The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) plans to upgrade the performance of its two supercomputers with a roughly tenfold increase of…
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An MLB team is apparently doing in-game graph analysis
A Major League Baseball team is reportedly the proud owner of a Cray Urika graph-processing appliance that helps the team make in-game decisions by analyzing lots and lots of data. It might be a first, but it's where sports are headed.…
Read MoreWhat supercomputers and Schrodinger’s cat can teach the electronics industry
In the near term companies are eking more performance out of chips without using too much power by using co-processors taking a cue from the supercomputer industry. In the long term, though making faster and more efficient chips will take place at the subatomic scale.…
Read MoreDid webscale computing force Intel’s Cray buy?
Intel paid $140 million to buy the interconnect business of Cray, the original manufacturer of supercomputers. From here it looks like there’s little left of Cray moving forward, but the interesting bit about this deal is how it could define the next generation of servers.…
Read MoreSupercomputer vet Cray wants to turn big data into fast data
Looks like Oracle has some competition when it comes to selling big iron for big data. On Wednesday, Cray, the Seattle-based company best known for building some of the world's fastest supercomputers, announced it's getting into the big data game.…
Read MoreHow the cloud is reshaping supercomputers
In the past decade supercomputers were dressed-up versions of Intel's x86 machines, but increasingly supercomputers are borrowing innovations (and silicon in the form of ARM-based chips or DSPs) from the mobile and big data realms to add speed without guzzling too much power.…
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Perhaps hoping to put the Oracle-instigated Itanium fuss behind it, Intel yesterday revamped their high performance Xeon chip line. Big names such…
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Like clockwork, the Top500 list of supercomputers is out today and Jaguar, the Department of Energy’s climate change data cruncher (and then…
Read MoreIntroducing the World's Most Powerful Supercomputer for Climate Research
A supercomputer that will likely be able to perform around 1 million billion calculations in a second (a petaflop) will be solely dedicated to fighting climate change and used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.…
Read MoreAs Devices Converge, Chip Vendors Girding For a Fight
The computing world is undergoing a significant shift as consumers and businesses access and store more of their information in web-based applications,…
Read MoreNvidia Machine Takes a Spot on the Top Supercomputer List
For the first time ever, a supercomputer using Nvidia chips has achieved a spot on the Top 500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers released late Friday. The Nvidia-containing machine is ranked 29 and is a cluster built by NEC and Sun that uses chips from Nvidia, Intel (s INTC) and AMD.…
Read MoreNvidia to Offer Its Chips in the New Cray Desktop
After more than two years of pushing its scientific computing efforts, Nvidia’s graphics processors will be offered as an option in the…
Read MoreSupercomputing: Now Less Super, More Computing
Supercomputers these days are compute monsters. IBM's latest, the Roadrunner, packs the power of 100,000 laptops stacked 1.5 miles high, embraces a unique mix of IBM's Cell processor and ubiquitous x86 chips from AMD, and has the ability to calculate 1,000 trillion operations every second. Of course, trends in supercomputing generally trickle downstream to the rest of the computer-using population eventually. Continue Reading.…
Read MoreHP Weds Cloud and High-performance Computing
While it hasn’t yet decided to offer a cloud computing service, Hewlett-Packard today said it will combine its high-performance computing unit with…
Read MoreCray Gives Intel a Chance
Poor AMD. Cray has decided to build its next generation of supercomputers around Intel’s Xeon chips. Cray’s previous line was built around…
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