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1 hr ago | Space Ref

NASA Showcases 'Green' Missions at SC09 Conference

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Source: Ames Research Center - Comments MOFFETT FIELD, Calif.

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Related Topix: CPU, Science / Technology, NASA, Science, Computer Science, Space, Greenbelt, MD

Sat Nov 07, 2009

WEBSPHERE Journal

Platform Computing and Microsoft Enable Hybrid Compute Environments

The combination of Platform ISF Adaptive Cluster and Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 provides HPC users an efficient and flexible infrastructure management solution that maximizes resources while lowering costs associated with running cluster environments across both Windows and Linux.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Science, Computer Science, Microsoft, Software, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing

Fri Nov 06, 2009

X-bit labs

"Gordon" Supercomputer to Use Solid-State Drives

"Gordon", "Dash" - " First Supercomputers with SSDs Inside [11/05/2009 03:21 PM] by Anton Shilov The San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego has been awarded a five-year, $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build and operate a powerful supercomputer dedicated to solving critical science and societal problems.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, UC San Diego, CPU, Computers

Thu Nov 05, 2009

XML Journal

Platform Computing Advances Cloud Computing for HPC

Platform Computing is expanding cloud computing capabilities for high performance computing with two new offerings.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Science, Computer Science, Cloud Computing, Software

Internetnews.com

nVidia x86 Rumors Flare Up Again

Andy Patrizio : An analyst report has resurrected a rumor that's repeatedly died and is reborn like a phoenix -- that GPU vendor nVidia is looking to enter the x86 market.

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Related Topix: Semiconductors, NVIDIA, Electronics, CPU

The Register

HP to throw Matrix tech beyond x64 blades

Like the rest of the IT industry, Hewlett-Packard was apparently expecting Cisco Systems and EMC to announce their Acadia joint venture and Vblock virtualized data center infrastructure on Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Hewlett Packard, Telecom, Computers, Cisco Systems, Science / Technology, Science, Computer Science

Wed Nov 04, 2009

ComputerWorld

HPC vendor pitches tools to build 'private cloud'

Much of the talk about cloud computing in data centers has been about enterprise workloads, but high-performance computing customers are getting some options as well.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Science, Computer Science, CPU, Cloud Computing, Software, Product Management

UC San Diego News

NSF Awards 20 Million to SDSC to Develop Gordon

The San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego has been awarded a five-year, $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build and operate a powerful supercomputer dedicated to solving critical science and societal problems now overwhelmed by the avalanche of data generated by the digital devices of our era.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, UC San Diego, CPU, Computers, Science, Computer Science

The INQUIRER

CPUs and GPUs conclusion

EARLIER, WHEN DISCUSSING the possible integration of CPUs and GPUs on the system level, at least for high end systems, before the chip-level "sharing the die 'til we die" CPU-GPU on-die marriage happens, we looked into the most efficient ways of executing that integration.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, CPU

Tue Nov 03, 2009

WTHR-TV Indianapolis

IU celebrates new $32M data center with tours

Bloomington - Indiana University is celebrating its new $32 million data center built to protect computers from floods, power outages and even F5 tornados.

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Related Topix: Bloomington Metro, Bloomington, IN, Computers, Science / Technology

Mon Nov 02, 2009

Pureoverclock

MAINGEAR Unleashes a Paradigm SHIFT in High Performance Computing

MAINGEAR Computers, award-winning builders of custom computers for PC gamers and enthusiasts, unveils SHIFT, the everyday supercomputer that will reshape the current landscape of high performance computing.

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Related Topix: CPU, Science / Technology, Computers, PC

TG Daily

Maingear Shifts into overdrive with hard-core gaming machine

Maingear has unveiled a personal "supercomputer" for PC gamers and enthusiasts. The Shift - which is housed in a tank-like steel skeleton - dissipates excessive heat with bottom to top airflow, aggressive liquid cooling and a 90 degree rotation of the motherboard.a The Shift also features user accessible expansion slots, eATX motherboard support, ...

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, PC

The Register

Cisco and EMC in joint venture blitz

The long rumored partnership between networking giant and server wannabe Cisco Systems, server virtualization juggernaut VMware, and storage powerhouse EMC will be announced this week, according to various reports.

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Related Topix: Telecom, Computers, Cisco Systems, Sales, Science, Computer Science, Cloud Computing, Science / Technology

Sun Nov 01, 2009

Bit-tech.net main Feed

Tilera unveils 100-core processor

The Tilera TILE-Gx processor allows up to one hundred individual cores to be addressed individually.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, CPU, Science, Computer Science

Sat Oct 31, 2009

CIO

China Claims Supercomputer Among World's Fastest

China announced its fastest supercomputer yet on Thursday in the country's latest show of its goal to become a world leader in technology.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Science / Technology, CPU, National University, Computers

The Hindu

China's fastest supercomputer

MASSIVE DEVICE: China's fastest super computer Tianhe on the NUDT campus in Changsha, Hunan Province.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Science / Technology, Computers, National University, Science, Computer Science

Science, Industry and Business

LANL Roadrunner models nonlinear physics of high-power lasers

For years scientists have struggled with the difficult physics of inertial confinement fusion.

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Related Topix: Physics, Science, Computers, Science / Technology, CPU

Fri Oct 30, 2009

Asia Pacific News .Net

China unveils its fastest supercomputer

Asia Pacific News.Net Friday 30th October, 2009 New Delhi, October 30 : China has unveiled its fastest supercomputer, which at its peak speed can do more than one quadrillion calculations per second, known as a petaflop.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, World News, China, Asia, Computers, PC,

SlashGear.com

Intel Microserver open-standard planned

Intel are readying a new standard for so-called " microservers ", based on the company's prototype targeted at low-traffic websites.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

Science Daily

Roadrunner Supercomputer Simulates Nanoscale Material Failure

Making nanodevices work will require a deep understanding of how these and other nanostructures can be engineered and fabricated as well as their resultant strengths and weaknesses.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Computers

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