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Supercomputing's future: Is it CPU or GPU?

Supercomputing's future: Is it CPU or GPU?

...to x86, but we did it. GPUs are, however, very different to CPUs in terms of programming. The ecosystem for GPU-HPC is still immature... Read more

16 June, 2010 by Andrew Jones

China's homegrown chips get inspiration from Mao

...Loongson says it is designing chips it claims can take on American CPUs on price and efficiency — with a little help from Chairman Mao. Loongson... Read more

29 February, 2012 by Tom Hancock

AMD announces five Opterons for high-scale applications

...bringing the Opteron 6100 family count to 15 processors. "These new server CPUs deliver greater performance than we've ever had before," said Patrick Patla... Read more

14 February, 2011 by Jack Clark

Virtual CPUs â?? The Overprovisioning Penalty of vCPU to pCPU ratios

...a VM does lead to performance problems - specifically when dealing with Virtual CPUs. VMware refers to CPU as pCPU and vCPU. pCPU or ‘physicalâ... Read more

12 January, 2012

AMD starts selling eight-core Bulldozer desktop CPUs

...those interested in what AMD calls "mega-tasking", the FX series of CPUs went on sale on Wednesday. The top-of-the-range eight-core... Read more

13 October, 2011
A Comparative Study on Performance Benefits of Multi-Core <endeca_term>CPUs</endeca_term> Using OpenMP

A Comparative Study on Performance Benefits of Multi-Core CPUs Using OpenMP

...from programs has become the key focus of interest on multi-core CPUs. There are many techniques and programming models such as MPI, CUDA and... Read more

1 January, 2012
Optimization Strategy of Top-Down Join Enumeration on Modern Multi-Core <endeca_term>CPUs</endeca_term>

Optimization Strategy of Top-Down Join Enumeration on Modern Multi-Core CPUs

Most contemporary database systems query optimizers exploit System-R's bottom-up dynamic programming method (DP) to find... Read more

1 October, 2011
Benchmarks: high-end Android smartphones

Benchmarks: high-end Android smartphones

...tablet markets. Qualcomm is also working on faster processors, with two new CPUs the — QSD8272 and QSD8672 — set to appear in the fourth quarter of... Read more

15 September, 2010 by Christoph H Hochstätter

Parallel computing takes a step forward

...parallelism going on? You could fairly argue that, obviously, with multi-core CPUs and GPUs now standard fare on desktops and in servers, the answer... Read more

2 February, 2012

Europe taps Nvidia for ARM-based supercomputer

...a consortium of European technology companies, has chosen Nvidia's Tegra 3 CPUs and Cuda-capable Tesla GPUs for a pilot research system, Nvidia said... Read more

14 November, 2011 by Jack Clark

Cray taps GPUs for 50-petaflop supercomputer

...Cray has married GPUs and CPUs to create the XK6 high-performance computer, which it says is capable... Read more

25 May, 2011 by Jack Clark

China to test own CPU in supercomputer this year

China will install CPUs developed by government-backed research institutions into a test supercomputer by the... Read more

7 March, 2011
Sandy Bridge: Intel's next-generation CPU

Sandy Bridge: Intel's next-generation CPU

...Bridge, is expected by the end of 2012. Intel's Xeon server CPUs will be based on Sandy Bridge in the future, but the change... Read more

23 September, 2010 by Joachim Kaufmann

Latest Linux kernel debuts with Google technology

...device and routing them to a CPU from a list of target CPUs. RFS refines this process by using the data attached to the packet... Read more

3 August, 2010 by Jack Clark
ECC2K-130 on NVIDIA GPUs

ECC2K-130 on NVIDIA GPUs

A major cryptanalytic computation is currently underway on multiple platforms, including standard CPUs, FPGAs, PlayStations and GPUs, to break the Certicom ECC2K-130 challenge. GPUs... Read more

2 January, 2012

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I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

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It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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itsajob

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Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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UnderINK

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Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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