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- 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
- ac3: Triumph in Teraflops - ac3 Breaks Australia's Teraflops Barrier
- Owned by the government of New South Wales NSW, ac3 is creating a world-class, High-Performance Computing HPC center that will help promote economic and employment growth in Australia by providing computing resources and services to industry, commerce, government and academia. ac3 built an Intel architecture - based supercomputing cluster with...
- Tags: Barrier, Teraflop, Australia, Intel Corp., Government, Performance Management, Vertical Industries, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software
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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
- 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
- How to get 66.6 TeraFlops for $600
- How to get 66.6 TeraFlops for $60066.6 Teraflops?Gives new meaning to "Fast as Hell.":)Is there any known or planned ...Development to make those same tools more ... how can say ... easy to use ?Like with some C/C++ libraries that could take advantage of those same processing power capabilities. And...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Folding@Home, Single-precision, video, CPDN, video card
- Discussion threads 2007-03-01
- Intel's 80 core CPU that isn't
- Heres a bit from the EETimes report: Intels researchers have produced an 80-core chip that uses less energy than a quad-core processor and has teraflop performance capabilities. Researchers have built the prototype to study how best to make that many cores communicate with each other. Theyre...
- Tags: General, Hardware, Unanswered questions
- Blog posts 2007-02-21
- (Photos: Intel teraflop chip on board)
- (Photos: Intel teraflop chip on board)Tera-many, Flop-failureI wouldn't care if they have eighty cores priced at eighty bucks. You only get to shaft me once, dudes. Thanks AMD, you understand what customer service means...please don't forget it.
- Tags: Corporate governance, teraflop chip, board, photograph, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-02-13
- Intel's Teraflop Prototype
- Intel's Teraflop PrototypeWe need New Storage TechnologyALL present day storage operates in the giga region, maximum.We need NEW storage technology like Spintronics that operatesin the peta and tera region of data transfers and data storage capacity. Here is a company that will have symbiotic relationships with Vista and Intel's new...
- Tags: New Storage Technology, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-02-12
- Intel's Teraflop Prototype
- Intel is demonstrating a Teraflop chip at the International Solid States Circuits Conference in San Francisco today. The chip has 80 cores. See pictures The prototype isnt compatible with current Intel processors and it doesnt talk to external memory yet--so dont start dreaming of chipping your current machine...
- Tags: chip, General, Intel, Intel Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- Intel's 80-core concept car
- If Intel were to do a concept car ala General Motors or Toyota, an 80-core chip is exactly what it would build.The chipmaker’s Intel Research group, at this week’s International Solid-State Circuits Conference, unveiled more of the details behind its 80-core Teraflops Research Chip. The chip, which was first disclosed...
- Tags: chip, Intel Corp., Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- In search of killer threaded apps
- Wanted: Killer applications that take advantage of Intels hyper-threading technology. The goal: Develop software that best uses multicore chips and take computing to the next level. Must be fluent in geeked-out terms such as parallelism. Contact: James Reinders, director of marketing and business at Intels software developer products...
- Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, Intel, James Reinders
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
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