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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.
In recent months, scientists have made important strides toward the amazing and quirky world of quantum computing.
Virginia Tech team plans multidisciplinary approach to low-power computing in simulating tiny unmanned aircraft.
Liam is nearly 5 years old and was born with Ambiotic Band Syndrome. He has no fingers on his right hand.
Harvard researchers have teamed up with D-Wave to do some protein folding experiments on the company's quantum computer.
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,...
In this video, researchers describe how the #1 Titan supercomputer is ready to tackle the world’s biggest problems, from astrophysics to climate change.
British Petroleum is spending $100 million to replace its current data center with the largest supercomputer for commercial research in the world.
(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...
[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.
University of Southampton team, 6-year old Lego specialist build an HPC for $4k...
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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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.
"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.
Researchers used trinary to take advantage of DNA's four bases.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...)...
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.
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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