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UK’s Met Office weather-predicting supercomputer considered a major pollutant
Whenever there’s something good done, there are bound to be repercussions, even if they are small. Here’s a perfect example. The Met Office in UK managed to get a hold of a fantastic super computer, capable of doing 1000 billion calculations in a second. It was made to help weather forecasters predict long time climate…
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Cray CX1 – 64 core supercomputing right at your desktop
Think of supercomputers and you tend to think of multi-million dollar machines that easily take up a football field, with miles and miles of cabling and cooling systems running beneath the floors. That’s long been generally true, but not anymore. Cray has announced that it teamed up with Microsoft and Intel to produce a desktop…
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MIT Researchers assemble 16-GPU Supercomputer – Runs Crysis at 580 FPS
MIT graduate student Nicolas Pinto and David Cox and James DiCarlo recently assembled an impressive 16-GPU ‘monster’ composed of 8x9800gx2s donated by NVIDIA. The high-throughput method they promote can also use other ubiquitous technologies like IBM’s Cell Broadband Engine processor (included in Sony’s Playstation 3) or Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing services. The team is also…
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Super comp Roadrunner processes record calculations per second
Its been assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, but this American military supercomputer Roadrunner, has achieved what most computers desire… processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second.The new machine is more than twice as fast as the previous fastest supercomputer, the IBM BlueGene/L, which is based at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory…
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Cray gearing towards Petaflop computing for University of Tennessee
The National Science Foundation Supercomputing has funded a $65 million for a next-generation computing system to be used for scientific research by The University Of Tennessee (UT) Oak Ridge National Laboratory Joint Institute for Computational Sciences. Details about the system have not been announced, however, the university said that the hardware would cost about $30…
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IBM Power575 – Supercomputer saves energy by water cooling
Computer makers have employed liquid cooling in various ways over the decades. We did cover a new computer center in Switzerland that funnels the hot air next door to warm the local swimming pool. Many liquids, and particularly water, can hold far more heat than air. Similarly, architects and building owners are experimenting more with…
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Armari super stylish supercomputer in a box
The folks over at Armari reckon that a truly über-PC should be stunningly, jaw-droppingly special, in the same way as an outlandish concept car from, say, Audi is special. It needs The makers at Armari wanted to build a custom PC so far removed from the present PC paradigm that it would be virtually unrecognizable,…
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Ranger a hit in Sun’s Constellation.
Sun Microsystems Inc. announced two new systems designed to address the extreme computation, scale and storage requirements of today’s high-performance computing (HPC) customers. The Sun Constellation System is an open computing environment that combines ultradense, high-performance compute, networking, storage, and software into an integrated “petascale” general-purpose system. Running Solaris, Linux and Microsoft Windows, the Sun…
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Iranian Scientists develop country’s most powerful supercomputer, despite ban on the export of U.S. computer equipment to the Middle Eastern nation
According to an undated posting on Amirkabir University of Technology, the Iranian scientists have managed to build the country’s most powerful supercomputer, despite ban on the export of U.S. computer equipment to the Middle Eastern nation. They claim to have used 216 microprocessors made by Advanced Micro Devices. They used Linux-cluster architecture in building the…
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Imagine a Super Computer in the Palm of your Hand
The engineers at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland have been studying the “behavior of wires which are 1,000 times thinner than human hair”, and have produced a tool which they say could be the power of a supercomputer into the palm of your hand! With the help of computers, they found that wires on…
