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New approach gives Purdue serious computing power: Purdue University will be replacing its current research computing clusters on May 5th with one of the world's largest supercomputers. While this isn't especially surprising at a school known for its computer science expertise, the funding model and installation are far more novel. Interestingly, the supercomputer,...; Tags: Purdue University, Supercomputer, Computing, Computer, Productivity, Research & Development, Business Operations, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-05-01
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: Cloud Computing, Supercomputer, Yahoo! Inc., Distributed Computing, Computational Research Laboratories, Network Technology, Open Source, Networking, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-03-24
Supercomputing and the art of the sales pitch: Supercomputers are wonderful things. Meaningful research gets done and geeks everywhere can drool over the specs like car buffs fawning over a vintage Corvette. But there's also a subtle sales pitch, which explains why most large tech vendors play like IBM and HP play in the high-performance computing space. ...; Tags: Supercomputer, Sun Microsystems Inc., Supercomputing, Sales Strategy, Sales, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-03-03
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

MIT students at it again: bike-powered supercomputers: MIT students at it again: bike-powered supercomputerspedal power.Do you have a source for parts and blueprints?; Tags: supercomputer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Discussion threads 2007-12-22
MIT students at it again: bike-powered supercomputers: 10 MIT students rode bicycles attached to dynamos and powered a Linux-based supercomputer for 20 minutes, according to an article in Computerworld. The effort, designed to both win a place in the Guinness Book of World Records and to win a prize from Google, also highlighted low-power computer designs...; Tags: Supercomputer, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2007-12-20
A supercomputer to design better plants?: Is it possible to create more productive crops than nature does without growing hybrids or genetically modified plants? According to researchers at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC, the answer is yes . They've simulated photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert light to energy, with the help of supercomputers...; Tags: Researcher, Protein, Supercomputer, Gene, Plant, Computer, UIUC, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2007-11-26
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
NASA gets SGI 2048-core Itanium 2 supercomputer: NASA gets SGI 2048-core Itanium 2 supercomputerSo that's who's keeping SGI aliveGranted, I know that the Itanium 2 scales well, but so does the POWER6. In fact, if the POWER6 scales as well as it should, they would require half of the cores that the Itanium 2 would need....; Tags: Processors, Operating systems, Intel Itanium, IBM POWER6, Intel Itanium 2, Silicon Graphics Inc., HPC Space, NASA, supercomputer, Microsoft Windows; Discussion threads 2007-11-15
NASA gets SGI 2048-core Itanium 2 supercomputer: I had a chance to speak with NASA and SGI at the SC07 supercomputing convention in Reno this week where I saw one of the biggest super computers in the world.Â Pictured left is a 1024-core version of the Altix 4700 and NASA just bought one with twice as many...; Tags: SGI Altix, Processor, NASA, Supercomputer, Intel Itanium, Intel Itanium 2, Silicon Graphics Inc., SPECint_rate2006, SPECfp_rate2006, UNIX, Processors, InfiniBand, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Networking, George Ou; Blog posts 2007-11-15
News to know: supercomputer programming; Oracle Fusion; Patch day; Inbox 2.0: Notable headlines: Ed Burnette: SC07 Day 3: Programming bits and atoms. SiCortex wins Dev Connection "Sexiest in show" award. Emerging hardware to force drastic changes in programming. George Ou: IBM's liquid cooled System p 575 Power6 supercomputer. Gallery right. Dan...; Tags: Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Oracle Corp., Network, Supercomputer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Programming, European Union, DNS-changing Trojan, Development Tools, Desktops, Networking, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Hardware; Blog posts 2007-11-14
IBM's liquid cooled System p 575 Power6 supercomputer: IBM's liquid cooled System p 575 Power6 supercomputerIt needs some Cold CathodesSorry, but the first thing I thought of was modding this beast.Something like the following:http://www.schrankmonster.de/content/binary/sun_leuchtet_thumb.jpgNow that's a super supercomputer.Don't forget historyI remember that there was a problem with some water cooled systems in years gone by. If the...; Tags: supercomputer, heat-pipe, IBM POWER6, liquid, leak, IBM Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-11-13
IBM's liquid cooled System p 575 Power6 supercomputer: At the SC07 supercomputing conferenceÂ image galleryÂ in Reno Nevada, IBM previewed the liquid cooled 32-core 4.7 GHz System p 575 Power6 supercomputer last night at the opening gala.Â What sets this server apart is that it actually returns to a water cooling system which were common in older mainframes but shunned...; Tags: Supercomputer, IBM POWER6, Server, IBM Corp., Servers, Hardware, George Ou; Blog posts 2007-11-13
SC07 Day 1: supercomputers and... Pikachu?: SC07 Day 1: Supercomputers and... Pikachu?Those SC07 codesActually, The S= Sunday, M=Monday and T= Tech, where the Tech conference is the conference that starts on Tuesday and runs until the end of the week. I also have an O, which no one can seem to tell me what it stands...; Tags: SC07 Day 1, Pikachu, lanyard, supercomputer; Discussion threads 2007-11-12
SC07 Day 1: supercomputers and... Pikachu?: Sunday dawned bright and cold for Day One of the SuperComputing 2007 conference. During a short bus ride to the convention center I found myself wedged in the last seat next to Pikachu. It turns out Pikachu is a college student competing in a performance challenge...; Tags: Supercomputer, Guard, Conference, Breakfast, Microsoft Windows, Sales Tools, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Ed Burnette; Blog posts 2007-11-11
On the road to SC07: Last night I arrived in Reno Nevada for the SC07 conference, the international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis. I've signed up for a number of tutorials and papers so I'll have a lot more to say about it over the next week. Meanwhile after I settled...; Tags: Supercomputer, Computer, Productivity, Ed Burnette; Blog posts 2007-11-11
PS3 network supercomputer named world's most powerful: PS3 network supercomputer named world's most powerfulI thought the debate...with the PS3 as a supercomputer platform was centered around how it has good 'paper' performance, but due to its non-64 'bitness' and narrow pipes - it was not a viable node, as it may have the hertz but not the...; Tags: network, Sony PlayStation 3, supercomputer, network supercomputer; Discussion threads 2007-11-02
Build an 8 PS3 supercomputer: Build an 8 PS3 supercomputerConsumerisation=toys not computing"On StorageMojo I’ve often addressed the consumerization of IT. The PS3 represents the consumerization of supercomputing. That will benefit us all."I'd change the last sentance to "That COULD benefit us all."But will it? Reading through a few channel 9 blogs a couple of days...; Tags: supercomputer, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PlayStation 2; Discussion threads 2007-10-30
News to know: Meebo; IBM; Gmail 2.0; PS3 supercomputer: Notable headlines: Robin Harris: Build an 8 PS3 supercomputer. IBM aims to salvage silicon for solar industry. Gallery right. Michael Krigsman: What's the value in enterprise software? Dan Farber: Meebo joins the season of platforms. Tom Foremski: Battle...; Tags: Google Gmail, Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Supercomputer, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., E-mail Providers, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Spam, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Emerging Technologies, Security, Spam And Phishing; Blog posts 2007-10-30