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• FTC sues Intel for illegal monopoly; Nvidia and AMD rejoice

  
  Computerworld Blogs — Authority: 145
  The Federal Trade Commission has slapped Intel with a lawsuit, alleging its an anti-competitive monopoly. Will the worlds of CPUs and GPUs ever be the same? In IT Blogwatch , bloggers watch with interest. Not to mention database oddities... (INTC) (AMD) (NVDA) read more
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• Liquid cooling becomes hot as Asetek raises $8M

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 158
  Bookmark this categoryLiquid cooling used to be the domain of supercomputers and computer gaming freaks. But as graphics chips and microprocessors become more powerful and power hungry, liquid cooling may have a real future.That’s the bet of investors who have put $8 million into Asetek, a liquid cooling vendor in ...
  3 days ago

• Energy use from vacuum tube to integrated circuit and beyond

  
  Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog — Authority: 419
  I thought it would be fitting this time around, as climate change negotiations proceed in Copenhagen, to discuss an interesting study done by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Stanford University, Microsoft, and Intel. by Marcin Wichary on Flickr Many people have heard some version of “ ...
  4 days ago

• FASTRA II Supercomputer Has 13 GPUs. 13. Count’em!

  
  OhGizmo! — Authority: 712
  By David Ponce You think you got the biggest, fastest rig in town, don’t ya? Well lemme tell you, it ain’t got squat on the FASTRA II from the Vision Lab of the University of Antwerp. That’s because this baby packs a whopping 13GPUs, from “six NVIDIA GTX295 dual-GPU cards, and one GTX275 single-GPU card, ...
  4 days ago

• The Worlds Most Powerful Desktop PC-Sized Supercomputer [Supercomputers]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 881
  Six NVIDIA GTX295 dual-GPU cards and one GTX275 single-GPU card add up to a "massive 12TFLOPS of computing power," and they fit into the Fastra II s desktop computer-sized case making it smaller and more powerful than the first Fastra supercomputer . Coming out of the Vision Lab at the University of Antwerp, the ...
  4 days ago

• The Most Powerful Desktop PC-Sized Supercomputer [Supercomputers]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 881
  Six NVIDIA GTX295 dual-GPU cards and one GTX275 single-GPU card add up to a "massive 12TFLOPS of computing power," and they fit into the Fastra II s desktop computer-sized case making it smaller and more powerful than the first Fastra supercomputer . Coming out of the Vision Lab at the University of Antwerp, ...
  4 days ago

• HPC Meet Paleontology: Simulating the Gait of Hadrosaurs

  
  The Dragon's Tales — Authority: 133
  The team – from The University of Manchester, University of Oregon and Yale - set up the ‘dinosaur dressage’ with the help of Hector, the UK Research Council’s supercomputer, currently the 20th fastest super computer in the world. They found that hopping hadrosaurs were fastest but – for safety reasons - a ...
  4 days ago

• Moving from VPAC to VLSCI

  
  The Musings of Chris Samuel — Authority: 109
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Supercomputer from game console components

  
  Net Traveller — Authority: 139
  Greetings from the famous room N101 at ANU where Wayne Luk from Imperial College London is talking on "A Heterogeneous Cluster with FPGAs and GPUs". He started by apologising the talk will not be polished as the work is very new and they are just starting to get results. He then gave us a quick tourists guide to ...
  5 days ago

• 3D chips to boost eco-friendly computing power 10-fold

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  London, Dec 13 (IANS) Eco-friendly 3D microchips, being developed by a clutch of cutting-edge research labs, are likely to boost computing power 10-fold, consuming negligible energy.They are being developed jointly by IBM Research Lab, EPFL and ETH Zurich, the twin Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology.The project, ...
  6 days ago

• Building a supercomputer from game console components

  
  Net Traveller — Authority: 139
  Wayne Luk from Imperial College London will talk on "A Heterogeneous Cluster with FPGAs and GPUs" at the ANU, 14 December 2009. GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) are used to offload complex image processing from the main processor in PCs and games consoles. FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) are more flexible ...
  6 days ago

• High-Energy Linux: Linux & the Large Hadron Collider

  
  Computerworld Blogs — Authority: 145
  The worlds biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is up and running with Linux in charge. 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 ...
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• Why is Intel canceling Larrabee graphics chip?

  
  Computerworld Blogs — Authority: 145
  Intel announced that it was killing the Larrabee GPU program late last week. It was late and slow, it seems. But in IT Blogwatch , bloggers wonder if theres more to the story. Not to mention baroque anatomy... (INTC) read more
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• Intel cancels Larrabee consumer graphics chip (via postie)

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 158
  Bookmark this categoryIt looks like Intel’s bid to become a major player in consumer graphics chips has ended in disaster — for now.The world’s biggest chip maker has been working for years on Larrabee, a chip with dozens of cores for processing graphics. It was the company’s major competitive thrust at Nvidia ...
  2 weeks ago

• IBM Cat Brain Computer Debunked

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 155
  After IBM’s announcement that they had developed a neural network that exceeded the processing power of a feline cortex, Henry Markram sent several scathing e-mails and comments debunking the claim. Greg Fish asks Markham to explain what he sees wrong with IBMs claim.
  2 weeks ago

• Hailing the death cab for Cobol

  
  Computerworld Blogs — Authority: 145
  Baby Boomers are about to begin retiring en masse. So ... who will mind the mainframe? read more
  2 weeks ago

• SAP delays price increase

  
  Computerworld Blogs — Authority: 145
  In todays podcast : SAP delays price increase; IBM buys Guardium; and Nokia sues over pricefixing. read more
  2 weeks ago

• Department Of Defense Orders 2,200 PS3 Gaming Consoles For Supercomputer

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 702
  When the Department of Defense wanted to upgrade one of their supercomputers they didn’t call Intel, AMD or another specialty microprocessor maker, instead they simply ordered 2,200 PS3 gaming systems. According to BoingBoing the DoD ordered the PS3 consoles to add more power to their PS3 supercomputer, a ...
  2 weeks ago

• The morning coffee and the Playstation Supercomputer

  
  Mr. Topp and the Big Bad Blog — Authority: 126
  The United States military is huge, well-funded and uses the most technologically advanced systems on the planet. What does it run on? The Playstation 3. (by Ran Hwang ) A man in Vietnam thought it would be a good idea to dig up the body of his dead wife and bring it home … so he could keep it in his bed ...
  2 weeks ago

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