Supercomputing

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• A Data Center in a Silo

  
  UNIX Administratosphere — Authority: 120
  The CLUMEQ project is designing a supercomputer, and has several sites already built. One of these, a site in Quebec, was built in an old silo that used to contain a van de Graaf generator. An article in the McGill Reporter from several years ago described the supercomputer installation at Montreal. The new ...
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• recordings from my recent panels

  
  Kevin Goldsmith — Authority: 99
  He is the panel on Flash Games from MAX 2009 in Los Angeles: and here is the panel titled "Preparing the world for ubiquitous Parallelism" at the SC09 conference in Portland Youtube link
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• Kaspersky Speeds Antivirus Scans By a Factor of 360!

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 571
  Now that’s progress! Imagine those hour-long scans of your terabyte hard drive being cut to six minutes! That’s the kind of change everyone can get behind. Unfortunately, it takes CUDA technology, and an nVidia video card, so that will leave out many. But it is a really good reason to get that upper line nVidia ...
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• Electric Sheep artificial life screensaver goes super hi-rez

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 866
  Scott Draves sez, "The Electric Sheep makes art collaboratively with 60,000 computers and people all over the internet. Its based on a free screensaver that anyone can download and run. As it runs you may vote on designs you like, and the favorites survive to reproduce with a family resemblance, hence the flock ...
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• FASTRA II Puts 13 GPUs In a Desktop Supercomputer

  
  Slashdot — Authority: 159
  An anonymous reader writes "Last year tomography researchers of the ASTRA group at the University of Antwerp developed a desktop supercomputer with four NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics cards. The performance of the FASTRA GPGPU system was amazing; it was slightly faster than the universitys 512-core supercomputer and ...
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• Moving from VPAC to VLSCI

  
  The Musings of Chris Samuel — Authority: 112
  After almost six and a half years working at VPAC it’s time to move on, in January I’ll be taking up the position of Senior Systems Administrator in the University of Melbourne for the Victorian Life Sciences Computational Initiative (VLSCI) . For those who’ve not come across the VLSCI it describes itself ...
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• Google Trains Quantum Supercomputer Search Engine With Car Pictures [Car Culture]

  
  Jalopnik — Authority: 759
  Googles fooling around with quantum supercomputers for faster, next-gen searches and starting off by training one to hunt through huge galleries to automagically identify pictures with cars in them. Might make hunting for that perfect MGA much easier. [ NewScientist ]
  2 weeks ago

• Minnesotas Enormous Apples Computer

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  How do you like them apples? The University of Minnesota built a supercomputer with money it made from licensing fruit.
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• Minnesotas Enormous Apples Computer

  
  Bits — Authority: 781
  The University of Minnesota has what you might call a giant apples computer. Last month, the school declared that it had built the world’s 67th-fastest supercomputer with the help of Hewlett-Packard. This system, which will handle tough scientific jobs, was paid for in part by selling licenses to the Honeycrisp ...
  2 weeks ago

• IBM developing 10 petaflop supercomputer, Power7 to ship next ye...

  
  Hobbies Fun & entertainment - fun-entertainment.marc8.com — Authority: 165
  The last we heard, IBM was hard at work on its Power7 processor . read more
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• NIH wants you to use “the World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer”

  
  Macromolecular Modeling Blog — Authority: 106
  The NIH recently announced a proposal solicitation for use of the Blue Waters petascale computing system.They will be giving a videocast on December 17th and of course molecular modeling is at the top of the list of priorities:“Because of the considerable NIGMS investment in protein folding and prediction of protein ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chasing the Future: spoil sports of the prediction game #5 — External Perturbations

  
  Lifeboat News: The Blog — Authority: 91
  Ever have a day when everything went wrong? You predicted you would have a normal day, but your alarm clock didn’t ring. Already running late, you couldn’t find your briefcase or backpack. Staggering out the door, your car won’t start. Later, you find out you missed a surprise meeting or maybe a quiz. ...
  3 weeks ago

• US Air Force Upgrading Playstation 3 Linux Cluster

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 139
  …The US AirForce has revealed plans to purchase up to 2,200 PlayStation 3 games machines as part of a supercomputing project running on an in-house Linux distribution.According to reports, the Air Force plans to use the devices to expand an existing supercomputing project based on PS3 hardware. The machines use ...
  3 weeks ago

• Two Storage Trends From SuperComputing 2009

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  The SuperComputing Conference/Exhibition is always a great conference for learning about storage trends in the HPC world. This year the alert attendee could spot two emerging trends: smaller companies developing innovative storage solutions and the rise of flash storage units.
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• US Air Force Upgrading Playstation 3 Linux Cluster

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 131
  … The US AirForce has revealed plans to purchase up to 2,200 PlayStation 3 games machines as part of a supercomputing project running on an in-house Linux distribution. According to reports, the Air Force plans to use the devices to expand an existing supercomputing project based on PS3 hardware. The machines use ...
  3 weeks ago

• World’s 5 fastest computers

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  London, December 1 (ANI): The latest ranking of the Top500 project has made a list of the world’s fastest computers.According to a report in New Scientist, the chart is based on the maximum rate at which a computer can crunch numbers using what are called floating point operations. November’s list features the ...
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• Four short links: 30 November 2009

  
  O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — Authority: 628
  Paywall Performance for News -- the National Business Review (NBR) in New Zealand went to a paywall in mid-July, and Foo Camper Lance Wiggs says their visitor numbers reveal a grim picture. As a commenter says, of course, visitor numbers go down but NBR makes money directly from the visitors that stay. Im curious to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Department of Defense Buys 2,200 PS3s to Upgrade Supercomputer [Military]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 462
      Apparently the Department of Defense believes that PS3s are a better value when it comes to supercomputers than IBM products specifically designed for the purpose. More here: Department of Defense Buys 2,200 PS3s to Upgrade Supercomputer [Military]
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• Department of Defense Buys 2,200 PS3s to Upgrade Supercomputer [Military]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 884
  Apparently the Department of Defense believes that PS3s are a better value when it comes to supercomputers than IBM products specifically designed for the purpose. Granted recent price drops probably didnt hurt in justifying a 2,200 console order either. This isnt the first time that the DoD is using PS3 consoles ...
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• HP Superdome and Green Computing

  
  UNIX Administratosphere — Authority: 120
  The HP Superdome is designed with a much different basis than most of its competition – and indeed, many computers. The design principles behind the HP Superdome lead to a lesser impact on the environment, and thus are a "greener" choice for heavy computing. Why? The HP Superdome is designed in such a way that ...
  3 weeks ago

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