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.s. Chip Manufacturing in the Age of the Ipad
Behind the fly-off-the-shelf popularity of products like Apple's iPad and iPhone are hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs—mostly overseas. Is it possible...
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Hackers Take the Kinect to New Levels
But achieving the Holy Grail—controlling a computer without touching it—proves more difficult.
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Jaguar Helps Develop Virtual Nuclear Power Reactor
The Jaguar supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is paving the way toward the development of a new generation of nuclear...
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China Breaks Ground on Futuristic Supercomputer Complex
China recently held a ground-breaking ceremony and released the designs for its new supercomputing center, which will be located in Changsha. The rendering consists...
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Ibm Chips: Let There Be Light Signals
IBM has achieved a major milestone in making the dream of silicon photonics, in which computer chips send signals of light rather than electricity, into reality...
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Leveraging Linux For Supercomputing
The Beowulf project pioneered the use of off-the-shelf, commodity computers running open source operating systems for high-performance computing. Beowulf clusters...
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War Machines: Recruiting Robots For Combat
War would be a lot safer, the Army says, if only more of it were fought by robots.
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The Birth of a .k. Tech Giant
British chip designer ARM will soon be 20 years old. Bill Thompson was there at the start.
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Top Scientist rges 'ambitious' .s. Exascale Supercomputer Plan
Peter Beckman, director of the DOE's Exascale Technology and Computing Institute, says the United States needs to make a sizable push to open up funding resources...
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Windows at 25: A Tech King with Growing Competition
When the first Windows operating system was introduced by Microsoft, Ronald Reagan was in the White House, John Hughes was introducing touching teen stereotypes...
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Georgia Tech-Led Team Wins Gordon Bell Prize for Supercomputing
A team led by George Biros, associate professor in Georgia Tech's School of Computational Science & Engineering, has won the Association for Computing Machinery's...
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Globus Online File Transfer Service Debuts
The creators of Globus Online have announced the general availability of the cloud-hosted high-performance, secure file transfer service. Globus Online eliminates...
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IBM, Intel Question Key Top500 Supercomputer Metric
Researchers at IBM and Intel are questioning the methods by which the supercomputing Top500 list is compiled. "The Top500 . . . doesn't measure about 80 percent...
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Hpc Experts Look Past Petaflop to the Exascale
At SC10, the annual supercomputing conference, high-performance computing (HPC) experts debated whether the industry will reach an exaflop by 2020, and if the achievement...
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Cell-Phone Chips to the Rescue
Data centers, under greater demand than ever, are looking to low-power chips as a way to save money, but switching won't be easy.
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Accelerator Supercomputers Dominate Newest Green500 List's Top 10
Accelerator-based supercomputers hold eight of the top 10 spots on the Green500 list. Green500 ranks the energy efficiency of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers...
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Graph500 Rating System Evaluates Nine Supercomputer Capabilities
Nine supercomputers have been tested, validated and ranked by the new "Graph500" challenge, introduced this week by an international team led by Sandia National...
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Illinois Students Build 33-Teraflop Cluster From Gpus
Students at the University of Illinois have built a supercomputer out of GPUs as part of a hands-on class. They expect the cluster to be ranked on the Green500...
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New Standard Proposed For Supercomputing
A new supercomputer rating system, Graph500, tests a supercomputer's ability to analyze large, graph-based structures that link the huge number of data points present...
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