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In Texas, A Stampede of Petaflops
March 28th, 2013 : John RathIn its first days of operation, the new Stampede system at the University of Texas at Austin's Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) debuted as the world's seventh-fastest supercomputer. But there's plenty more power in the pipeline. Read More
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80 Million Hours of Digital Rendering Produce “The Croods”
March 28th, 2013 : John RathDreamWorks' latest movie, "The Croods,"pushed the boundaries of high-performance workloads, requiring more than 80 million render hours to generate visual images from 3-D models. Read More
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GPU News: Cray Awarded $32 Million Contract
March 25th, 2013 : John RathCray announced that it has signed a contract with the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) to upgrade and expand its Cray XC30 supercomputer. Cirrascale and Penguin also unveil news on GPU technologies. Read More
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European Supercomputer to Map Human Brain
March 22nd, 2013 : Colleen MillerThis video gives an overview of JuQueen, a new supercomputer recently unveiled at a research center in Juelich, Germany, which is the fastest supercomputer in Europe, capable of performing quadrillions of calculations per second. Read More
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Behind Blue Waters: Assembly of Cray XE6 Blades
March 20th, 2013 : Colleen MillerWhat goes into making a supercomputer? This video shows the assembly of Cray blades that will go into Blue Waters, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications project at the University of Illinois. Read More
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Eurora Sets Supercomputing Energy Efficiency Record
February 1st, 2013 : John RathThe new Eurora system has set a new record for supercomputing energy efficiency, reaching 3,150 megaflops per watt of sustained performance - a mark 26 percent higher than the top system on the most recent Green500 list of the world's most efficient supercomputers. Read More
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Sequoia Supercomputer Breaks 1 Million Core Barrier
January 31st, 2013 : John RathThe Stanford Center for Turbulence Research (CTR) has set a new record in computational science, using the Sequoia supercomputer with more than one million computing cores to solve a complex fluid dynamics problem — he prediction of noise generated by a supersonic jet engine. Read More
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Time-Lapse: A Supercomputer in 90 Seconds
January 16th, 2013 : Colleen MillerA time-lapse video shows the construction of the Fujitsu Primergy high-performance cluster as it is assembled in Australia. Read More
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Cray Supercomputer Powers German Weather Service
January 16th, 2013 : John RathCray announced it has been awarded a $23 million dollar contract to provide two Cray XC30 supercomputers and two Cray Sonexion 1600 storage systems to Germany's National Meteorological Service Read More
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