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  Open Source Spotlight - Yabi: Bringing drag-and-drop to supercomputers

  Supercomputers are powerful tools for scientists. They are also very expensive, so wasted time can mean a lot of wasted resources. But making the most efficient use of them is not the easiest proposition in the world; it's not just a case of clicking a button to analyse a protein. However, fitting out the world of supercomputers with a user-friendly, web-based interface is the focus of an open source project based at Western Australia's Murdoch University.

  By Rohan Pearce | 27 April, 2012 09:50

  Tags: high performance computing (HPC), open source, supercomputers, supercomputing

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  Intel plans 'superchip' for high-performance computing

  Intel is investing in the development of a "superchip" for high-performance computing systems that the company hopes will raise its supercomputing profile.

  By Agam Shah | 31 March, 2012 03:36

  Tags: Components, hardware systems, High performance, Intel, processors, supercomputers

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  US lab aims for fastest supercomputer with Titan

  A government research lab in Tennessee will deploy a new supercomputer later this year that could put the U.S. back in contention for the top spot on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers.

  By Agam Shah | 01 March, 2012 11:13

  Tags: Advanced Micro Devices, Components, hardware systems, High performance, nvidia, processors, supercomputers

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  Cray courts the big-data market

  Supercomputer company Cray has created a new division that will sell big-data systems, the company has announced. The division will market its offerings to large enterprises, which will be a new kind of client for the company.

  By Joab Jackson | 10 February, 2012 11:16

  Tags: applications, Cray, data management, data mining, data protection, hardware systems, High performance, software, supercomputers

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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

  Tags: Components, games, Graphics boards, hardware systems, High performance, nvidia, processors, supercomputers

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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

  Tags: government, hardware, hardware systems, High performance, Mainframes and Supercomputers, Regulation, supercomputers

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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

  Tags: Components, hardware systems, High performance, Intel, processors, supercomputers

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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

  Tags: amazon.com, Amazon Web Services, cloud computing, Clusters, hardware systems, High performance, Infrastructure services, internet, supercomputers

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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

  Tags: business issues, Fujitsu, hardware systems, High performance, supercomputers, Whamcloud

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  Top500 list passes another milestone: 10 petaflops

  Japan's K Computer has retained its pole position on the Top500 list of fastest supercomputers and become the first machine on the list to achieve performance of more than 10 petaflops.

  By James Niccolai | 15 November, 2011 01:06

  Tags: Fujitsu, hardware systems, High performance, IBM, supercomputers

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  China's newest supercomputer uses homegrown chips

  China has built its first supercomputer based entirely on homegrown microprocessors, a major step in breaking the country's reliance on Western technology for high-performance computing.

  By IDG News Service staff | 31 October, 2011 15:19

  Tags: China National Supercomputer Center, hardware systems, High performance, supercomputers

• IBM simulates 4.5% of the human brain; Skynet is next

  It's pretty well known at this point that computers are quickly catching up with humanity as far as brain power is concerned. Storage-wise, we've been long surpassed by machines, and powerfully fast computers can run circles around the human brain in solving complex equations. On the other hand, humanity wins in the brain's sheer computational power and energy efficiency.

  By Jason Kennedy | 27 October, 2011 11:57

  Tags: hardware systems, High performance, IBM, supercomputers, Tech industry

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  Adapteva aims 64-core chip at tablets, smartphones

  Smartphones and tablets are demanding more computing power, and chip company Adapteva hopes to bring server-type performance to the devices with a chip it is announcing on Monday.

  By Agam Shah | 03 October, 2011 15:09

  Tags: Adapteva, Components, hardware systems, High performance, processors, supercomputers, tablets

• Climate science chewing up supercomputing resources

  An "infinite" demand for Australia’s supercomputing resources could threaten the quality of climate change science if more high performance computing isn’t found, a leading academic in the field has warned.

  By Tim Lohman | 05 September, 2011 15:00

  Tags: climate change, supercomputers, supercomputing

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  IBM, NCSA abandon petascale supercomputer project

  Citing unforeseen complexities and greater-than-anticipated costs, IBM and the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) have abandoned plans to build a petaflop-speed supercomputer, the two organizations said Monday.

  By Joab Jackson | 09 August, 2011 06:47

  Tags: hardware systems, High performance, IBM, NCSA, supercomputers