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New Fastest Supercomputer Also Has The Largest, Tackiest Case Mod
6:00AM Jesus Diaz | This is Jaguar, the new King of the Petaputerpower Hill, running at 1.75 petaflops-per-second. The Cray XT5 supercomputer was behind IBM’s Roadrunnner for more than a year, until some clever scientist decided to paint a running Jaguar all over it. More »
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Cray-1: The Super Computer
6:00PM Wilson Rothman | Seymour Cray’s big super computer was crazy. It’s signals between components had to be timed by trimming long cables up to 1/16th of an inch at a time by hand and was basically interwoven with a giant refrigeration system. More »
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Cray XT Jaguar: The New World’s Fastest Supercomputer
12:20AM Mark Wilson | Pumping out a sustained 1.64 quadrillion mathematical calculations per second (1.64 petaflops) after a recent technological overhaul, the Cray XT Jaguar is now the world’s latest fastest supercomputer (huge disclaimer coming) for non-classified research. And once you see what’s under the hood, you’ll know why. More »
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Hands On Cray CX1 Windows Supercomputer: One Day, It’ll Make Crysis Cry
1:30AM Matt Buchanan | Cray’s CX1 supercomputer looks oddly petite in its weird press shot, but we checked it out in person today, and it’s actually like a small sarcophagus loaded with computer guts instead of actual guts. Unfortunately, it’s still fairly early in the getting-going phase, so they don’t have a lot of software running for it, much less anything that’ll drill your eyeballs like Crysis at 6000FPS—though I think I convinced them that a Crysis test is absolutely critical. galleryPost('craycx1', 3, ''); More »
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Cray’s First Windows-Based Supercomputer Puts a 64-Core Datacenter On Your Desk
2:00AM John Mahoney | Why should UNIX nerds (God love ‘em) have all the fun? Cray and Microsoft announced today a partnership to produce the CX1, a $US60,000 (on the top end) supercomputer that runs the forthcoming Windows HPC Server 2008–MS’s answer to the high-performance *nix server systems run by most heavy servers. So now you can crunch your lab’s genome splicing data while you play Crysis on another blade, with plenty of processing power to spare. More »
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