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Prace Is Ready For Implementation: Applications Ported
The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) has been researching promising petascaling techniques, as well as related work on optimization techniques...
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Trust Linux!
A team of researchers has implemented support for 'trusted computing' in a commercially available version of the open source operating system Linux, breaking new...
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Ornl, Partners Helping Scientists Deal with Data Deluge
Vast amounts of information that could hold the key to breakthroughs in environmental research will be made readily available through DataOne, a global data access...
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Nist Demonstrates 'universal' Programmable Quantum Processor
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated the first "universal" programmable quantum information processor able...
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3D Web Will Save Hpc Industry, Intel Cto Says
Intel chief technology officer Justin Rattner believes that three-dimensional (3D) Web technologies will revive the high-performance computing (HPC) industry....
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IBM Advances on a Computer that Works Like a Human Brain
Researchers from IBM's Almaden Research Center and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have performed a computer simulation that matches the scale and complexity...
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Supercomputers Are Still Fast, but Less Super
A decade-long trend reached its inevitable conclusion this week when a supercomputer based on chips from Advanced Micro Devices became the fastest machine on the...
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Georgia Tech Launches Experimental Green It Initiative
The biggest challenge in computing today, some experts say, is not processing power, but power consumption. To help understand and reduce power consumption, the...
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China Joins Supercomputer Elite
China has become one of a handful of nations to own one of the top five supercomputers in the world. Its Tianhe-1 computer, housed at the National Super Computer...
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Petascale Tools Could Provide Deeper Insight Into Genomic Evolution
Research recently funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 aims to develop computational tools that will utilize next-generation petascale computers...
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There's No Business Like Grid Business
Scientists have embraced the computing and communications grid, but businesses have held back, concerned about complexity and security. Now a European research...
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Supercomputers With 100 Million Cores Coming By 2018
A key topic at this week's SC09 supercomputing conference, which takes place Nov. 14-20 in Portland, Ore., is how to reach the exascale plateau in supercomputing...
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Tough Choices For Supercomputing's Legacy Apps
The future of supercomputing holds several significant software challenges, writes Numerical Algorithms Group's Andrew Jones. The first challenge is the rapidly...
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Two Rival Supercomputers Duke It Out For Top Spot
A Cray supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has regained the title of the world's most powerful supercomputer, overtaking the installation that was ranked...
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Google Launches New Programming Language: Go
Google has unveiled Go, a new programming language the company says offers the speed of working in a dynamic language such as Python and the performance and safety...
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Quantum Computer Gets Closer: Quantum Particles Pinned Down
Scientists at the Delft University of Technology were able to gain control over the environment of a quantum particle, which is a key step in the potential development...
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Spdy: An Experimental Protocol For a Faster Web
As part of the "Let's make the web faster" initiative, we are experimenting with alternative protocols to help reduce the latency of web pages. One of these experiments...
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Secret Math of Fly Eyes Could Overhaul Robot Vision
By turning the brain cell activity underlying fly eyesight into mathematical equations, researchers have found an ultra-efficient method for pulling motion patterns...
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Wi-Fi Certification Might Be Tweaked For Smart Grids
The Wi-Fi Alliance has formed a task group to determine what standards need to be modified to ensure Wi-Fi is the tool of choice for smart-grid applications. The...
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