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Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has created a machine capable of doing the unthinkable. In fact, it’s capabilities not only sound impossible, they sound fictional. By combining traditional CPUs with graphical processing units (GPUs), the Titan Supercomputer capable of spitting out 20 petaflops, making it 10 times more powerful than ORNL’s previous Jaguar supercomputer. For the uninitiated, a petaflop, says Buddy...
Some of the most popular shoes of summer are not always foot friendly. Here are tips and insights from Topical BioMedics for avoiding pain and injuries. Rhinebeck, NY (PRWEB) August 08, 2012 People love to set their feet free in the hot lazy days of summer….but this can lead to significant foot problems later on down the line. Individuals are especially at risk if they have foot health conditions, such as plantar fasciitis, bunions, or complications related to diabetes, which can...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) today announced that they are broadening their nearly 20-year collaboration in high performance computing (HPC) by joining forces to work with industrial partners to help boost their competitiveness in the global economy. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120627/NY31344 ) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO ) Under a recently...
NASA's flagship Pleiades supercomputer just received a boost to help keep pace with the intensive number-crunching requirements of scientists and engineers working on some of the agency's most challenging missions. Pleiades is critical for the modeling, simulation and analysis of a diverse set of agency projects in aeronautics research, Earth and space sciences and the design and operation of future space exploration vehicles. The supercomputer is located at the NASA Advanced...
WASHINGTON, June 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's flagship Pleiades supercomputer just received a boost to help keep pace with the intensive number-crunching requirements of scientists and engineers working on some of the agency's most challenging missions. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Pleiades is critical for the modeling, simulation and analysis of a diverse set of agency projects in aeronautics research, Earth and space sciences and the...
Researchers at Intel are building new chip architectures to bring high-performance computing into the exascale range, or 1,000 times faster than a petaflop, which is one quadrillion, or a thousand trillion, calculations per second. The No. 1 chipmaker disclosed new technical details about its new line of processors, which are based on Intel’s “Many Integrated Core Architecture,” saying its latest technology for high-performance computing is worthy of an entirely new brand – Xeon...
It has been more than two years since the US lost the number one spot on the TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers to China, which then lost that spot to Japan’s K Computer. Now, after IBM unveiled its Sequoia BlueGene/Q System which manages a sustained 16.32 petaflops, the title is returning to the US, dropping Japan to second. The computer, built for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) by IBM, outpaces Japan’s K Computer by more than 5 petaflops...
MILPITAS, Calif., June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Appro (http://www.appro.com), a leading provider of supercomputing solutions announces today that the company has deployed an aggregate performance of nearly 5 PFlops of the new Appro Xtreme-X(TM) Supercomputers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor E5 family in the last ten months. According to the latest Top500 list, most of the new systems are ranked in the top 100 fastest supercomputers in the world. (Logo:...
MUNICH, June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), in collaboration with IBM (NYSE: IBM), today announced the world's first commercially available hot-water cooled supercomputer, a powerful, high-performance system designed to help researchers and industrial institutions across Europe investigate and solve some of the world's most daunting scientific challenges. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO ) YouTube:...
Avoid a dreaded “flip-flop fiasco” to keep feet healthy and happy this summer, says The American Podiatric Medical Association Bethesda, MD (PRWEB) May 25, 2012 Flip-flops, and sandals, and “slippers,” oh my! Summer is officially here and it’s that time of year again: with warm weather comes an increase in tendinitis, stress fractures, and other injuries that can be attributed to America’s favorite summer footwear. Whatever you choose to call them, flip flops are now back on...
