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Supercomputing's future: Is it CPU or GPU?

Supercomputing's future: Is it CPU or GPU?

...promote x86/x86-64 as a real technology for HPC — offering better price-performance against high-end supercomputers — many high-end computing... Read more

16 June, 2010 by Andrew Jones
A close-up on Intel's Knights Ferry platform

A close-up on Intel's Knights Ferry platform

The Many Integrated Core architecture will be used in the new Knights Ferry and Knights Corner platforms, aimed at supercomputing tasks Read more

1 June, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins

Welsh HPC grid project signs £15m deal with Fujitsu

...HPC Wales has signed a £15m deal with Fujitsu to provide IT hardware... Read more

22 March, 2011 by Jack Clark

China aims for exascale computer within 10 years

...to be the first country to house an exascale high-performance computer (HPC). Europe has plans to develop an exascale supercomputer by 2019 via the... Read more

24 August, 2011 by Jack Clark

Lack of training hinders GPU adoption in HPC

...Nvidia, noted that both research and production sectors use high-performance computing (HPC) for modelling and simulation but the two sectors face different challenges in... Read more

13 May, 2011 by Liau Yun Qing

HP creates GPU server for high-performance needs

...improving graphics performance. They are also useful for cheap high-performance computing (HPC) and for emerging business needs such as cloud computing and web serving... Read more

6 October, 2010 by Jack Clark

IBM exec: China to overtake Europe in supercomputing

...year by US and German computing academics, which ranks the most powerful HPC systems across the world. The most recent rankings, published in June, saw... Read more

26 September, 2010 by Jack Clark

Wales gets £40m for supercomputing project

...by businesses and universities in the region. The High-Performance Computing Wales (HPC Wales) project will use the funding to invest in new supercomputing technology... Read more

15 July, 2010 by Jack Clark

Europe's Prace HPC grid aims for exaflop power by 2019

...comprise a grid of up to six 'Tier 0' high-performance computing (HPC) systems, spread across various member states. The project is being funded by... Read more

10 June, 2010 by David Meyer

EU to double supercomputing funding to ?1.2bn

...522m) to €1.2bn to help Europe "reverse its relative decline in HPC use and capabilities", the Commission said in a statement on Wednesday. The... Read more

16 February, 2012 by Jack Clark

UK to spend £145m on computing infrastructure

...go toward software development, wide-bandwidth networks, data storage, high-performance computing (HPC), cybersecurity, and people and skills. "Significantly improving computing infrastructure is vital to... Read more

3 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Intel pins exascale dreams to Knights Ferry

...Kirk Skaugen, Intel Skaugen said he doubts Intel's high-performance computing (HPC) competitors, such as IBM with its Power7 chip architecture, will be able... Read more

21 June, 2011 by Jack Clark

Scientist predicts digital brain by 2023

...are developing a system to allow global researchers to access both the HPC (high-performance computing) system that will underpin the simulation, and the brain... Read more

20 June, 2011 by Jack Clark

Japan takes Top500 supercomputer crown from China

...in Hamburg, is three times faster on the Linpack high-performance computing (HPC) benchmark than last November's winner, the Tianhe-1A. K Computer is... Read more

20 June, 2011 by Jack Clark

Cray taps GPUs for 50-petaflop supercomputer

...to blend dedicated GPUs and CPUs in a single high-performance computing (HPC) system. "Cray has a long history of working with accelerators in our... Read more

25 May, 2011 by Jack Clark

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

1 hour ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

3 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

6 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

7 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

7 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

9 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

10 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

13 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

14 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

14 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

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

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