IBM’s Sequoia is now the world’s fastest supercomputer
June 19th, 2012 - 8:34 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, June 19 (THAINDIAN NEWS) IBM's Sequoia has overtaken the number 1 spot as the fastest supercomputer.
Fujitsu’s K Computer fell to second place on the list, which is released ... Read more...
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Short, on-chip light pulses to boost data transfer speeds on computers
November 25th, 2010 - 3:28 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 25 (ANI): University of California - San Diego electrical engineers have designed ultra compact, low power pulse compressor on a silicon chip, which will enable ultrafast data transfer within computers.This ... Read more...
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Award-winning supercomputer solves superconductor homogeneity puzzle
August 10th, 2010 - 5:24 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 10 (ANI): An award winning high-performance computing application developed by scientists has been used to examine the nanoscale inhomogeneities in superconductors that had long been noticed but left unexplained.Thomas Maier ... Read more...
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China ramping efforts to become supercomputer superpower
June 1st, 2010 - 2:14 pm ICT by ANI
London, June 1 (ANI): China is all set to become the world's supercomputing superpower- its Nebulae machine at the National Super Computer Centre in Shenzhen, was ranked second on the biannual Top ... Read more...
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What happens when bubbles collide?
June 1st, 2010 - 1:25 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, June 1 (ANI): University of Melbourne have burst the secret behind what happens when bubbles collide-a discovery that has wide-ranging implications across many industries.Bubbles hold the key to improving everything ... Read more...
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High-performance computing helps locate missing genes
April 14th, 2010 - 4:16 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, April 14 (ANI): Scientists have used high-performance computing to locate small genes that have been missed by scientists in their quest to define the microbial DNA sequences of life.Using an ephemeral ... Read more...
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An upgrade makes “Jaguar” the world’s fastest supercomputer
November 21st, 2009 - 1:13 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, November 21 (ANI): Reports indicate that an upgrade to a Cray XT5 high-performance computing system deployed by the US Department of Energy has made the "Jaguar" supercomputer the world's fastest.Located ... Read more...
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Most scientifically accurate and advanced planetarium show on display in US
August 21st, 2009 - 3:43 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, August 21 (ANI): High-performance computing systems, visualization resources, and software tools provided by the National Science Foundation TeraGrid helped make the Hayden Planetarium's new space show the most scientifically accurate ... Read more...
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Flexible high-resolution home theatre displays come closer to reality
August 21st, 2009 - 1:58 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, August 21 (ANI): You may soon get to enjoy facilities like flexible high-resolution home theatre displays, wearable health monitors, and biomedical imaging devices because scientists are working on a novel process ... Read more...
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Worlds fastest supercomputer for science revealed
November 18th, 2008 - 12:05 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, November 18 (ANI): A high-performance computing system at the Department of Energy''s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been proclaimed the worlds fastest supercomputer for science.
The Cray XT, called Jaguar, ... Read more...
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World’s fastest supercomputer does in minutes what it took months to calculate
November 18th, 2008 - 12:05 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Nov 18 (IANS) The world's fastest supercomputer called Jaguar, capable of quadrillion floating operations per second, has been housed at the Oak Ridge National Lab.The blinding speed of Jaguar can be ... Read more...
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Scientists gear up to tackle 15 million gigabytes of data
November 4th, 2008 - 4:33 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 4 (IANS) The four huge detectors of the new Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, when fully operational, are expected to generate up to a staggering 15 million gigabytes of data ... Read more...
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The Grid to handle atom smashers 15 million GB data
November 4th, 2008 - 1:11 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 4 (ANI): Computer scientists are going to use the Grid for dealing with an unprecedented volume of data to be produced by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) when it ... Read more...
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US military makes world’s fastest supercomputer
June 9th, 2008 - 9:34 pm ICT by IANS
New York, June 9 (IANS) A US military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per ... Read more...
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