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NASA Supercomputer Ranks Among World's Fastest Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 19, 2009 
After a recent upgrade, NASA's premiere supercomputer located at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., has garnered the sixth spot on the Top500 list of the world's most powerful computers. The announcement was made at the International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC09) in Portland, Ore.
The Pleiades supercomputer is an SGI Altix ICE ... read moreCystorm Unleashes 28 Trillion Calculations Per Second 
Ames IO (SPX) Aug 25, 2009Srinivas Aluru recently stepped between the two rows of six tall metal racks, opened up the silver doors and showed off the 3,200 computer processor cores that power Cystorm, Iowa State University's second supercomputer. And there's a lot of raw power in those racks. Cystorm, a Sun Microsystems machine, boasts a peak performance of 28.16 trillion calculations per second. That's five ... more
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NASA to launch solar observatory
Europe battles declining influence Prius: world's most popular hybrid Russia wants to charge more for rides to space: report Russia, China agree on nuclear construction cost: report China-born aerospace engineer gets 15 years for spying Mexico climate summit set for early December in Cancun Climate change impact of soil underestimated: study US government plans new climate service US shuttle Endeavour reaches orbit 
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Japan's NEC to exit supercomputer project
Tokyo (AFP) May 14, 2009Japan's ailing IT giant NEC Corp. said Thursday that it would withdraw from a government-backed supercomputer project as part of its efforts to cut costs during the economic slump. NEC has been involved in the development of a next-generation supercomputer along with the Riken institute and fellow electronics makers Hitachi Ltd and Fujitsu Ltd. since 2007. The project aims to design and ... more More Chip Cores Can Mean Slower Supercomputing 
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Jan 20, 2009The worldwide attempt to increase the speed of supercomputers merely by increasing the number of processor cores on individual chips unexpectedly worsens performance for many complex applications, Sandia simulations have found. A Sandia team simulated key algorithms for deriving knowledge from large data sets. The simulations show a significant increase in speed going from two to four mult ... more |
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