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Recently green-lit to be built at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IBM's future Blue Waters supercomputer is peta'd all over. It'll have up to 2-petaflops processing speed, more than a petabyte of memory and a 10 petabyte disk storage system.

Cray has unveiled a petascale-era cooling technology it says is more than 10 times as efficient as same-size water coils. They call it ECOphlex technology. The cabinet infrastructure can use either Cray’s high-efficiency vertical air cooling or our new phase change cooling technology that converts an inert refrigerant, R134a, from a liquid to a gas.

Cray has unveiled a petascale-era cooling technology it says is more than 10 times as efficient as same-size water coils. They call it ECOphlex technology.The cabinet infrastructure can use either Cray’s high-efficiency vertical air cooling or our new phase change cooling technology that converts an inert refrigerant, R134a, from a liquid to a gas.

A US military supercomputer has broken the petaflop speed record by performing one thousand trillion calculations per second. The ‘Roadrunner’ machine was developed at the Los Alamos Laboratory and uses AMD Opteron chips and the Cell processors found in PlayStation games consoles.

Microsoft Scrapes Into Top 500 Supercomputer List, But IBM Rules... Linux Today Thu, 06/19/2008 - 17:45 iTWire: "But the real news isn't about Microsoft, it's about IBM's stunning top 10 wipeout of the competition, starting with IBM's super speedy RoadRunner and its PETAflop of performance..."

iTWire: "But the real news isn't about Microsoft, it's about IBM's stunning top 10 wipeout of the competition, starting with IBM's super speedy RoadRunner and its PETAflop of performance..."

Talkibie has covered the concept of cloud computing in relation to its effects on software and as a technology base.  In this regard, cloud computing, or using a remote network of decentralized machines to complete an individual user’s request, is inherently self-serving.  Recently, educational and

From PhysicsWorld: A supercomputer designed by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US has broken the “petaflop barrier”, making it the most powerful supercomputer in the world. Performing over one thousand trillion calculations per second, the $100m “Roadrunner” supercomputer is

After my response to Jon Toigo on Drunken Data with my post [Eleven answers about Deduplication], Jon follows up with a request to validate the numbers quoted in the February 26 Press Release [IBM launches New “System z10” Mainframe], particularly the estimate that a single mainframe can handle to the workload of 1500 x86 servers, in his post [A Bit More Blegging].

It's IT Blogwatch: in which IBM launches Roadrunner, a ludicrously-fast supercomputer; and people forget what the 'S' in FLOPS stands for. Not to mention another stupid Photoshop pun... Sharon Gaudin report: [Oh, ha ha -Ed.] read more