Cray to deploy petaflop supercomputer in UK this year
Cray is building a supercomputer for the University of Edinburgh in Scotland that will deliver petaflops of performance, which could put it on a future list of top supercomputers.
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China trounces US in TOP500 supercomputer race
The supercomputing arms race is heating up again between the United States and China, as China retakes the top spot in the 41st Top500 listing of the world's most powerful supercomputers with Tianhe-2, an updated system that was able to execute 33.86 petaflops, or 33.86 thousand trillion floating point operations per second.
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China surpassing U.S. with 54.9 petaflop supercomputer
China has produced a supercomputer capable of 54.9 petaflops, more than twice the speed of any system in the U.S., according to a U.S. researcher who was in China last week and learned the details.
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Cray offers a more modest supercomputer for the enterprise
Supercomputer manufacturer Cray has expanded its portfolio of systems for the technical enterprise market.
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Indiana University dedicates biggest college-owned supercomputer
Indiana University today dedicated the fastest supercomputer owned by a university to date -- the new Big Red II system.
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Switzerland to upgrade supercomputer to improve Alps weather forecasts
The Swiss National Supercomputing Center will upgrade its supercomputer with Nvidia graphics processors to enable the system to more accurately predict the weather in the steep mountains of the Swiss Alps.
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World's most powerful big data machines charted on Graph 500
The Top500 is no longer the only ranking game in town: make way for the Graph 500, which tracks how well supercomputers handle big-data-styled workloads.
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SC2012: Top500 expects exascale computing by 2020
If the increase in supercomputer speeds continue at their current pace, we will see the first exascale machine by 2020, estimated the maintainers of the Top500 compilation of the world's fastest systems.
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Cray bumps IBM from Top500 supercomputer top spot
The U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory's newly installed Titan system, a Cray XK7, has been anointed as the world's fastest supercomputer in the newly released 40th edition of the Top500 compilation of the world's fastest supercomputers.
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Cray chases clusters with Appro acquisition
Cray on Friday agreed to acquire server maker Appro International for US$25 million in cash as it looks to strengthen its high-performance computing product portfolio.
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Cray's next supercomputer has speedy interconnect
For its next generation of supercomputers, Cray has focused on radically improving the I/O (input/output) of individual nodes. The new XC30 supercomputer will feature a new interconnect, called Aries, and a new routing topology that together promise to dramatically improve internal bandwidth.
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Tablet Accessories Tech Treasures [2011 Cool Yule Tools]
While last year may have been the year of the tablet (with the introduction/invasion of the iPad), this year certainly qualifies as the year of the tablet accessory. Whether it’s a case, a pillow, stand or speaker system, we’ve compiled a list of our favorite devices to go along with our favorite tablets:
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Cray to build supercomputer with new AMD chips
Cray Inc. is building a supercomputer for federally funded scientific research under a contract valued at $188 million that was <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218989/IBM_NCSA_abandon_petascale_supercomputer_project">originally won by IBM</a> .
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Cray to Build 20-Petaflop System
The global race for ever-faster supercomputers is getting a new entry.
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Cray building $97 million supercomputer for U.S.
The never-ending global push to build ever faster supercomputers took another step today with Cray's announcement that it was awarded a contract from U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory to build a system that could potentially deliver up to 20 petaflops of peak performance, or 20 quadrillion floating operations per second.
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