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Supermicro launches Nvidia Tesla fueled server

Supermicro and Nvidia took the wraps off a class of server that's turbo charged by graphics processors.  At the Computex trade show in Taiwan, Supermicro is demonstrating a server that features Nvidia's Tesla GPUs with multi-core processors in a single 1U rack server.  Supermicro...

Tags: Teraflop, Quad-core, NVidia Corp., CPU, GPU, Supermicro, Processors, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-31

Cell Broadband Engine, Teraflop Processors and Disruptive Technologies 2008-2012

The Aerospace and Defense (A&D) industry is facing a unique opportunity to achieve breakthrough power in signal and data processing, security, simulation, modeling and surveillance with multi-core processors. To meet that demand, the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) architecture, a revolutionary new heterogeneous, multi-core chip architecture, promises new levels of efficiency...

Tags: Multi-core Processor, Teraflop, Broadband, Multi-core, Aerospace, Cell, Processors, Aerospace & Defense, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Manufacturing

White papers 2007-08-01

Photos: Intel teraflop chip on board

Intel last week demonstrated an 80-core chip capable of producing 1 trillion floating-point operations per second, known as a teraflop.

Tags: Intel Corp., teraflop, chip, board

Image galleries 2007-02-11

PS3 based super-computing cluster on Linux

PS3 based super-computing cluster on LinuxNot yetThe PS3 is NOT made to be a computer. Important things like power supplies are not up to datacenter specs. Six hundred bucks is a bit pricey (you're paying for the Blu-ray) for a Cell - you could get 2 Xbox 360s for that...

Tags: Network technology, Game players, Linux, processor, Sony PlayStation 3, gigaflop, truckload, teraflop, chip

Discussion threads 2006-11-29

Images: 35 years of Intel chip design

Here is a look at how Intel chips have evolved--from the company's very first microprocessor, the 4004, through the teraflop-ready 80-core prototype of tomorrow.

Tags: Semiconductors, teraflop, microprocessor, chip, Intel Corp.

Image galleries 2006-11-13

Canadian university buys Dell supercomputer

Canadian university buys Dell supercomputerDoesn't seem like a very good dealLet's see, this computer costs $7 million and has a theoretical peak of 13.9 teraflops. Compare that with Virginia Tech's system or the new Mach 5 system the Army is setting up:http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2004/tc2004083_7126_tc153.htmVa Tech: 17.6 teraflops, $5.2 millionMach 5:...

Tags: supercomputer, Canadian University, Dell Computer Corp., Apple Inc., teraflop

Discussion threads 2005-05-18

Blue Gene, Linux top supercomputing list

Blue Gene, Linux top supercomputing listGo big blue!Powered by Linux no less!Where are all the AMD & Intel fanboys????Awfully quiet in here........Actually, Linux is a failure.OK, let's use some simple logic. Our postulate is that Linux is long since beaten in the server and HPC world (which, of course, is...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Blue Gene, teraflop, LINUX IS, Linux, computer, supercomputer, supercomputing

Discussion threads 2004-11-08

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

Additional Resources

Radeon HD 5970 - ATI's killer graphics card

You know what else is impressive?The foot long length of the thing.Alsothe noise level from the leaf-blower coolers to keep this thing from burning your house down.Seriously though, down for getting one, but not till a 3rd party gives us one with some custom cooling options. Although I guess they...

Tags: killer graphics card, Radeon HD 5970, Radeon HD, Radeon, ATI Technologies Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Purdue University Selects Intel Xeon Processors for "Steele" - A New 26.8-Teraflop Community HPC Cluster

Purdue University wanted to capitalize on the purchasing power of several research groups to build a powerful shared cluster at a lower cost than multiple departmental clusters and select an industry-standard processing architecture that enables researchers to run a wide array of scientific code. Purdue's Rosen Center for Advanced Computing...

Tags: Purdue University, Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Processors, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Case studies 2008-11-01

Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open Source

Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open SourcePerhaps if you read what you wroteYou say regarding Wintel:"you'll find 2o FTEs an extremely conservative minimum just to keep the lights on."and then regarding Solaris:"you're going to be paying about ten people, four of whom you don't actually need every day"Your statement about doubling...

Tags: Servers, Operating systems, UNIX, environment, Microsoft Corp., development environment, server, Sun Solaris, Solaris Servers, Wintel, open source

Discussion threads 2008-08-14

NVIDIA responds to Intel's Larrabee GPU

NVIDIA responds to Intel's Larrabee GPUCISC and RISC.I have wondered how Intel proposed to scale their CISC x86 instruction set up to more than a few cores. They can only do this by reducing the complexity of each core, and use less transistors. That means dropping all the clever stuff...

Tags: Processors, Semiconductors, NVidia Corp., Intel Larrabee, GPU, Intel Corp., Intel Larrabee GPU, graphics

Discussion threads 2008-08-13

The lowdown on Intel's Larrabee

With Siggraph 2008 starting next week and IDF Intel Developer Forum on its heels, Intel is revealing more details of its mysterious Larrabee project. Intel has finally stated unequivocally that its "many-core" architecture will be used in desktop add-in boards for 3D gaming that compete directly with AMD and Nvidia...

Tags: NVidia Corp., Intel Corp., GPU, Larrabee, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-08-05

Multi-core Intel chips to be used in handhelds and supercomputers?

Multi-core Intel chips to be used in handhelds and supercomputers?Wow, good news!First off, great article. Enjoyed reading it.Secondly, I have a system that is about three years old in general. Well, the box and mobo. A wonderful DouCore 3.0Mhz machine for testing purposes. I am running, at the time, an...

Tags: Semiconductors, FSB, Multi-core Intel chip, Multi-Core Intel, Larrabee, processor, NVidia Corp., chip, supercomputer, multi-core, handheld

Discussion threads 2008-08-04

The more things change

The more things changeBe productive with a touch only computer ?"The potential is amazing - you can imagine was well as I can, I think, what a 12″ iPhone replacement for the traditional laptop could do for user productivity"You are talking of home user or of business user ?Because i...

Tags: Processors, Linux, Operating systems, Intel x86, PPC, GPU, Microsoft Windows XP, security

Discussion threads 2008-07-30

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

Why Linux won the embedded market?

Why Linux won the embedded market?Name of the game is scalability ...That's were Linux shines in this respect. From tiny embedded systems all the way up to massive teraflop supercomputers, [b]that's[/b] scalability.The world doesn't owe its living to Microsoftand in the cut throat business world why on earth would any...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Corporate law, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Linux

Discussion threads 2008-06-02

Sun buys Cluster File Systems assets

Sun Microsystems' open source moves continue to snowball. On Wednesday, Sun said it will acquire the majority of Cluster File Systems intellectual property and assets. This purchase includes the Lustre File System. So what's it mean? Sun adds a parallel file system provider to its stable,...

Tags: Asset, Sun Microsystems Inc., ZFS, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-09-12

What today's X-Box and PS3 Games mean for us

To a much larger extent than most people understand, the fact that all three major games consoles are now on PPC presages change in general business computing. I'm not talking about the hardware or Wii's obvious potential for slideware - I'm thinking about the implications for software...

Tags: Game, Sony PlayStation 3, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-09-10

Sell magic

Sell magicWrong again, MurphWe're buying AMD64 machines for two reasons:1) They run the software that we need for our business2) At over $100K/cpu license, the [b]last[/b] thin we need is massively parallel at lower per/cpu performance.Power6 would be better for (2) but runs up against (1). SPARC (which until...

Tags: Processors, DSP, Cell, CPU, software, processor, Sun Sparc, game

Discussion threads 2007-07-18