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Oak Ridge 'Jaguar' supercomputer is World's fastest

Oak Ridge 'Jaguar' supercomputer is World's fastest

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 2

An upgrade to a Cray XT5 high-performance computing system deployed by the Department of Energy has made the "Jaguar" supercomputer the world's fastest. Located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Jaguar is ...





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Microsoft, Taiwan to set up cloud computing centre

Technology / Business

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US software giant Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday signed an agreement with Taiwan to jointly establish a research centre here for the development of Internet computing technology.


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IBM makes Big Blue cloud

Technology / Software

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (8) | comments 9

IBM on Monday announced it has created the world's largest business computing "cloud" capable of holding an amount of digital data on a par with 250 billion iTunes songs.


Microsoft is raising cloud computing concerns

Microsoft raises cloud computing concerns

Technology / Software

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 1.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Packaged software powerhouse Microsoft on Thursday released a paper outlining privacy concerns businesses should consider prior to leaping into the computing "cloud."


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'Cloud' computing market 14 bln dollars by 2014: Gartner

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created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Industry tracker Gartner forecast on Monday that revenue from Internet-based "cloud computing" will top 14 billion dollars annually by the end of 2013.


New NVIDIA Tesla GPUs Reduce Cost Of Supercomputing By A Factor Of 10

New NVIDIA Tesla GPUs Reduce Cost Of Supercomputing By A Factor Of 10

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

NVIDIA Corporation today unveiled the Tesla 20-series of parallel processors for the high performance computing (HPC) market, based on its new generation CUDA processor architecture, codenamed "Fermi".


Microsoft's cloud computing system is growing up

Technology / Software

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (9) | comments 2

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. leads its industry in part because a vast army of outside computer programmers design software that only runs on its Windows operating system. Now, the company is fighting to keep those programmers ...


UCSB physicists move one step closer to quantum computing

UCSB physicists move one step closer to quantum computing

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have made an important advance in electrically controlling quantum states of electrons, a step that could help in the development of quantum computing. The work is published ...


FutureGrid to provide platform for experimental computation

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the next few months, a consortium that includes the University of Chicago will establish FutureGrid, a collaborative next-generation system for experimental scientific supercomputing.


One tonne 'Baby' goes mobile

One tonne 'Baby' goes mobile

Technology / Software

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It took a one-tonne computer the size of a room to run a simple mathematics program in 1948 - but now computer scientists have made it available on your mobile.


Petascale computing tools could provide deeper insight into genomic evolution

Petascale computing tools could provide deeper insight into genomic evolution

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created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Technological advances in high-throughput DNA sequencing have opened up the possibility of determining how living things are related by analyzing the ways in which their genes have been rearranged on chromosomes. ...



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