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• A Skeptical Reaction To IBMs Cat Brain Simulation Claims

  
  Slashdot — Authority: 160
  kreyszig writes "The recent story of a cat brain simulation from IBM had me wondering if this was really possible as described. Now a senior researcher in the same field has publicly denounced IBMs claims." More optimisticaly, dontmakemethink points out an "astounding article about new Neurogrid computer chips which ...
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• Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Introduces SAFE-Net

  
  TECHburgher :: Putting some sizzle in the Pittsburgh technology sector. — Authority: 132
  Do Internet passwords protect personal information from unwanted intrusion? How can you be sure if someone on-line is who they say they are? Does anti-virus software really protect your hard-drive? To help parents, educators, students and individuals with these questions and many others associated with wide usage of ...
  3 days ago

• 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: 871
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• IBM PowerXCell-8i processor said to be last of its kind, but Cell will live on

  
  MainGadget — Authority: 164
  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 Computing ...
  3 days ago

• Big Data on Grids or on Clouds?

  
  High Scalability — Authority: 419
  Now that we have a new computing paradigm, Cloud Computing, how can Clouds help our data? Replace our internal data vaults as we hoped Grids would? Are Grids dead now that we have Clouds? Despite all the promising developments in the Grid and Cloud computing space, and the avalanche of publications and talks on this ...
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• Australias CSIRO To Launch CPU-GPU Supercomputer

  
  Slashdot — Authority: 160
  bennyboy64 contributes this excerpt from CRN Australia: "The CSIRO will this week launch a new supercomputer which uses a cluster of GPUs [pictures] to gain a processing capacity that competes with supercomputers over twice its size. The supercomputer is one of the worlds first to combine traditional CPUs with the ...
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• Microsoft Broadens Supercomputing Reach with New Offerings – HPCwire

  
  OnlyDedicatedServers.com — Authority: 146
  Microsoft Broadens Supercomputing Reach with New Offerings – HPCwire Betas of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 and distributed Microsoft Office Excel 2010 for the cluster available for download, delivering increased performance and productivity. PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 16 — Today at Supercomputing 2009, Microsoft Corp ...
  4 days ago

• Dogear-Nation – Episode 130 – What’s Happening

  
  Dogear Nation — Authority: 108
  Hey, Hey, Hey, What’s Happening? Raj, Rerun, and Dwayne are all back this episode for some good old fashion fun. After meeting up at our favorite lunch time place, the 3D Internet, we venture over to a strange and wonderful tech-no-tronic world full of scalability and youtube. Ultimately Dwayne asks, What’s ...
  4 days ago

• CONVERGENCE is 100% in Portland

  
  Blogs@Intel — Authority: 123
  All the buzz about energy and climate makes for an interesting backdrop to the SuperComputing ‘09 conference that has converged on soggy Portland this week. Globally, according to Gartner, information and communications technologies are responsible for ~2% of global CO2 emissions and HPC (High Performance ...
  6 days ago

• Brown, IBM Switch On Supercomputer

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 703
  IT , supercomputing , Universities Wade Roush wrote: A new IBM supercomputer opened at Brown University’s Center for Computation and Visualization in Providence, RI, today is 50 times faster than Brown’s next best machine and is the most powerful computer in Rhode Island, according to an announcement ...
  6 days ago

• memePDX 013: Ignite Portland 7, Back Fence PDX, Supercomputing 2009, ccSync, Tim O’Reilly, Wikipedia, and Obama has never tweeted

  
  Silicon Florist — Authority: 428
  Well, well, well. It’s another Thursday. Kinda. And that means it’s time for another episode of memePDX . Lucky number 13, in fact. So what did we cover? Well, a whole bunch of stuff. But we’ve got one favor to ask. Just pretend it’s Thursday, pre- Ignite Portland and pre- Back Fence PDX . Okay? Okay. This ...
  1 week ago

• More than powerful! German research computer QPACE is the most e...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  (Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres) At the 2009 Supercomputing Conference in Portland, Ore., the high-performance computer QPACE (QCD Parallel Computing on the Cell) was recognized today as the most energy-efficient supercomputer in the world. QPACE is at the head of the Green500 list, which provides a ...
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• SuperComputing at Oak Ridge

  
  TTC Shelbyville - Technical Blog — Authority: 140
  Oak Ridge -Jaguar, the Cray XT5(TM) system installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the most powerful supercomputer available to open science today. Based on AMDs award-winning Opteron processor technology, the Cray XT5 provides a better value for customers, business and the environment. In addition to Crays ...
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• The state of the supercomputer superpower - Linux

  
  451 CAOS Theory — Authority: 539
  There’s a new Top500 Supercomputers list out, and it still looks good for Linux. As we’ve seen in the past, Linux has maintained its fast-risen dominance of the list in the latest round, now claiming a role in all of the top 10 systems and more than 90% of the world’s 500 fastest, most powerful ...
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• Views of Fernland on ScienceSim

  
  Fashion Research Institute's Shengri La — Authority: 108
  We were honored recently when we were asked by the team at Intel Labs to develop 16 landscaped and terraformed regions for use in Aaron Duffey’s Fernland regions, which were recently seen as part of Intel CTO Justin Rattner’s keynote at Supercomputing 09.  The Fernland regions include a dozen outer regions ...
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• First Programmable Quantum Processor For Quantum Computer Tested At NIST

  
  The Short Names — Authority: 145
  Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated the first “universal” programmable quantum information processor able to run any program allowed by quantum mechanics—the rules governing the submicroscopic world—using two quantum bits (qubits) of information. The ...
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• IBM makes supercomputer significantly smarter than cat

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 759
  An interdisciplinary team of researchers at IBM have presented at paper at the SC09 supercomputing conference describing a milestone in cognitive computing: the groups massively parallel cortical simulator, C2, now has the ability to simulate a brain with about 4.5 percent the cerebral cortex capacity of a human ...
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• GE Fanuc GRA111 3U VPX Graphics Board

  
  Embedded Star — Authority: 139
  GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms rolled out the OpenVPX-compatible GRA111 high performance graphics board. The GRA111 features NVIDIA’s new GT 240 GPU (graphics processing unit). It is the first rugged implementation of a CUDA-capable GPU. The GRA111 is the first member of GE Fanuc’s CUDA-enabled products family for ...
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• Portland: IBM Brain Computer closer to reality

  
  INNOVATION. International Journal by 2thinknow. — Authority: 131
  IBM Moves Closer to Creating Computer Based on Insights From the Brain Scientists perform cat-scale cortical simulations and map the human brain in effort to build advanced chip technology Download image Download image PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Today at SC 09, the ...
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