Ten-core, 2.4GHz Xeons? Pshaw. IBM is used to the kind of clock speeds and brute force power that lead to Europe-dominating supercomputers. Big Blue has no intentions of letting its guard down when it unveils its next generation processors at the upc…
If basking in the presence of a powerful supercomputer is on your list of “must-haves” when selecting a proper university, then you may wish to fire off an admissions application to the Hokies at Virginia Tech. The school’s HokieSpeed system is now …
Intel spent most of yesterday standing in the bar at the SC11 conference showing off the size of its computing prowess. Admittedly, it’s on a roll; the Xeon E5 processor powers ten of the Top 500 supercomputers in the world, and Intel chips as a w…
NVIDIA has announced that it’ll be providing CUDA GPUs for Barcelona’s Supercomputing Center, with the facility looking to substantially boost its energy efficiency with these later this week at the SC11 Conference in Seattle. While the words “low p…
