Stories about: Cray

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IBM aims to replace copper chip interconnects with light 04 March, 2010 19:08

IBM researchers are a step closer to developing chips that use pulses of light instead of electrical signals to carry information between them.
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Sandia tests supercomputer virtualization 27 January, 2010 05:01

The U.S. Energy Department's Sandia National Laboratories is investigating the possibility of using virtualization to allow its researchers to make better use of its behemoth Red Storm supercomputer. Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico are also participating in the project.
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Scientists, IT Community Await Exascale Computers 07 December, 2009 22:04

The race is on to develop a new generation of far more powerful supercomputers that could help solve some of the world's most vexing problems.
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IBM cat brain simulation dismissed as 'hoax' by rival scientist 25 November, 2009 06:47

IBM's claim that it has designed the first brain simulation to exceed the scale of a cat's cortex is being dismissed as "a hoax and a PR stunt" by a rival scientist.
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Most Powerful Supercomputer in the World Powered by the Six-Core AMD Opteron Processor 23 November, 2009 15:10
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3D Web will save high-performance computing industry, Intel CTO says 18 November, 2009 09:32

Three-dimensional Web technologies will save the high-performance computing industry from its current state of financial stagnation, Intel CTO Justin Rattner predicted at the SC09 supercomputing conference in Portland, Ore. Tuesday.
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Japan may put brakes on fastest-supercomputer project 17 November, 2009 14:28

An ambitious plan by Japan to build the most powerful computer in the world stands on the brink of collapse this week after a government panel recommended funding for the project be virtually eliminated.
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Australia's supercomputer ranking slipping 17 November, 2009 12:02

Only one Australian supercomputer has made it onto a list of the Top 500 announced at the SC09 forum in US this week.
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Supercomputers with 100 million cores coming by 2018 16 November, 2009 23:19

There is a race to make supercomputers as powerful as possible to solve some of the world's most important problems, including climate change, the need for ultra-long-life batteries for cars, operating fusion reactors with plasma that reaches 150 million degrees Celsius and creating bio-fuels from weeds and not corn.
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Two rival supercomputers duke it out for top spot 16 November, 2009 15:08

A Cray supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has regained the title of the world's most powerful supercomputer, overtaking the installation that was ranked at the top in June, while China entered the Top 10 with a hybrid Intel-AMD system.
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Nvidia says its new Fermi GPU will run supercomputers 01 October, 2009 10:51

Nvidia showed off a new GPU architecture on Wednesday that it hopes will allow it to move beyond gaming to play a greater role in the supercomputing market.