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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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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 European Industry Prepares Leading-Edge Semiconductor For Space 
Paris, France (SPX) Dec 18, 2008ESA is investing significant levels of funding in order to establish a European supply chain for fabrication of space-worthy telecommunications and radar devices made from a high performance semiconductor. The supply chain will bring together leading research institutes and industrial manufacturers working together across Europe. Once completed, the supply chain will eventually allow ... more USRA Research Institute For Advanced Computer Science Celebrates 25th Anniversary 
Columbia MD (SPX) Dec 02, 2008The Universities Space Research Association (USRA) is proud to announce the 25th anniversary of its Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS). Since its inception in June, 1983, RIACS has conducted basic and applied research in computer science in support of NASA Ames Research Center in particular and of the nation's aeronautics and space-related programs in general. ... more |
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New Discovery Could Enable Development Of Faster Computers
Riverside CA (SPX) Jul 01, 2008Physicists at UC Riverside have made an accidental discovery in the lab that has potential to change how information in computers can be transported or stored. Dependent on the "spin" of electrons, a property electrons possess that makes them behave like tiny magnets, the discovery could help in the development of spin-based semiconductor technology such as ultrahigh-speed computers. ... more NASA Develops Highest Resolution Visualization System To Date 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 26, 2008The power to visualize highly complex information in a way that's easier for the human mind to grasp is taking a giant leap forward with the advent of NASA's new hyperwall-2 system unveiled at Ames Research Center. Developed by scientists and engineers in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at Ames, the 128-screen hyperwall-2, capable of rendering one quarter billion pixel ... more New Green Supercomputer Powers Up At Purdue 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jun 11, 2008Traditional supercomputers are like huge diesel trucks: They are powerful and can carry a big load. But a new type of supercomputer installed this week at Purdue University, built by SiCortex, is like employing a fleet of thousands of bike messengers: Individually they don't carry much freight, but they use less energy and are more effective in some situations. The supercomputer is the ... more Jaguar Upgrade Brings ORNL Closer To Petascale Computing
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) May 19, 2008Upgrades to Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar supercomputer have more than doubled its performance, increasing the system's ability to deliver far-reaching advances in climate studies, energy research, and a wide range of sciences. The system recently completed acceptance testing, running applications in climate science, quantum chemistry, combustion science, materials science ... more |
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