The supercomputer, named PRIMEHPC FX10, will be available as of January, and its specifications are impressive.
Seymour Cray, the supercomputer genius of the 1970s, had a form of parallelism with his vector- processing computers.
The supercomputer system brings together leading-edge technologies for high performance and high reliability.
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The supercomputer work "was absolutely critical" in crafting the antibiotic, says DeGrado.
Nvidia chips are also prized by the supercomputer community because they can handle six to eight times more operations per unit of energy than an Intel chip.
Seymour Cray (nasdaq: CRAY - news - people ), the supercomputer genius of the 1970s, had a form of parallelism with his vector-processing computers.
The supercomputer will process 512 billion telescope samples per second, which ought to be more than enough to unlock a few more secrets of the cosmos.
Donmar Warehouse artistic director Josie Rourke will direct The Machine, a new play about chess player Garry Kasparov's battle with the supercomputer Deep Blue, written by Matt Charman.
Capable of performing over one billion computations per second, the G4 has strayed into the realm of the supercomputer - which means the U.S. government has banned its export.
When the supercomputer is finished, one future result could be that doctors might take swabs from the inside of the mouths of people feeling unwell and put such samples into a computer.
The supercomputer is part of The Mike Barnsley Centre for Climate Research, named in recognition of a former pro-vice chancellor and his contribution to both Swansea University and the field of environmental science.
In support of its new Titan supercomputer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has selected DataDirect Networks (DDN) to build the world's fastest storage system to power the fastest supercomputer in the world.
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To illustrate the uneven perception of China's supercomputer efforts, Mr. Qian, the veteran supercomputer researcher, holds his palms at hip level.
Today China also has the fastest trains and the fastest supercomputer in the world.
The Stampede supercomputer will be the first major rollout of these new chips, TACC scientists say.
The Nvidia supercomputer, for example, uses one-third the power of a comparable machine powered solely by x86 CPUs.
Previously code-named "Cascade, " the Cray XC30 supercomputer is the Company's most-advanced high performance computing system ever built.
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We completed the acceptance process on the Blue Waters supercomputer at the University of Illinois, but were not able to complete the upgrade to the XK7 system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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If we were to put these GPUs into servers, such as Japan's supercomputing center did with Tsubame, you end up with the 29th fastest supercomputer in the world, literally with GPUs that we installed a weekend before.
The GK110 GPU is expected to be incorporated into the new Titan supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and the Blue Waters system at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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This is the first time since June 2004 that the Japanese supercomputer "Earth Simulator" has been ranked first on the TOP500 list.
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In 2003 he heard the tale of a cadre of crack engineers who had quit Cray Research, the old supercomputer maker, to explore bringing powerful features down to the world of cheap servers.
The IBM supercomputer Watson beating humans at Jeopardy is a recent example of how they have applied research.
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And we just learned that China now has the fastest supercomputer on Earth -- that used to be us.
The Stampede supercomputer also is a monster in terms of energy consumption.
Cray Computer, an offshoot of the pioneering supercomputer company Cray Research founded by Seymour Cray in Chippewa Falls, Wis. in 1972, went bankrupt in 1995.
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The biggest supercomputer ever built handles 11 quadrillion flops (or petaflops, a 1 with 15 zeroes) and draws 13 megawatts, the juice of nine wind turbines.
The computer should be able to do at least 100 trillion operations per second (teraflops), which is about eight times faster than the fastest supercomputer around, IBM's ASCI White.
IBM's Jasinski estimates that, for searching for smallpox drugs, the system will be 30 times more powerful than the world's 500 fastest supercomputers combined--and 100 times more powerful than the fastest supercomputer ever invented.
In short order, the Sequoia supercomputer and its 1.57 million processing cores will transition to a life of top-secret analysis at the National Nuclear Security Administration, but until that day comes, researchers are currently working to ensure its seamless operation.
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