Kalam to launch hi-tech computing facility in Shillong ...New Kerala: 0 views since Saturday, January 3, 2009 at 12:05 AMShillong, Jan 2 : Former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is set to formally inaugurate the state-of-the-art PARAM Sheersh, a supercomputing facility for bio-informatics and computational biology, at the Northeastern Hill University (NEHU) in Meghalaya Sunday.
Kalam to launch hi-tech computing facility in Shillong ...Calcutta News: 0 views since Friday, January 2, 2009 at 06:16 PMFormer president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is set to formally inaugurate the state-of-the-art PARAM Sheersh, a supercomputing facility for bio-informatics and computational biology, at the Northeastern Hill University (NEHU) in Meghalaya Sunday.
It's a Parallel Universe ...Dr. Dobb's Journal: 2 views since Wednesday, December 31, 2008 at 08:27 AMIn an effort to move forward, Intel dusts off old supercomputing technology
IBM's Fran Allen Bridged The Digital Gap ...Muzi: 3 views since Monday, December 29, 2008 at 02:38 AMWhen IBM (IBM) recruited Fran Allen on a college campus, she planned to work only long enough to pay off her student loans. So much for that plan. She stayed at Big Blue 45 years, during which she was one of her era's top computer scientists.
The Army's brain lives in Seattle ...ZDNet: 3 views since Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 02:57 PMThe title of this Seattle Weekly article is so good that I'm using it for this post. In fact, the newspaper revisits the different contracts that Cray Inc. has signed with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) in 2008. It says that with this $30 million commitment, Cray Inc. is helping the DoD to 'test its newest bulletproof vests, gauge the accuracy of modern missiles, and even forecast the ...
Two National Labs Win ACM Gordon Bell Prizes for High-Performance Computing...INO News: 1 views since Thursday, December 11, 2008 at 02:00 PMNEW YORK, Dec. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) presented the 2008 ACM Gordon Bell Prizes to teams of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), also a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) facility, for outstanding achievements in high-performance computing.
- Background on New Supercomputer System ...Japan Corporate News: 4 views since Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 12:17 AMTokyo, Dec 10, 2008 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) today announced that it has received an order from Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, known as Riken, for a new supercomputer system with a peak theoretical performance of 108 teraflops (*1), approximately 9 times the performance of the existing system.
IBM drops Power7 drain in 'Blue Waters' ...The Register: 0 views since Monday, December 8, 2008 at 04:11 PMSuper efficiency A month ago, IBM and the University of Illinois broke ground for the data center that will eventually house the Power7-based "Blue Waters" massively parallel supercomputer. The data center, it turns out, is as tricky to design as the processor and server that will be humming along inside it.?
UPDATE: Microsoft on course to Moneyville at WARP10 ...TG Daily: 4 views since Friday, December 5, 2008 at 01:08 PM Opinion - Earlier this week, Microsoft announced its new WARP10 DirectX extension (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd285359.aspx) which enables raster operations to be carried out on the CPU when no GPU is available. This will become part of the standard Windows 7 platform. This latest software extension seems like a notable step backward when considering how parallel compute hardware ...
Microsoft on course to Moneyville at WARP10 ...TG Daily: 6 views since Friday, December 5, 2008 at 12:36 PM Opinion - Earlier this week, Microsoft announced its new WARP10 DirectX extension (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd285359.aspx) which enables raster operations to be carried out on the CPU when no GPU is available. This will become part of the standard Windows 7 platform. This latest software extension seems like a notable step backward when considering how parallel compute hardware ...
Cell supers rule the Green 500 HPC rankings ...The Register: 5 views since Tuesday, December 2, 2008 at 12:04 PMJust don't ask what the price would be for a petaflops Back in November, at the annual Supercomputing event that was held in Austin, Texas this time around, a bunch of supercomputing researchers released the semi-annual Top 500 rankings of the fastest supercomputers in the world. Now, another set of nerds has added power metrics to the list and done a sort on how efficiently the supers ...
Windows Ekes Out a Presence in Supercomputing ...Grid Computing Planet: 3 views since Tuesday, December 2, 2008 at 10:13 AMThe bi-annual release of the Top 500 supercomputer list is an opportunity for a flurry of press releases as every company crows about its bragging rights: HP (NYSE: HPQ) had the most machines on the list, IBM (NYSE: IBM) held most of the top spots, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) chips were in almost 400 of the machines and AMD (NYSE: AMD) had the top two spots.
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HPC Systems Could Save the Economy ...PC World: 7 views since Friday, November 28, 2008 at 05:01 PMUniversities, state officials push to broaden corporate access to high-performance computing (HPC) systems.
IBM supercomputers rated most energy efficient ...Linux World Australia: 6 views since Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 12:38 AMSupercomputing Green 500 List has found that the top 20 most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world are built on IBM high-performance computing technology.
IBM supercomputers rated most energy efficient ...Linux World Australia: 3 views since Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 12:29 AMSupercomputing Green 500 List has found that the top 20 most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world are built on IBM high-performance computing technology.
IBM supercomputers rated most energy efficient ...Linux World Australia: 6 views since Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 12:28 AMSupercomputing Green 500 List has found that the top 20 most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world are built on IBM high-performance computing technology.