Supercomputing

HenryTo · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 6:42 pm Post subject: Supercomputing

Cray's supercomputer at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) upgraded (doubled) its performance to 119 teraflops - putting it number 2 on the world's Top 500 list of supercomputers:

http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1370386.html

HenryTo · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 3:54 am Post subject:

NNSA takes initial delivery of the 20 petaflop Sequoia system. Final assembly scheduled to be in September.

http://www.gsnmagazine.com/node/25429?c=federal_agencies_legislative

HenryTo · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 12:07 am Post subject:

Africa gets back into the Top 500 with the latest upgrade.

http://www.southafrica.info/about/science/supercomputer-030112.htm

rffrydr · Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 7:50 pm Post subject:

....For those of us less "numerate" here's a basic idea of what it's all for:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/take-it-to-the-limit/

HenryTo · Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 11:45 pm Post subject:

AMZN leasing out supercomputing time.

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/helloworld/27453/

HenryTo · Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 2:03 am Post subject:

Russia building 10 petaflop supercomputer.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/110583-russia-building-10-petaflop-supercomputer-joins-china-in-search-of-less-us-tech-dependence

HenryTo · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:38 am Post subject:

Meet Gordon: the world's first SSD-based supercomputer.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Flash-Gordon-Supercomputer-SDSC-Intel-710-super-nodes,14243.html

HenryTo · Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 2:22 am Post subject:

Cray finally makes it in Japan:

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4231024/Cray-to-provide-supercomputer-to-Kyoto-University

HenryTo · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 1:56 am Post subject:

A teraflop on a chip, courtesy of Intel:

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/11/supercomputer-han/

HenryTo · Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 11:25 pm Post subject:

The Japanese builds a monster--surpassing the 10-petaflop barrier for the first time.

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/11/japanese_megamachine/

HenryTo · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 11:49 pm Post subject:

Cray to aid the U.S. Department of Energy with its "Jaguar" upgrade to 10 to 20 petaflops--expected to be completed in early 2013:

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/emerging-tech/2011/10/12/cray-leads-us-thrust-for-supercomputer-supremacy-40094167/?tag=mantle_skin;content

HenryTo · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 10:21 am Post subject:

Coming to a supercomputing system near you--the 50-core Intel chip:

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/09/22/tech/innovation/texas-supercomputer/

HenryTo · Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 10:07 am Post subject:

Note that this system will rank in the top 10 of the world's fastest supercomputers:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/14/appro_tsukuba_xtreme_super/

HenryTo · Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 10:44 pm Post subject:

Intel creates supercomputing division focusing on government-driven research:

http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2011/08/30/intel-forms-subsidiary-to-tap-public-sector-dollars/

HenryTo · Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 12:37 am Post subject:

New computer program--along with tons of computing power--makings materials design much more efficient:

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38405/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-08-23

HenryTo · Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 1:41 am Post subject:

IBM demonstrates new chip that attempts to mimic the neural network:

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38367/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-08-18