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IBM breaks the petaflop barrier
News By connecting tens of thousands of computing nodes, they can work together simultaneously in a parallel fashion, just in the way that the brain does. Neurons are very slow, but they work in parallel to create significant computing capability.
[June 10, 2008, 11:09]
Oracle unveils first-ever hardware product
News Drives will be searched in parallel also. Ellison outlined query processing and how Oracle's embedded software will handle query processing and other functions more efficiently. Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison on Wednesday unveiled the company...
[September 25, 2008, 8:23]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Of course, that sort of peak power could only be obtained doing something highly parallel — which means something scientific or technical. This involves immense processing: what a protein can do in a microsecond can take a single computer 30 years...
[August 25, 2006, 19:20]
PlayStation 3 chip to debut in IBM desktop
News Processor cores will divide computing tasks and share information using adaptations of parallel and distributed computing methods that allow multiple computers to work on a single task, according to the statement.
[December 2, 2004, 10:45]
IBM aims to get smart about AI
News If we apply in parallel the techniques that different artificial intelligence schools have been proponents of, we will achieve a multiplicative reduction in error rates," Spector said. Automated language translation and natural language processing...
[January 20, 2003, 14:39]
Linux takes off at German aerospace firm
News Over the last three years MTU Aero Engines has built up two parallel Linux clusters which contain a total of 448 processors. Since then it has continued adding hardware to the cluster and is now running two clusters running in parallel -- one on...
[September 23, 2004, 9:55]
Sun doubles thread performance with Niagara 2
News Niagara is a bet that for lower-end servers, what matters most is how well the server handles many tasks running in parallel rather than how fast it completes an individual task. Though he didn't release any performance statistics, he said Niagara...
[August 24, 2006, 8:40]
Sun aims HPC at small organisations
News New software introduced by Sun included version 1.8 of the Lustre parallel file system, with features such as version-based recovery, interoperability with clients based on Lustre 1.6 and adaptive time-out, Sun said.
[November 19, 2008, 12:56]
Sun refreshes server lines
News The novel processor is designed for running more parallel jobs with less electrical power consumption than most processors today, which are geared to run a single task quickly. The Niagara models are geared for lower-end server tasks such as...
[April 12, 2006, 10:20]
Waiting for the wireless Internet
News Whereas 3G networks' digital data is sent over a single channel, OFDM will send data over hundreds of parallel streams -- increasing the amount of information that can be sent at a time. Other enablers include adaptive processing and smart antennas...
[July 7, 2000, 13:54]
GPU vs CPU: wrong battle, wrong war
Blog FIrst, it is exceptionally difficult to make GPUs do anything well except what they were designed to do - enormously parallel operations on very large data sets - and while this means you can build scientific and engineering supercomputers from a...
[November 27, 2008, 6:56]
Netbook platforms: VIA Nano v. Intel Atom review
Reviews On top of that, Ion can use Nvidia's CUDA parallel computing interface to perform calculations for certain non-graphics applications. To save power at the expense of speed, the Atom dispenses with out-of-order instruction processing, unlike the...
[February 10, 2009, 16:22]
Yahoo India hosts mashup event
News The winner of the Most Parallel hack, called Collaborative Browsing, was an application using a plug-in for Mozilla , Greasemonkey and JavaScript to allow two or more users to surf websites in parallel.
[October 15, 2007, 16:54]
Is supercomputing just about performance?
News As vice president of HPC at the Numerical Algorithms Group, Andrew Jones leads the company's HPC services and consulting business, providing expertise in parallel, scalable and robust software development.
[October 30, 2008, 15:49]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Said fellow points out that while it is indeed impossible to export one of IBM's ASCI parallel processing superduperputers to the Forces of Evil yet totally possible for the FoE to buy the processors separately, this won't do the FoE much good...
[August 28, 2001, 18:18]
GigaSpaces - High Performance: Higher Throughput, Less Cost
White Papers GigaSpaces eliminates the complexity of designing low latency transactional applications by handling all aspects of data management, messaging, parallel processing, and resource management in a highly distributed environment.
[January 5, 2006, 0:01]
Supercomputers
Talkback The Cray devices were vector processors which relied on the ability of the system to carry out numerous calculations in parallel but only if the problem (usually written in Fortran for array processing) was presented in the correct way such that...
[July 6, 2007, 19:13]
X marks the chip
Blog First, non-parallel chips aren't improving nearly so fast as once they did, which is why everyone's going multicore; second, everyone saw this coming, so parallel programming is now much more mainstream; third, the inventor of the Transputer...
[June 4, 2007, 18:10]
BRL-CAD
Downloads BRL-CAD includes an interactive geometry editor, parallel ray tracing support for rendering and geometric analysis, path-tracing for realistic image synthesis, network distributed framebuffer support, image and signal-processing tools.
[April 29, 2008, 8:00]
Knuth: multicore engineers 'out of ideas'
Blog Comment To some extent, we've fixed the problem at top and bottom - our applications and presentation layers are inherently parallel these days, now we've moved on from everything being a dumb terminal at the end of an RS232 line , and by the time you get...
[April 29, 2008, 15:01]
