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In Texas, A Stampede of Petaflops at the TACC

In Texas, A Stampede of Petaflops at the TACC | HPC | Scoop.it
In its first days of operation, the new Stampede system at the University of Texas at Austin's Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) debuted as the world's seventh-fastest supercomputer. They are using the Intel Xeon E5 processors for compute power.
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Quantum Computer to Log Onto Quantum Internet

Quantum Computer to Log Onto Quantum Internet | HPC | Scoop.it
In recent months, scientists have made important strides toward the amazing and quirky world of quantum computing.
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Air Force project could 'transform' supercomputing

Air Force project could 'transform' supercomputing | HPC | Scoop.it
Virginia Tech team plans multidisciplinary approach to low-power computing in simulating tiny unmanned aircraft.
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Open-source 3D printed RoboHand changes one little boy's life

Open-source 3D printed RoboHand changes one little boy's life | HPC | Scoop.it
Liam is nearly 5 years old and was born with Ambiotic Band Syndrome. He has no fingers on his right hand.
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Harvard researchers fold proteins with D-Wave quantum computer

Harvard researchers fold proteins with D-Wave quantum computer | HPC | Scoop.it
Harvard researchers have teamed up with D-Wave to do some protein folding experiments on the company's quantum computer.
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Alya Red: A Computational heart

Alya Red is a project of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center for simulating a human heart. In this video we explain the scientific background of the project,...
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Titan Supercomputer “Like a Time Machine”

In this video, researchers describe how the #1 Titan supercomputer is ready to tackle the world’s biggest problems, from astrophysics to climate change.
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BP Building New Houston Supercomputing Center

BP Building New Houston Supercomputing Center | HPC | Scoop.it
British Petroleum is spending $100 million to replace its current data center with the largest supercomputer for commercial research in the world.
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Supercomputing on the XPRESS track: Sandia aims to create exascale computing operating system

(Phys.org)—In the stratosphere of high-performance supercomputing, a team led by Sandia National Laboratories is designing an operating system that can handle (http://t.co/nGccgRGL Supercomputing on...
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160 Mac Minis, One Rack

160 Mac Minis, One Rack | HPC | Scoop.it
[Steve] needed an alternative to the Xserve, since Apple stopped making it. His solution was to stick 160 Mac Minis into a rack. That’s 640 real cores, or 1280 if you count HyperThreading.
First, Steve had to tackle the shelving.
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Computer History Museum

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RT @ComputerHistory: This day in history Cray X-MP Supercomputer Begins Operation http://t.co/3GCV6btl...
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University builds cheap supercomputer with Raspberry Pi and Legos

University builds cheap supercomputer with Raspberry Pi and Legos | HPC | Scoop.it
University of Southampton team, 6-year old Lego specialist build an HPC for $4k...
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Supercomputing Charges Ahead with Stampede at TACC

Dr. Dan Stanzione, deputy director at the Texas Advanced Computing Center shares how the Stampede supercomputer will have close to 200 racks, 500,000 pounds ...
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GPUs Push Big Data's Need for Speed

GPUs Push Big Data's Need for Speed | HPC | Scoop.it
During his keynote this week at the GPU Technology Conference, NVIDIA CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang provided a few potent examples of how web-driven big data applications are pushing their real-time delivery envelope by adding GPUs into the fray.
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DTU build RPi cluster Open Source Days 2013 - via @melampus

DTU build RPi cluster Open Source Days 2013 - via @melampus | HPC | Scoop.it
A VERY cool Raspberry Pi cluster seen on #OSD13 and it is used to check HTTP traffic and build by DTU students http://t.co/ndfMv180PS

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Give your own 3D chocolate face to your sweetheart on Valentine’s Day

Give your own 3D chocolate face to your sweetheart on Valentine’s Day | HPC | Scoop.it
"FabCafe" in Shibuya, Tokyo is organizing a workshop to offer women a chance to make 3D chocolates modeled from their own face using 3D scanner and 3D printer.
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MP3 files written as DNA with storage density of 2.2 petabytes per gram

MP3 files written as DNA with storage density of 2.2 petabytes per gram | HPC | Scoop.it
Researchers used trinary to take advantage of DNA's four bases.
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All Systems Go for Highest Altitude Supercomputer - ALMA correlator turns many antennas into one giant telescope

All Systems Go for Highest Altitude Supercomputer - ALMA correlator turns many antennas into one giant telescope | HPC | Scoop.it
One of the most powerful supercomputers in the world has now been fully installed and tested at its remote, high altitude site in the Andes of northern Chile.
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America’s Titan Surpasses Sequoia as World’s Fastest Supercomputer

America’s Titan Surpasses Sequoia as World’s Fastest Supercomputer | HPC | Scoop.it
Last week, a throng of computer geeks descended on snowy Utah to show off, admire, and debate the future of the fastest computers on the planet. And of course, to find out which Boolean monster rules the roost.
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Cray will use Intel MIC, branded Xeon Phi

Cray will use Intel MIC, branded Xeon Phi | HPC | Scoop.it
Cray will use Intel MIC, branded Xeon Phi (RT @rickbmerritt: Intel gains badly needed traction in graphics as Cray puts MIC chips, now called Xeon Phi, in its Cascades systems.
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Titan Supercomputer to Enable Improved Reactors

Titan Supercomputer to Enable Improved Reactors | HPC | Scoop.it
Over at Scientific American, Nidhi Subbaraman writes that the new Titan supercomputer at ORNL can zip through simulations of a nuclear reaction in a fraction of the time it used to take.
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China's New Supercomputer Will Have Intel Inside

China's New Supercomputer Will Have Intel Inside | HPC | Scoop.it
China is planning to use 100,000 Intel Ivy Bridge-based Xeon E5 processors to power its next supercomputer, rumored to be the world's fastest.
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IBM simulates 530 billion neurons, 100 trillion synapses on supercomputer

IBM simulates 530 billion neurons, 100 trillion synapses on supercomputer | HPC | Scoop.it
A network of neurosynaptic cores derived from long-distance wiring in the monkey brain: Neuro-synaptic cores are locally clustered into brain-inspired regions, (getting closer to a brain: http://t.co/f2xliLyZ...)...
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One day of activity for the Los Angeles Metro

One weekday (from 4am to 4am) of transit activity in Los Angeles, based on the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) data made available by the Metro.
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IBM supercomputer used to simulate a typical human brain

IBM supercomputer used to simulate a typical human brain | HPC | Scoop.it
IBM researchers have used the world's most powerful supercomputer to simulate a virtual brain comparable in complexity to that of a human.
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