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US honours IT inventors
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology people
Category: Shakers & Breakers - People
2009-10-07 18:01:37
The US National Medal of Technology and Innovation has been presented to IBM and to PostScript inventors John Warnock and Charles Geschke. The medals were presented by President Barack Obama at a White House ceremony.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology people
Category: Shakers & Breakers - People
2009-10-07 18:01:37
The US National Medal of Technology and Innovation has been presented to IBM and to PostScript inventors John Warnock and Charles Geschke. The medals were presented by President Barack Obama at a White House ceremony.
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IBM tops latest Green500 supercomputer list
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2009-07-14 03:14:50
IBM has shamed its competitors, ranking by far the most environmentally friendly supercomputer maker. Eighteen of the top 20 systems on the Green500 list were made by IBM. The Green500 ranks supercomputers according to the number of floating-point operations per second they can perform for each watt of power consumed.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2009-07-14 03:14:50
IBM has shamed its competitors, ranking by far the most environmentally friendly supercomputer maker. Eighteen of the top 20 systems on the Green500 list were made by IBM. The Green500 ranks supercomputers according to the number of floating-point operations per second they can perform for each watt of power consumed.
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Southern hemisphere's largest HPCs coming to Australia
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2009-03-18 20:02:26
Australian weather forecasters are set to get a supercomputer 12 times as powerful as their existing system. More than 2500 Nehalem-based Sun Blades will be installed in Canberra and Melbourne.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2009-03-18 20:02:26
Australian weather forecasters are set to get a supercomputer 12 times as powerful as their existing system. More than 2500 Nehalem-based Sun Blades will be installed in Canberra and Melbourne.
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Intel Inside 379 of fastest 500 computers on planet
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2008-11-17 07:05:33
The 32nd list of the top 500 supercomputers in the world, based on performance, has been published and Intel is inside an astonishing 379 of them! So, just how fast is the top ten?
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2008-11-17 07:05:33
The 32nd list of the top 500 supercomputers in the world, based on performance, has been published and Intel is inside an astonishing 379 of them! So, just how fast is the top ten?
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Windows HPC Server 2008 goes RTM
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2008-09-23 02:40:11
Windows HPC Server 2008 is the latest member of Microsoft's operating systems family to go into production. HPC - high performance computing - is aimed at customers with major number-crunching tasks.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2008-09-23 02:40:11
Windows HPC Server 2008 is the latest member of Microsoft's operating systems family to go into production. HPC - high performance computing - is aimed at customers with major number-crunching tasks.
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IBM dominates Green500 supercomputer list
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Sustainability
Category: Green IT
2008-07-24 18:55:26
IBM has smashed its competitors in the latest Green500 list of the most energy-efficient supercomputers, which shows that performance and running costs need not be diametrically opposed. The latest list shows that other supercomputer vendors are struggling to compete with IBM in the bang per Watt stakes.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Sustainability
Category: Green IT
2008-07-24 18:55:26
IBM has smashed its competitors in the latest Green500 list of the most energy-efficient supercomputers, which shows that performance and running costs need not be diametrically opposed. The latest list shows that other supercomputer vendors are struggling to compete with IBM in the bang per Watt stakes.
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Microsoft scrapes into top 500 supercomputer list, but IBM rules supreme
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-06-18 19:49:19
IBM has obliterated the competition in the supercomputing stakes with the top 10 of the top 500 supercomputers in the world, but Microsoft has surprisingly scraped in at number 23 with its Windows HPC Server system. While Microsoft is an unlucky 13 numbers away from the top 10, does the wow start now?
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-06-18 19:49:19
IBM has obliterated the competition in the supercomputing stakes with the top 10 of the top 500 supercomputers in the world, but Microsoft has surprisingly scraped in at number 23 with its Windows HPC Server system. While Microsoft is an unlucky 13 numbers away from the top 10, does the wow start now?
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IBM's Roadrunner sets new supercomputer record
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Vendors
2008-06-10 22:29:31
A hybrid supercomputer built by IBM for the US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration more than doubles the speed of Blue Gene, previously the world's fastest. And it does so with the aid of the processor used in the Sony PlayStation 3.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Vendors
2008-06-10 22:29:31
A hybrid supercomputer built by IBM for the US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration more than doubles the speed of Blue Gene, previously the world's fastest. And it does so with the aid of the processor used in the Sony PlayStation 3.
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NASA’s Pleiades Project to speed up exploration of universe
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-05-10 09:09:54
NASA announced on May 7, 2008 an agreement between itself, Intel Corporation, and SGI to increase the space agency’s computational capabilities into the exclusive group of organizations running petaflops supercomputers.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-05-10 09:09:54
NASA announced on May 7, 2008 an agreement between itself, Intel Corporation, and SGI to increase the space agency’s computational capabilities into the exclusive group of organizations running petaflops supercomputers.
