IBM Goes Retro To Bridge The Supercomputing Divide
News With a technology called Virtual Vector Architecture, or ViVA, the 16 processor cores of a scalar server such as IBM's Power5-based p5-570 can be yoked together to act like a single vector processor. Trying to hook multiple scalar processors into a...
[October 26, 2004, 11:50]
How To Get A Supercomputer For Free
News We will learn a lot, the scientists will learn about our vector processor, and at the end of the three months they can go to their funding bodies if they decide they want to keep it. In the vector processor used by NEC's SX-6i, a calculation can be...
[February 24, 2003, 16:32]
Accelerating AMD
News So the example I'd give you is in the high-performance tactical computing area, where people like Cray and others would like to do vector floating-point units. This chip is really aimed at running a specific workload like vector floating-point or...
[January 4, 2006, 16:55]
US Urged To Take Supercomputing Beyond Clusters
News IBM is adapting its conventional processors so they can be yoked together into a virtual vector processor. One technology the government needs, vector supercomputing, is in danger of extinction, the report says.
[November 15, 2004, 7:45]
IBM Breeds PowerPC Chip From Server DNA
News Moreover, the new PowerPC will have a vector-processing unit with more than 160 specialized vector instructions, the Microprocessor Forum site said. IBM is brewing a new, more formidable desktop PowerPC chip for desktop computers using technology...
[August 9, 2002, 9:03]
NEC Updates Vector Supercomputer Line
News NEC has updated its vector supercomputer line, introducing the SX-8R on Tuesday. Vector computers, also sold by Cray, are faster at processing some types of data than mainstream "scalar" machines that dominate conventional business computing.
[October 18, 2006, 13:00]
RIKEN Super Combined Cluster (RSCC) System
White Papers Off late, Linux cluster systems have been replacing conventional vector processors in the area of high-performance computing. A typical Linux cluster system consists of high-performance commodity CPUs such as the Intel Xeon processor and commodity...
[February 29, 2008, 23:00]
Image Pre-Processing On The DNA VQG4/VQ750
White Papers This is a multi-processor platform based on the Power PC, and supported by an optimized version of the Vector Signal and Image Processing Library (VSIPL), originally defined under DARPA funding. Computational demands of real-time image processing...
[April 22, 2004, 0:00]
Celframe Office Vista 2007
Downloads Celframe Studio (Adobe Photoshop '.psd')- Photo editing & vector drawing software for Photoshop users. Celframe Write (MS Word '.doc')--word processor with tables, frames and grammar checker. Celframe Office is a Microsoft and Adobe Photoshop...
[January 21, 2008, 10:46]
IBM E326m Performance For HPC
White Papers The analysis includes memory bandwidth and latency, floating-point vector performance, performance of the SPEC CPU2000 speed and rate benchmarks, and both uni- and bidirectional traffic over the PCI-Express I/O slot using a high-speed InfiniBand...
[April 26, 2007, 0:00]
Performance Of The AMD Opteron LS21 For IBM BladeCenter
White Papers The analysis includes memory bandwidth and latency using Stream and a proprietary benchmark, floating-point vector performance using High Performance Linpack (HPL) and performance of the SPEC CPU2000 speed and rate benchmarks.
[April 21, 2007, 0:00]
Power Mac G5 Proves Popular
News In particular, version 10.2.7 of Mac OS X has math and vector libraries that are optimised for the 64-bit chip, as well as the ability to address more than 4 gigabytes of physical memory, breaking through a limitation of 32-bit chips.
[August 19, 2003, 11:25]
News Burst: Compaq Launches Supercomputer
News The most powerful of its AlphaServer products so far, it features up to 128 AlphaServer SMP building blocks, each having around the same computing power of an 8 processor Cray C90 vector supercomputer.
[November 18, 1999, 11:06]
'Supercomputer On A Chip' Promised By Cell Processor
News These are vector processors capable of running multiple instructions simultaneously, and are tightly coupled to on-chip memory: there's also a 5.6 Gbps bus to external devices. IBM, Sony and Toshiba will reveal details on the new Cell processor...
[February 7, 2005, 15:50]
China Wants Place On Supercomputer Charts
News This machine uses 5,120 vector processors, special chips that execute computational operations at high speed with a single instruction. China plans to create the world's third most powerful supercomputer, which will also be among the first such...
[July 25, 2003, 9:31]
Last Big Push For 'Classic Mac' OS
News Also on tap is vDSP 1.0, a set of digital signal processing functions, both scalar and vector, which could be used to speed coding and decoding of sound, MP3, speech, audio, video, and radar input and output.
[July 19, 2000, 9:50]
IBM Shows Cell Blade In Action
News It contains a PowerPC 970 processing core and eight DSP cores, which handle graphics or vector calculations. IBM has showed off a prototype blade server based on the Cell processor in action this week.
[March 10, 2006, 10:05]
Oracle Releases Database For Itanium
News Customers using Oracle's clustering technology, called Real Application Clusters, include American Airlines, Gas Authority of India, South African Police Service, security company VeriSign and Vector SCM, which is building a business-to-business...
[December 4, 2001, 9:34]
Cray To Announce Opteron-based Supercomputer
News Cray also is working on a separate design from its original "vector" supercomputer lineage, a type of system that can perform particular tasks such as signal analysis or encryption very quickly. The XT3 system links numerous low-end systems into a...
[November 13, 2006, 9:06]
Cray Sees Simple Road To Recovery
News One of the four chip architectures is Cray's traditional stronghold, vector processors that can execute particular types of mathematical problems very quickly. No single processor architecture can best execute all programs,"
[March 20, 2006, 8:05]
