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The industrial robot revolution

One small step for man, a giant leap for robot-kind.

By Sandra Gittlen | 20 February, 2012 22:25

Tags: Configuration / maintenance, Data Center, hardware systems, health care, industry verticals, manufacturing, NASA, robots

Slideshow: Verb IT first with HP Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD)

Sydney-based Verb IT is the first company in the Asia Pacific region to provision an HP Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD) next-generation data centre in a shipping container. The new Verb DC site where the POD is located is a standard industrial warehouse in Wyong on the NSW Central Coast (one hour north of Sydney). Verb DC is schedueld to go live in September after a 14-week project, including the POD delivery time. In what is being painted as a big win for the Central Coast IT industry, the new POD will provide computing services to local businesses and the world.

By Rodney Gedda | 20 August, 2010 08:57

Tags: data centres, green IT, HP, HP POD, Portable Modular Data Centre (PMDC), Triforce Services, Verb IT

Georgia Tech supercomputer powered by graphics processors

Georgia Tech researchers building an experimental new supercomputer say graphics processors may help pave the way toward future exascale machines, which would be 1,000 times faster than today's most powerful supercomputers.

By Jon Brodkin | 19 November, 2009 04:37

Tags: supercomputers

Inside Tsubame - the Nvidia GPU supercomputer

When you enter the computer room on the second floor of Tokyo Institute of Technology's computer building, you're not immediately struck by the size of Japan's second-fastest supercomputer. You can't see the Tsubame computer for the industrial air conditioning units that are standing in your way, but this in itself is telling. With more than 30,000 processing cores buzzing away, the machine consumes a megawatt of power and needs to be kept cool.

By Martyn Williams | 10 December, 2008 12:20

Tags: nvidia, supercomputers, data centre top pick

10 Microsoft research projects

Innovation is not just about cool new products. In technology, the best ideas require a) really smart people and b) lots of funding. For the past 33 years, Microsoft has had both in spades.

By John Brandon | 02 December, 2008 10:09

Tags: microsoft research

NASA research finds way into IT, consumer products

Aware of a history of heart disease in his family, then-50-year-old Gary F. Thompson saw his doctor for a checkup before he ran a Los Angeles marathon in the mid-1990s.

By Sharon Gaudin | 18 November, 2008 09:02

Tags: chips, NASA, popular science, robotics, software

NASA research sends IT, consumer projects into orbit

Aware that his family had a history of heart disease, then-50-year-old Gary F. Thompson saw his doctor before deciding to run a Los Angeles marathon in the mid-1990s.

By Sharon Gaudin | 13 November, 2008 09:29

Tags: NASA

Multicore: New chips mean new challenges for developers

With the advent of multicore processors such as the Intel Core Duo, which is now commonplace in PCs, software developers must deal with a new wrinkle -- getting software to be processed across multiple cores -- in order to ensure the maximum performance from their software. But this is much easier said than done, with developers having to tackle issues with concurrency and potential performance bottlenecks. Already, 71 percent of organizations are developing multithreaded applications for multicore hardware, according to a recent IDC survey sponsored by tool vendor Coverity.

By Paul Krill | 05 November, 2008 08:09

Tags: chips, cpu, programming

Supercomputer race: Tricky to boost system speed

Every June and November, with fanfare lacking only in actual drum rolls and trumpet blasts, a new list of the world's fastest supercomputers is revealed. Vendors brag, and the media reach for analogies such as "It would take a patient person with a handheld calculator x number of years (think millennia) to do what this hunk of hardware can spit out in one second."

By Gary Anthes | 23 September, 2008 09:49

Tags: supercomputers

Supercomputer helps with cancer research

The Ontario Cancer Institute in Canada has deployed what it's calling Canada's fastest research supercomputer to help discover more effective cancer treatments.

Top 500 supercomputers: Welcome to the petaflop generation

Welcome to the petaflop generation. That was the message as the new most powerful supercomputer in the world IBM's $100,000 million Roadrunner system installed at the US Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory was officially named the most powerful and energy efficient supercomputer in the world.

The world’s fastest supercomputer

IBM, Los Alamos smash petaflop barrier.