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supercomputer gets a memory boost with 380 petabytes of magnetic tape
25 May 2012, 12:26 pm
Remember the Cray XK6 at the University of Illinois that drives the National Science Foundation's Blue Waters project? Well, it looks like it's getting a little memory upgrade, sorta. We're not talking a slick new SSD here, or even a sweet NAS , all that computational power requires nothing less than... tape. Okay, so it's actually a full storage infrastructure, and some of it -- 25 petabytes no ...
Appro Announces Xtreme-X™ supercomputer Powered by the New Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-4600 Product Family
15 May 2012, 9:46 pm
Appro Announces Xtreme-X™
supercomputer Powered by the New Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-4600 Product Family Appro (http://www.appro.com), a leading provider of supercomputing solutions, announces today the deployment of the Appro Xtreme-X™
supercomputer with four socket configurations based on the new Intel® Xeon® processor E5-4600 product family for Kyoto University in Japan. The Appro Xtreme-X ...
supercomputer could be fully functional late 2012
7 May 2012, 10:24 pm
A project five years in the making finally began early this semester with the installation of Blue Waters’ Early Science System. But the path the project took turned out to be not as clear-cut as it appeared in the beginning.
New supercomputer Giveaway for Top Science Ideas
30 April 2012, 11:10 pm
Huge
supercomputers can do everything from simulating the universe's Big Bang to modeling how the human brain works — if universities or labs can afford the expensive room-size computing clusters costing tens of millions of dollars. A new contest offers researchers the chance to win a
supercomputer core by explaining what they would do with the computing power equivalent to 20,000 laptops.
Can IBM's supercomputer Cure Cancer?
30 April 2012, 5:21 pm
WellPoint and Cedars-Sinai are putting Big Blue's
supercomputer Watson to the test in pilots targeting cancer treatment and improved EMRs.
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More supercomputer application talents needed - People's Daily Online
14 May 2012, 4:21 am
China should strengthen its super Computer application-oriented talent pool, said Qian Depei, a team leader of the national 863 program. The
supercomputer research has become the strategic high ground for each country to win technology competition, Qian ...