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European Exascale Project Drives Toward Next Supercomputing Milestone
The goal of the European Exascale Software Initiative (EESI) is to help effect the migration from petascale to exascale systems over the next 10 years by bringing...
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Better Benchmarking For Supercomputers
Many computer scientists say the High-Performance Linpack test is not the best performance measurement for the world's top supercomputers. The new Graph500 benchmark...
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Iit-M to Aid Research on Innovative Projects
IIT-Madras will establish an interdisciplinary center of excellence for facilitating research on embedded systems, very large scale integration design, and enabling...
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Wipro Building India's Fastest Supercomputer For Space Agency
Wipro Ltd. is building what will become India's fastest supercomputer for the Indian Space Research Organisation, giving the agency critical muscle to crunch...
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1,760 Playstation 3s Form New Supercomputer
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base recently unveiled a supercomputer, named the Condor Cluster, consisting of 1,760 Sony...
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Intel's 2nd-Gen Chip Arrives, with Hollywood in Tow
Intel is officially announcing its next-generation processor tomorrow—and Hollywood is playing a big role.
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Massive Collider Churning Out Data
This year the world's largest science experiment roared to life. Deep beneath the French-Swiss border, the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, has spent the year accelerating...
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Intel: Why a 1,000-Core Chip Is Feasible
Chipmaker Intel has been investigating the issue of scaling the number of cores in chips through its Terascale Computing Research Program, which has so far yielded...
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Smarter, Not Faster, Is the Future of Computing Research
The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology's recently released report suggests that U.S. research funds would be better spent developing effective...
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Nonlinear Systems Made Easy
Pablo Parrilo has discovered a new approach to convex optimization that creates order out of chaos in complex nonlinear systems.
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It Needs Fundamental Shift to Continue Rapid Advances in Computing
The pace of advances in information technology could slow unless the United States aggressively commits to fundamental research and development in parallel computing...
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Google Goes to the Cloud For New Idea in Pc System
In the personal-computer industry, where things change fast, one fact has been a constant for years: There are two major, mainstream operating systems for consumers...
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Ibm Xeon-Based Supercomputer to Hit Three Petaflops
IBM plans to build an Intel Xeon-based supercomputer that will reach a peak speed of three petaflops and use a hot water-cooling system, which will result in 40...
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The Shadow War
Someone is killing Iran’s nuclear scientists. But a computer worm may be the scarier threat.
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Microsoft Shares Cloud Technology with Top Australian Research Organizations
Microsoft Corp. announced partnerships with three of Australia's top research organizations as part of its Global Cloud Research Engagement Initiative. The partners...
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Military Bans Disks, Threatens Courts-Martial to Stop New Leaks
It’s too late to stop WikiLeaks from publishing thousands more classified documents, nabbed from the Pentagon’s secret network. But the U.S. military is telling...
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Supercomputing Research Opens Doors for Drug Discovery
A quicker and cheaper technique to scan molecular databases developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could put scientists on...
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Apple to Tap Intel's Graphics For Future Macbooks
Apple has decided to use Intel's upcoming Sandy Bridge processors in its MacBook line, a transition that will occur in 2011, squeezing out Nvidia's graphics processors...
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World's Fastest Computer Brings Incalculable Benefits
Using the fastest supercomputer in the world, researchers in China can significantly shortened the amount of time it takes to process data and analyze solutions...
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