supercomputer processors
Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab
Photo This photo story is a peek into one of the world's great supercomputer labs housed inside the US's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a leading research institution and the site of the reactor in which plutonium for the first atomic bombs was refined... [14 Jul 2008]
RIKEN Sees Excellent Results With Linux High Performance Computing Clusters Using Intel Xeon Processors
White Paper In 2001, they completed a cluster composed of 64 machines with Intel Pentium 4 processors running at 1.70 GHz, and achieved performance equivalent to a supercomputer with 32 processors in CFD. The RIKEN Advanced Center for Computing and... [03 Jul 2008]
IBM smashes the supercomputing petaflop
News Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop - 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second - twice as fast as the world's previous fastest computer, Blue Gene. [11 Jun 2008]
Photos: Supercomputers signal when storms are a-brewing
Photo The current identical IBM supercomputer 1600 clusters, one of which is pictured in the foreground, are made up of 5,000 processors and capable of running at 38 teraflops, with a sustained output of four teraflops. [06 Jun 2008]
New Oil-Technology Becomes Real With Dell Cluster
White Paper To be able to perform the powerful electromagnetic signal calculations, EMGS chose to buy a new supercomputer from Dell - The SBL High Performance Computing Cluster, containing 530 Blade-type servers, each with two Intel Xeon processors and a... [31 May 2008]
Met Office forecasts blue skies for green IT
News The processors within the NEC supercomputer work in parallel, allowing it to simultaneously link and process climate data from 4km parcels of the UK, giving it the ability to forecast weather at a county level. [09 May 2008]
Grid Computing Takes Off in the Enterprise
White Paper A secondary, but perhaps equally important, difference is that in both a supercomputer and a cluster, all the computing resources are under the control of a single organization and are usually dedicated to a single task. [10 Apr 2008]
Sun breaks through supercomputer haze with Constellation
News After a slight delay a new, somewhat unusual, supercomputer from Sun Microsystems will get formally unveiled next week. We have been somewhat absent in the supercomputer market in the last few years. IBM has dominated the supercomputer rankings... [14 Feb 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Supercomputing
Cheat Sheet As of November 2007, the fastest machine in the supercomputer Top500 ranking was Blue Gene/L - which is a cluster of 65,536 computers, each with two processors that can process two data streams concurrently. [20 Nov 2007]
Beep beep! Move over for IBM's super Roadrunner
News IBM had the fastest computer on the Top500 Supercomputer Sites list, which was released yesterday at the SC07 conference in Reno, US. The top machine, the Blue Gene/L supercomputer - located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - is capable of... [13 Nov 2007]
Supercomputer helps cut drug research time
Case Study The supercomputer has been in place for around four months and uses 24 IBM System x3655 servers with AMD dual core processors. Scientists at the facility are using an IBM supercomputer - developed and maintained by high performance computing... [18 Sep 2007]
Using SAS in a Distributed Computing Environment
White Paper By aggregating these resources into a "Virtual supercomputer", the LSF software can be used in conjunction with SAS software to provide various benefits to users of the computing environment. Benefits include: quicker time to solution by enabling... [08 May 2007]
Novell Case Study: Leibniz Computing Centre
White Paper The Leibniz Rechenzentrum (Leibniz Computing Centre) operates a supercomputer for scientific research, based on the SGI Altix 4700 server platform and running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. The system holds world records for its 17TB globally... [13 Apr 2007]
Comparing Linux Clusters for the Community Climate System Model
White Paper Specifically, the authors examine the execution time and scalability of the Community Atmospheric Model (CAM) and the Parallel Ocean Program (POP) on Linux clusters with Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors, using Dolphin, Myrinet, and Infiniband... [01 Apr 2007]
Intel develops teraflop-chip
News Intel has developed a teraflop chip with supercomputer-like performance but has "no plans" to bring the 80-core chip to market. The super-chip - about the size of a fingernail - has the ability to deliver trillions of calculations per second... [12 Feb 2007]
Keep updated for stories matching supercomputer processors via RSS
