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SGI’s ‘Personal Supercomputer’ Handles 80 Cores, 1TB RAM
1:20AM Adam Frucci | SGI’s Octane II is a “personal supercomputer”, which isn’t to say it’s designed for you to play video games and check your email on. It’s just a supercomputer that garage physicists might be able to save up for. More »
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IBM Sequoia: Faster Than the Fastest 500 Supercomputers, Combined
4:40AM Mark Wilson | 20 petaflops. That’s the speed rating of IBM’s slated Sequoia supercomputer, the future world’s fastest supercomputer that promises to be faster than every system on the Top500 supercomputer list, combined. More »
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Supercomputers Corroborate Einstein’s e=mc2 After 103 Years
9:56AM Jesus Diaz | Believe it or not, but it has taken 103 years and the combined power of various of the world’s top supercomputers to prove Eintein’s biggest equation right, resolving e=mc2 at the scale of sub-atomic particles. The feat has been achieved by a team of French, German, and Hungarian physicists led by Laurent Lellouch at the Centre for Theoretical Physics in France, and has finally answered a question that has puzzled scientists for decades: The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Atom Mass! More »
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IBM Roadrunner Tops Cray as the Official World’s Fastest Supercomputer
1:45AM Mark Wilson | It’s like a geek soap opera. Just last week, Cray bragged that their updated Jaguar XT supercomputer was the world’s fastest. Now this week, IBM responds to the trash talk with a number one ranking of their Roadrunner system on the newly published Top500 supercomputing list.
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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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Worldwide LHC Computing Grid Online, Just in Time for LHC to Go Down
12:00AM Mark Wilson | Well, the LHC may be out of commission until April, but the LHC Computing Grid, otherwise known as the world’s largest computing grid, was just switched on. The system is comprised of combined computing power from 33 countries. That’s 140 computer centres crunching 15 million gigabytes of LHC data per year (or roughly six CDs/second at its peak). 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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200,000 Core Supercomputer to be Built, Still Not As Clever as HAL
11:15PM Kit Eaton | Recently green-lit to be built at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IBM’s future Blue Waters supercomputer is peta’d all over. It’ll have up to 2-petaflops processing speed, more than a petabyte of memory and a 10 petabyte disk storage system. It’ll also have more than 200,000 processor cores, and cost around US$208 million, which is even more 000s. All this power is going to be used for proper hard science like simulating the Sun’s coronal mass ejections, studying black holes, and molecular biology. Probably developing on IBM’s previous Roadrunner supercomputer power, it should be accessible nationally, at campus-level. And you can bet someone’ll program it to sing “Daisy, daisy” pretty soon after it goes online in 2011. [NetworkWorld via Slashdot] More »
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