it needs a new battery...I have to spend USD$5,000.00 to ship the car back to Stevie Boy to get it replaced?And is he going to limit what type of fuel it runs on, and how often I can fill...

Tags: iCAR, Steve Jobs, car, UAW, General Motors Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-13

How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability

The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...

Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-25

What happens when you patch the Internet?

What happens when you patch the Internet?Most home users do *not* have a router...and they are the largest number of systems exposed to the network. Corporate systems are already protected, and are likely not running Zone Alarm anyway.For the home user Windows XP's firewall is less than secure --...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Patches, Domain names, ZoneAlarm, Internet, patch, server, DNS server, security

Discussion threads 2008-07-09

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

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

IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPCSupercomputer Uses.I don't want to sound dumb, but unless the NNSA does nuclear simulations couldn't they keep track of their nuclear stockpile with a Windows, Linux or Mac machine? :-)Update: I read another article related to the supercomputer that states they...

Tags: Game players, Sony Playstation, supercomputing, IBM Corp., HPC, Intel Corp., chip, Crysis

Discussion threads 2008-06-18

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

Comcast vs. BitTorrent to be focus of FCC hearing

Comcast vs. BitTorrent to be focus of FCC hearingDidn't Comcast deny they are even doing this?I'm SURE they would not lie to us.Comcast has uniqe problemsIn essence, they need to protect their network. However, for most ISPs Internet is their business. Comcast is a cable provider trying to be in...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), FCC, Comcast Corp., BitTorrent

Discussion threads 2008-02-22

Net neutrality may not resolve BitTorrent v. Comcast

Net neutrality may not resolve BitTorrent v. ComcastWe are all criminals I supposeI've read about this so often I've been ignoring it. I was succeeding until I realized, while trying to download a new linux iso, that the reason the download wasn't completing successfully was because the connection was...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), BitTorrent, Comcast Corp., Internet Service Provider, bandwidth, Net Neutrality

Discussion threads 2007-11-30

(Images: The worst technologies in Q3 2006)

(Images: The worst technologies in Q3 2006)Articles like this get me to visit your site. Thanks!I subscribe to a few of your email news lists and mostly just read the headlines. Articles like this actually get me to visit your site to see the whole piece. It...

Tags: Piracy, Home networking, E-mail, DSL, Cable, Network technology, Digital music, Broadband Internet, Motorola Inc., Motorola SBG 900, Cox Cable, codec, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-10-13