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What a difference a year can make! Last year Fujitsu was focused on its K-Computer. With 88,128 traditional Sparc CPUs–each with eight cores for 705,028 total, K-Computer was declared the world’s fastest supercomputer in the 2011 Top500 Supercomputer list. In 2012, however, the K-Computer lost out to IBM’s Sequoia, which boasted more than twice as many PowerPC cores –1.5 million. Despite its high speed, the K-Computer consumed almost twice as much power per floating-point operation (825 GFlop/kWatt) compared to supercomputers based on the Xeon Phi, which are rated almost three times higher (2499 GFlop/kWatt) by the Green500 List. In addition, the ability to add 60-cores at a time with a single PCIe card drastically cuts the cost of HPCs.
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Interesting to see how the Xeon Phi is getting adopted into HPC and the types of configurations that it will enable. Click on the image or title to learn more Delete the scoop?
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There are a bunch of cloud and distributed computing blogs worth reading including:
Simon Wardley – Bits or pieces?
But the one i keep coming back to is Werner Vogels - All things distributed. Its good for insight and also for some great links to essential papers by Jim Greay that are deeply relevent to distributed computing developments.Certainly worth reading. Delete the scoop?
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With initiatives like UN Pulse looking at using big data techniques for development Larry Irving discusses ideas for using mobile to change the world at the 2012 Social Good Summit. In 1999, half of the world had either never used a phone or had to travel more than two hours to reach the nearest one. Years later, mobile devices are being used in extremely innovative ways to connect and empower people around the world. Click on the image or title to learn more. Delete the scoop?
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Good post on modeling human responses in agent based simulations. In addition to papers suggested here - there is a fair amount of game development AI that also falls into related studies that should be added to this list. Click on image or title to learn more.