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Intel scores supercomputer gig with Cray
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals & Wheels - Contracts
2008-04-28 16:20:25
Cray - the company once practically synonymous with supercomputers - is hitching up with Intel.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals & Wheels - Contracts
2008-04-28 16:20:25
Cray - the company once practically synonymous with supercomputers - is hitching up with Intel.
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Yahoo!, Tata subsidiary team for cloud research
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-03-25 00:31:24
Yahoo! and Computational Research Laboratories (CRL, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons) are joining forces to support cloud computing research.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-03-25 00:31:24
Yahoo! and Computational Research Laboratories (CRL, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons) are joining forces to support cloud computing research.
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IBM opto-electronic breakthrough may shrink supercomputers
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-12-06 23:37:10
The idea of replacing some of the pathways within computers and other digital devices has been around for some time. Such an arrangement could reduce energy consumption (and therefore waste heat) while dramatically increasing the available bandwidth. A new development by IBM researchers may have brought such products closer.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-12-06 23:37:10
The idea of replacing some of the pathways within computers and other digital devices has been around for some time. Such an arrangement could reduce energy consumption (and therefore waste heat) while dramatically increasing the available bandwidth. A new development by IBM researchers may have brought such products closer.
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Blue Gene is greenest supercomputer
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Sustainability
Category: Green IT
2007-11-21 23:45:24
The Green500 list reranks the well-known Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers according to the number of floating-point operations delivered per watt, and IBM Blue Gene systems take nine of the top ten spots.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Sustainability
Category: Green IT
2007-11-21 23:45:24
The Green500 list reranks the well-known Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers according to the number of floating-point operations delivered per watt, and IBM Blue Gene systems take nine of the top ten spots.
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Yahoo offers researchers supercomputer time
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Open Source
2007-11-12 22:58:48
Yahoo will provide academic researchers with a 4000 processor supercomputer as a testbed for research into Internet-scale systems software.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Open Source
2007-11-12 22:58:48
Yahoo will provide academic researchers with a 4000 processor supercomputer as a testbed for research into Internet-scale systems software.
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Folding@home sets Guinness record thanks to PS3
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2007-10-31 17:23:58
Guinness World Records has recognised Folding@home as the world's most powerful distributed computing network.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2007-10-31 17:23:58
Guinness World Records has recognised Folding@home as the world's most powerful distributed computing network.
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Hey, hand me a supercomputer
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2007-10-22 07:54:25
Scottish, German, and Italian engineers and scientists are studying how nano-sized wires could one day bring the size of a supercomputer so it could be held in one’s hand. The key to reducing the size of computers is learning how wires within microchips behave at tiny diameters.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2007-10-22 07:54:25
Scottish, German, and Italian engineers and scientists are studying how nano-sized wires could one day bring the size of a supercomputer so it could be held in one’s hand. The key to reducing the size of computers is learning how wires within microchips behave at tiny diameters.
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Tilera seeks processor performance crown with 64-cores
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-08-20 06:49:59
Not content with dual or quad core technology, Tilera’s newly available TILE64 Processor, equipped with 64-cores and a mesh-like interconnect that eliminates bottlenecks, seeks to usurp the processor performance crown.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-08-20 06:49:59
Not content with dual or quad core technology, Tilera’s newly available TILE64 Processor, equipped with 64-cores and a mesh-like interconnect that eliminates bottlenecks, seeks to usurp the processor performance crown.
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Illinois to get world’s fastest supercomputer at one petaflops
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-08-11 10:46:35
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will house the $208 million Blue Water supercomputer to be built by IBM for operations beginning in 2011.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-08-11 10:46:35
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will house the $208 million Blue Water supercomputer to be built by IBM for operations beginning in 2011.
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NASA $597M supercomputing contract goes to CSC
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-07-25 12:10:26
Computer Sciences Corporation, headquartered in El Segundo, California, has been awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration a ten-year supercomputer support contract that could reach up to $597 million.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-07-25 12:10:26
Computer Sciences Corporation, headquartered in El Segundo, California, has been awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration a ten-year supercomputer support contract that could reach up to $597 million.
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Chinook computer checkers champ now king forever
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2007-07-19 17:32:38
It took up to 200 computers working simultaneously since 1989, but computer scientists at the University of Alberta have solved the game of draughts, known in the US as checkers, meaning that humans no longer have any possibility of beating the program called Chinook.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2007-07-19 17:32:38
It took up to 200 computers working simultaneously since 1989, but computer scientists at the University of Alberta have solved the game of draughts, known in the US as checkers, meaning that humans no longer have any possibility of beating the program called Chinook.
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