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Nvidia: Gaming systems to reach 'tens of teraflops' by 2019
Graphics processor maker Nvidia expects gaming systems will reach a performance of "tens of teraflops" by the end of the decade, and be capable of displaying real-time visuals as good as the pre-rendered cut scenes found in games today, according to company CEO Jen-Hsun Huang.
By Michael Kan | 14 December, 2011 21:36
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U.S. HPC Lead in Danger
The SC11 supercomputing conference in Seattle last month saw an almost obsessive focus on the development of an exascale computing system -- one that would be roughly 1,000 times more powerful than any existing system -- before the end of the decade .
By Patrick Thibodeau | 06 December, 2011 02:14
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Intel pushes 50-core chip, mulls exascale computing
Intel is drumming up support for its latest 50-core Knights Corner and Xeon E5 server chips, which are key elements in the company's plans to scale performance while reducing power consumption moving toward an exascale supercomputer by 2018.
By Agam Shah | 16 November, 2011 07:36
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Amazon Web Services adds supercomputing service to its cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) wants to attract more high-performance computing users to its cloud and has launched a public beta of Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large, its most powerful cloud service yet.
By Mikael Ricknäs | 16 November, 2011 02:42
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Fujitsu to team with Whamcloud in Lustre development
Fujitsu said Tuesday it will work with Whamcloud to develop new features for the open-source Lustre file system aimed at high-performance computing.
By Jay Alabaster | 15 November, 2011 16:15
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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
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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
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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
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