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- Roadrunner
- The first supercomputer to reach one petaFLOPS one quadrillion floating point operations per second. Running under Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Roadrunner comprises 12,960 Cell chips, 6,948 dual-core AMD chips...
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- 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...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-23
- 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,...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-17
- To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before
- To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone BeforeRE: To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone BeforeAs long as Google doesn't allow their network to become self aware or allow it to tie into the entire global military defense network there shouldn't be a problem. Installing the...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-07
- (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...
- Discussion threads 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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- IBM's Roadrunner set to smash supercomputing marks
- IBM's Roadrunner set to smash supercomputing marksIt Runs Vista SUTU Decently!Not much in this article about the software, but we have been working with IBM for over a year tuning this to run SUTU! You should see it run our cutting edge programs like Paint07, Access, Faxviewer, ... wow! more...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-12
- DNS could slow broadband service
- DNS could slow broadband serviceGraphics card?Here's a clue - when it comes to browsing the web, I would *certainly* put DNS response time *far* above how fast your graphics card is able to render an image in the scheme of things that make a perceptible speed difference.That has to be...
- Discussion threads 2006-08-17
- Time Warner packages AOL with Road Runner
- Time Warner packages AOL with Road RunnerRoadRunnerThere prices are very very high. I live in a area that does not have fiber optic and cannot get any DSL from any company. BellSouth will not update our phone system. There are about 600 phone users in our area but they say...
- Discussion threads 2005-11-17
- AOL ready to reinvent itself
- AOL ready to reinvent itselfAOLNo matter what AOL does, unless they DRASTICALLY improve their technical support and customer service, they will go down the tubes.I have had problems throughout the years and at one time their tech support people simply read what they believed was the remedy from a 'problems'...
- Discussion threads 2005-08-02
- Glitch slows RoadRunner newsgroups
- Glitch slows RoadRunner newsgroupsNelson, laught at that silly RoadRunnerTime Warner, ohh the comedy you created over the last few internet years.
- Discussion threads 2003-11-19
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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...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- Gaping security hole in Time Warner cable routers
- how about telling us how to fix it?Can the customer log into their own router and change the vulnerable settings? Please advise.Patetic simply pateticThis is a worst case scenario... Time Warner is guilty of having used the same Admin Name/Password on all their routers and from what I read on...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-29
- The United States of broadband: All of the speed is on the east coast
- The United States of broadband: All of the speed is on the east coastWhich is not surprisingas the United States is the third most populated country in the world, with the third largest land mass per country behind Canada and Russia, I would imagine it takes time and money to...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-09
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-17
- The failure of McNealy's ponytail strategy
- The failure of McNealy's ponytail strategyKind of sad.Sun has brought many great technologies to the market so it's sad to see them go. I don't think Sun knew how to sell open source? It's a tricky thing when a company sells software with it's hardware and then gives...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-04
- Wolfram Alpha...Brilliant tool, Google killer, or lots of hype?
- Wolfram Alpha...Brilliant tool, Google killer, or lots of hype?You nailed it, mostly."Or is this the future of search and a new, powerful tool for students and teachers?" - yes. Wolfram|Alpha allows you to move away from the user-generated-information web paradigm when it's most useful to do so. It's an "answer...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-09
- 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....
- Blog posts 2009-02-23
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