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• in IT
  AMD Tops Supercomputer Power Rankings
  The latest list of top supercomputers is out and the US Gov't still leads the pack
  by jaideepkhanduja / on Nov 17, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “supercomputer”

• Henry Markram Calls the IBM Cat Scale Brain Simulation a Hoax

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 625
  Henry Markram (Blue Brain Project) say IBMs claim is a HOAX. Henry is referring to the claim of achieving a cat scale brain simulation Henry Markram was interviewed by Sander Olson for Nextbigfuture in August, 2009 This is a mega public relations stunt - a clear case of scientific deception of the public. These ...
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• SGI unveils Altix UV supercomputer

  
  SlashGear — Authority: 783
  We have talked about SGI before when it unveiled the Octane III desk side supercomputer back in September. SGI is back with the unveiling of what it claims to be the world’s fastest supercomputer called the Altix UV. The machine is scalable from 32 to 2048 cores with architectural provisioning for up to ...
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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
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• IBM PowerXCell-8i processor said to be last of its kind, but Cell will live on

  
  F-Default — Authority: 542
      IBM’s Cell processor may have helped break a few records and find its way into everything from video game consoles to TVs at the same time, but it looks like things could be about to change in a fairly big way for Big Blue’s groundbreaking chip. According to Heise Online , IBM Vice President of Deep ...
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• IBM PowerXCell-8i processor said to be last of its kind, but Cell will live on

  
  Engadget — Authority: 870
  IBMs Cell processor may have helped break a few records and find its way into everything from video game consoles to TVs at the same time, but it looks like things could be about to change in a fairly big way for Big Blues groundbreaking chip. According to Heise Online , IBM Vice President of Deep Computing David ...
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• IBM Cancels Cell Processor Development

  
  remove the labels | Gadgets and Life — Authority: 436
  Before you jump to conclusions, it’s not that IBM will no longer manufacture that precious little chip that powers your Sony PlayStation 3, but the Sony, Toshiba and IBM co-developed processor will not see the previously announced 32 SPE processor ever happen now. Not by IBM at least. And previously, Toshiba ...
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• IBM’s biggest brain simulator works as good as a cat’s brain (only)

  
  Technology Info — Authority: 159
  The human brain is far too complex, the biggest brain simulator built by IBM, run by a 147,456-processor supercomputer, can only reach the level of a cat’s brain.This brain simulator was developed by IBM’s Almaden research center. It consists of 1.6 billion virtual neurons connected by 9 trillion synapses, which ...
  4 days ago

• An upgrade makes “Jaguar” the world’s fastest supercomputer

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Washington, November 21 (ANI): Reports indicate that an upgrade to a Cray XT5 high-performance computing system deployed by the US Department of Energy has made the “Jaguar” supercomputer the world’s fastest. Located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Jaguar is the scientific research community’s most powerful ...
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• German Research Computer QPACE Most Energy Efficient in the World

  
  The X-Journals — Authority: 142
  At the 2009 Supercomputing Conference in Portland, Oregon (USA), the high-performance computer QPACE (QCD Parallel Computing on the Cell) was recognized today as the most energy-efficient supercomputer in the world.
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• IBM’s Blue Gene Supercomputer Models a Cat’s Entire Brain

  
  r-echos — Authority: 141
  Using 144 terabytes of RAM, scientists simulate a cat’s cerebral cortex based on 1 billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses Cats may retain an aura of mystery about their smug selves, but that could change with scientists using a supercomputer to simulate the the feline brain. That translates into 144 terabytes of ...
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• IBM’s Blue Gene Supercomputer Models a Cat’s Entire Brain

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 135
  Using 144 terabytes of RAM, scientists simulate a cat’s cerebral cortex based on 1 billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses Cats may retain an aura of mystery about their smug selves, but that could change with scientists using a supercomputer to simulate the the feline brain. That translates into 144 terabytes of ...
  4 days ago

• Iceotope Storms Out of Stealth With Super Efficient Cooling for Servers

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  Electronics and liquids don’t mix, unless you’re Iceotope. At this week’s Supercomputing 2009 conference in Portland, Ore., the 3-year-old startup from Sheffield, UK is demonstrating a liquid-cooled server setup that has the potential to cut data center cooling costs by up to 93 percent. The firm just came out ...
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• Iceotope Storms Out of Stealth With Super Efficient Cooling for Servers

  
  Earth2Tech — Authority: 660
  Electronics and liquids don’t mix, unless you’re Iceotope . At this week’s Supercomputing 2009 conference in Portland, Ore., the 3-year-old startup from Sheffield, UK is demonstrating a liquid-cooled server setup that has the potential to cut data center cooling costs by up to 93 percent. The firm just came ...
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• Intel invests in Europe exascale computing center and Reviewing Big Numbers and Unit Prefixes

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 625
  Goal is supercomputers with 1 one million trillion (a quintillion) instructions per second [IEEE had an error with a terascale trillion instructions per second] The Exascale Computing Research Center will integrate multi petaFLOPS systems, develop advanced performance optimization techniques, and collaborate with ...
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• NNSA Supercomputers Continue To Lead Globally

  
  Nuclear Power Industry News — Authority: 512
  Three of top 10 systems on prestigious list housed at NNSA national laboratories  - By Stephen Heiser - The National Nuclear Security Administration congratulates its national laboratories and Advanced Simulation and Computing program for earning three of the top 10 spots, and four of the top fifteen, on the ...
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• EU slapped Intel with lawsuits, Intel responded with multi-million investment

  
  Desinformado.com — Authority: 441
  Commissariat à l‘Énergie Atomique, Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif, Intel Corporation and Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines have entered into an agreement to create an Exascale Computing Research Center. Part of Intel’s European research network – Intel Labs Europe – the center ...
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• Fashion Goes To Infinity And Beyond

  
  Signature9 — Authority: 148
  The fashion world has finally  blown full-throttle into the world of technology and, if supercomputer developers get their way, the fashion industry will be getting a whole lot geekier in the next few years. Developers are hoping to crack into the fashion industry with the concept of “3D web,” which could ...
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• Supercomputers Are Still Fast, but Less Super

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 912
  Increasingly, they are really large systems that rely on mainstream computing parts.
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• Supercomputers Are Still Fast, but Less Super

  
  Bits — Authority: 768
  A decade-long trend reached its inevitable conclusion this week when a supercomputer based on chips from Advanced Micro Devices became the fastest machine on the planet. The computer, called Jaguar, sits at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and can throw hundreds of thousands of processing engines at ...
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• World’s Fastest Computer is Working on Solving Climate Change

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 741
  This past Monday, the insanely powerful Jaguar XT5 supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee was named the fastest supercomputer in the world . With a speed of 1.759 petaflops (quadrillions of calculations per second), this incredibly swift machine is currently being used by the forces of good to ...
  6 days ago

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