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HIGH-PRODUCTIVITY COMPUTING

High-productivity computing (HPC) systems are used to solve complex computational problems at a rate of one trillion calculations per second. Typically, HPCs from vendors like Cray, IBM, HP, SiCortex, and Dell are used in data centers, scientific research, enterprises, and government. This topic covers the latest on the HPC industry and new design characteristics that are taking shape to accommodate larger workloads with less electricity.

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Last week at Agile 2009, I attended a great panel discussion with previous winners of the Gordon Pask Award.

Personal Supercomputers Promise Teraflops on Your Desk | Gadget Labmore

What would take 6-8 hours in a powerful desktop can be done in 20 minutes on a supercomputer -- but is still the size...

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Windows Vista was well-known for the poor adoption it saw in the business sector, even though consumers were choosing...

Rally uses agile analytics to bring new data warehouse to the cloudmore

Rally Software this week rolled out a cloud-based data warehouse as part of the new third generation of its Agile ALM...

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Don't expect magic benefits from Scrum implementation. Informed usage is required if you want to succeed.

Supercomputer niche chucks rocks at Nehalemmore

As niche supercomputer-maker SiCortex works on the next generation of its line and watches the IT marketing machine...

TG Daily - Samsung debuts 1GHz "iPhone" processormore

amsung and Intrinsity have designed a 45 nanometer (nm) ARM Cortex-A8 processor capable of delivering 2000DMIPS at 1GHz.

Measuring datacenter efficiency easier said than done | InfoWorld | Ne...more

Containing the cost of powering the data center is one of the chief priorities for many IT and facilities professionals.

Intel 'Nehalem' Xeons poised for March 31 launchmore

Chip maker Intel has been dropping hints like water balloons from the rooftops that its "Nehalem" Xeon EP...

Sighting Nehalem and Dawn in the Wild - Bits Blogmore

Mark Seager, head of advanced computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, examines one of Dell’s Nehalem-based...

SiCortex to support aircraft developmentmore

U.S. company SiCortex was selected by the military college's researchers for its high-productivity computing system as...

Energy-Saving Servers: There's More Work To Do - Newsmore

Energy Star for servers won't be a simple matter, because users will have to take account of the load on their servers...

IBM Promises World's Fastest Computer--Againmore

IBM has promised the DOE that the computer, part of its Blue Gene series and scheduled for delivery in 2011, will be...

Big Computer Brains Need Big Memory Bandwidthmore

As semiconductors try to get faster without breaking the laws of physics (not that researchers aren’t trying that, too)...

IBM's Sequoia: 20x faster than the world's fastest supercomputermore

Roadrunner? Pfff, your chart-topping 1.105 petaflops are laughable. IBM just announced its 20-freaking-petaflop Sequoia...

The Personal Cluster: Coming To A Desk Near Youmore

When the first specifications for dual-cores were released I recall talking with one of the major CPU vendors about the...

Big Hopes for New Intel Chipmore

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Need a supercomputer? This guy builds 'em himselfmore

Bruce Allen is perhaps the world's best do-it-yourselfer. When he needed a supercomputer to crunch the results of...

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