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IBM Corp has joined the University of Toronto with the primary goal of designing the most powerful supercomputer ever seen in Canada. The massive supercomputer will require its own building to store the machine which will be capable of performing 360 trillion calculations per second. The entire budget for the project is set at just under C$50 million ($47 million) over five years. That price includes construction and operating costs involved. Canada's supercomputer is already expected to be...

AMSTERDAM and PORTLAND, Oregon, August 14 /PRNewswire/ -- - This is a Joint Press Release of Maastricht University, NCF, NWO Physical Sciences and SARA At the 24th Annual Congress of the game Go, held in Portland, Oregon from August 2-10, the brand-new Dutch supercomputer Huygens defeated a human Go professional in an official match with a 9-stones handicap. It is the first victory of a computer playing Go against a human being. The application 'MoGo Titan', developed by INRIA France and...

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Aug. 14, 2008) - The University of Toronto's SciNet Consortium and IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced an agreement to build Canada's most powerful and energy-efficient supercomputer. The consortium, which includes the University of Toronto and associated research hospitals, will enhance SciNet's competitive position in globally important research projects. These include ground-breaking research in aerospace, astrophysics, bioinformatics, chemical physics, climate...

CAN'T PLAY THAT It's a puzzle worthy of The Riddler: Why is there no video game based on "The Dark Knight"? For the first time in the film-franchise's history, the caped crusader flew into movie theaters without a video game attached to his utility belt. And it doesn't look as if one is coming anytime soon. Game publisher Electronic Arts had the rights to make a "Dark Knight" title, which EA-owned developer Pandemic Studios was working on, according to an anonymous EA manager. Speculation...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today released its first certified package of open-source software for supercomputers based on Linux(R). The IBM HPC Open Software Stack is designed to make "clusters" -- servers linked together to form a single super-fast system -- more productive and easier to manage. The announcement was made at the opening of the LinuxWorld/NGDC tradeshow in San Francisco. Supercomputing, or high-performance computing (HPC), is experiencing rapid growth as companies of all sizes begin to...

By Paul WoodYour computer is about to get a lot faster, so fast you won't even notice it. The University of Illinois has partnered with Yahoo, Intel, Hewlett-Packard and the National Science Foundation to combine 1,024 core computers at each of six sites worldwide, in order to provide a massive amount of computer power to people designing applications to make the Internet more useful. You probably won't notice it, and you're not supposed to, any more than you have to understand how a phone...

By Carol Park, The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif. Jul. 12--The purchase of a $280,000 supercomputer has made UCR's Institute for Integrative Genome Biology more attractive to companies and researchers, a campus official said. Buying the computer was "required to stay current and competitive," Institute Director Natasha Raikhel said. "Now we can bring (in) large grants and do effective research." The Institute for Integrative Genome Biology was established in 2000 to pioneer...

The Naval Oceanographic Office Major Shared Resource Center will house a powerful new IBM supercomputer that will be used principally to support the oceanographic modeling and analysis needs of researchers at the Department of Defense. The supercomputer, a Power 575 Hydro-Cluster, has a peak speed of 90 teraflops (90 trillion floating-point operations per second), making it one of the most powerful systems in the Department of Defense (DoD). The Naval Oceanographic Office Major Shared...

The Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO) Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) will house a powerful new IBM (NYSE: IBM) supercomputer that will be used principally to support the oceanographic modeling and analysis needs of researchers at the Department of Defense. The supercomputer, a Power 575 Hydro-Cluster, has a peak speed of 90 teraflops (90 trillion floating-point operations per second), making it one of the most powerful systems in the Department of Defense. The NAVO MSRC is one of four...

By David Ho, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Jul. 1--New York -- A microchip built to power video game consoles may help speed up the search for deep oil reserves in areas such as the Gulf of Mexico, IBM Corp. and the international oil company Repsol are announcing today. Repsol, based in Spain, tested IBM supercomputers to decipher the complex geology found at greater depths. The technology makes the computing process of searching for oil deposits up to six times faster, the...