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- Nvidia: Next big supercomputer player?
- NVidia has a chanceNot all that surprisingly the concept of supercomputing on a small basis has finally filtered down to audio/video recording facilities, with the bulk of basics going to the CPU and the actual processing going to the GPU. This is a clear advancement when those of us...
- Tags: NVidia Corp., supercomputer, big supercomputer player, supercomputing, supercomputer player
- Discussion threads 2009-10-01
- Nvidia: Next big supercomputer player?
- Nvidia unveiled its next-generation graphics processing unit GPU architecture, dubbed Fermi, and announced a key supercomputing win with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The takeaway: Graphics and visualization are becoming key to scientific discoveries. And Nvidia could be a major player. Oak Ridge's supercomputer will be used...
- Tags: Supercomputer, NVidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Supercomputing, GPU, Fermi, Oak Ridge, CNET News, JMP Securities Alex Gauna, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- News to know: PS3 supercomputing; latest Oracle flaw
- re MKV to XVID Converter||MKV to PS3 Converter both are brili tools for mkv convertible videos.
- Tags: MKV, Sony PlayStation 3, supercomputing, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-12
- Supercomputing Firm Offers World-Class Resources With Operating System Flexibility
- R Systems provides flexible High-Performance Computing HPC resources for academic researchers and commercial organizations. The company offers traditional Linux clusters as well as clusters that run on the Windows HPC Server 2008 operating system. By making Windows HPC Server available, R Systems increases productivity for its customers by using the...
- Tags: Operating System, Supercomputing, R Systems, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Linux, Open Source, Software
- Case studies 2009-07-01
- New Microsoft eXtreme Computing group takes aim at exascale calculations
- Microsoft has harnessed a number of its scalable/multicore/cloud initiatives to create a new eXtreme Computing Group XCG. The new unit, created this month, is being headed by Corporate Vice President and supercomputing expert Dan Reed. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Computing, Supercomputing, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- Malaga University's New Supercomputing Center of HP Products Perfectly Syncs With Diverse Users
- More than 40,000 students per year, including approximately 6,000 foreign students, attend Malaga University Universidad de Malaga of Andalusia in the South of Spain. Malaga University wanted to provide reliable, high-quality computing services for scientific researchers, various Malaga University departments, and outside educational facilities. The university equipped the supercomputing center...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Supercomputing, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Supercomputing Center Sees 46 Percent Performance Gain With HPC System
- The Las Vegas, Nevada - based National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment is a full-service supercomputing facility with a mission for excellence in education and research. The National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment wanted to expand the types of systems that it uses to include smaller,...
- Tags: Performance, Supercomputing
- Case studies 2009-05-01
- Selling Unix in 2009 - much easier than in 2008?
- Will selling Unix be easier in 2009 than it was in 2008? The opportunities are there - depressions provide the financial presures that move people to see better, cheaper, and faster solutions as lower risk than complex and expensive ones. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Sony Corp., Dell Computer Corp., Sony PlayStation 3, MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Sparc, Unix, Intel Corp., Cell, Supercomputing, Gaurav Khanna, Dell 2950 Solution, Processors, Linux, Open Source, Databases, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-01-12
- Leading UK Science & Technology Institution Drives Supercomputing Research With 3Com SuperStack 3 Switch 3870 Solutions
- Located in the South Kensington district of London, the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (www.ic.ac.uk/) is one of the world's foremost scientific, engineering, and medical research and teaching institutions. The institution required Gigabit solutions that deliver exceptional performance, high port-density to support clusters of workstations, and very competitive...
- Tags: 3Com Corp., 3Com SuperStack, Supercomputing
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Supercomputing Company Chooses Windows HPC Server 2008 Over Linux
- Many of China's largest organizations, from government departments to aviation and space companies, rely on Dawning Information Industry Company for High-Performance Computing HPC. In fact, the company owns more than 30 percent of the country's HPC market. Dawning previously used Linux HPC operating systems on its computers, but it wanted...
- Tags: Supercomputing, Linux, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Productivity, Open Source, Software
- Case studies 2008-11-01
- KAUST to house fastest supercomputer in Middle East
- Thanks to one of my tipsters, I was informed the other day that KAUST, the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, have teamed up with IBM to build the fastest and most powerful supercomputer in the Middle East. KAUST is one of the most modern, dedicated...
- Tags: Supercomputer, University, Middle East, Supercomputing, KAUST, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Photos: Supercomputing at Oak Ridge
- Just outside Knoxsville, Tenn., lies one of the world's great supercomputer labs. CNET News' Daniel Terdiman takes a tour. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Supercomputer, Photograph, Supercomputing, CNET News, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-07-08
- 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
- 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
- Leading Supercomputing Center in Italy Eases Use, Improves Access With New Cluster
- CINECA wanted to make supercomputing resources available to more researchers from private industry sectors, but many were unfamiliar with its Linux-based tools and interfaces. To improve access to high-performance computing, CINECA decided to become an early adopter of Windows HPC Server 2008. Researchers will be able to connect to the...
- Tags: Researcher, Microsoft Access, Supercomputing
- Case studies 2008-06-12
- 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
- More images and products from supercomputing 2007
- More images and products from supercomputing 2007Drooling at the power of these systemsI would love to see a fully assembled multi-floor constellation.Better yet, I would love to see the numbers on one of them.I will have to see if I can swing by this even next time they have it.Everyone...
- Tags: Blade servers, Utility computing, Servers, power supply, blade, blade server, server, supercomputing
- Discussion threads 2007-11-16
- More images and products from supercomputing 2007
- The SC07 supercomputing conference was a very interesting show for me this year and it was my first time attending this conference. Here are some more interesting products that I haven't covered yet all the way from the very high-end to entry-level HPC computers. Sun's 3456-node "petascale" constellation cluster...
- Tags: Processor, Blade Server, Blade, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, Power Supply, Motherboard, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Supercomputing, Tyan, 1U, TST, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- Photos: SC07 supercomputing
- IBM, Intel Sun Microsystems, and Super Micro have their wares on display at the SC07 supercomputing conference. by George Ou
- Tags: Photograph, Supercomputing, George Ou, tech action, SC07 supercomputing Intel IBM
- Image galleries 2007-11-13
- 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...
- Tags: Vista SUTU, IBM Corp., supercomputing mark, Roadrunner, supercomputing, Please Let
- Discussion threads 2007-11-12
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