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Water acts as catalyst in explosives

The most abundant material on Earth exhibits some unusual chemical properties when placed under extreme conditions.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 20, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 2




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Predictive simulation successes on Dawn supercomputer

(PhysOrg.com) -- The 500-teraFLOPS Advanced Simulation and Computing program's Sequoia Initial Delivery System (Dawn), an IBM machine of the same lineage as BlueGene/L, has immediately proved itself useful ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

MIT physicist to describe strange world of quarks, gluons

One of the great theoretical challenges facing physicists is understanding how the tiniest elementary particles give rise to most of the mass in the visible universe.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 17, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (22) | comments 0

NCAR adds resources to TeraGrid

Researchers who use the TeraGrid, the nation’s most comprehensive and advanced infrastructure for open scientific research, can now leverage the computing resources of a powerful, 2048-processor BlueGene/L ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 10, 2007 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

IBM Triples Performance of World's Fastest Supercomputer

IBM’s newest supercomputer, Blue Gene/P, is nearly three times as fast as its predecessor and is designed to fit in smaller spaces and use less electricity than other commercially available models.

Electronics / Hardware

created Jun 27, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 0

Engineer Creates First Academic Playstation 3 Computing Cluster

The Sony Playstation 3, Xbox and Nintendo Wii have captivated a generation of computer gamers with bold graphics and rapid-fire animation. But these high-tech toys can do a lot more than just play games. At ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 09, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (140) | comments 1

Red Storm upgrade lifts Sandia supercomputer to 2nd in world, but 1st in scalability, say researchers

A $15 million upgrade to Sandia’s Red Storm computer has increased its peak speed from 41.5 to 124.4 teraflops in a computing terrain in which a single teraflop was a big deal only 6 years ago.

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 15, 2006 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (39) | comments 0

Supercomputer Sets New Performance Record

The world’s fastest supercomputer, BlueGene/L, set a new performance standard on June 22, 2006. Housed at Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Jun 23, 2006 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (46) | comments 0

Breakthrough 3D simulations win prestigious 2005 Gordon Bell Prize

A team of scientists led by physicist Fred Streitz has been awarded the 2005 Gordon Bell Prize for pioneering materials science simulations conducted on the world’s fastest supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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created Dec 01, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Blue Gene supercomputer installed at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory

One of the world's fastest supercomputers was officially inaugurated at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory (ZRL). The so-called BlueGene/L system has the same performance as the computer ranked 21st on the current list of the ...

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created Aug 11, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

IBM unveils new supercomputer

IBM announced today the launch of the world’s most powerful privately-owned supercomputer, the Watson Blue Gene system, nicknamed BGW, installed at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. With a p ...

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