Colo. firm chosen for Wyoming NCAR supercomputer

The National Center for Atmospheric Research has selected a Colorado company to work on a supercomputing facility west of Cheyenne and potentially become general contractor for the project.

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Science-based US supercomputer fastest in world

At least for the moment, the world's fastest supercomputer is devoted to solving scientific questions that may save the planet — climate change, renewable energy, new medicines — rather than advances in nuclear weapons that might blow it up.

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NEC to quit Japan supercomputer project

Japanese electronics giant NEC Corp. said Thursday it will withdraw from a government-led project to produce a next-generation supercomputer, citing falling profits amid the global economic crisis.

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Oak Ridge boasts fastest computer at open research

How fast is the new supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory? If everyone in the world performed one mathematical calculation per second, it would take 650 years to do what this machine can do in one day.

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Supercomputers to Take on New Research

The forces at work in dying stars and black holes, Earth's global climate change, nanostructures and cellular membranes all will be on the agenda for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's supercomputers this year.

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Self-cleaning walls, counter tops, fabrics, even micro-robots that can walk on water -- all those things and more could be closer to reality because of research recently completed by scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and at Japan's RIKEN institute.

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"At what speed do vibrating black holes stop vibrating?", scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville and The University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth decided against the usual supercomputers.

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Is Google Evil? Is Google trying to take over the World? Is it a conspiracy? Or it just good business practice. Some people think Google is Evil. Some may think Google future is SkyNet. So who is Sarah Connor? Where is John Connor? Paranoia

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For organizations that need high-volume computational power but can't afford access to behemoth supercomputers running a quadrillion operations per second, Cray has introduced the CX1. It's a small supercomputer that can fit in an office and goes for as little as $25,000.

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The IBM Blue Gene/P Intrepid at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), located at the U.S.

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The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has established a new research centre as an aim to develop software for a new breed of multithreaded supercomputers. More Articles and Seeds From blinkin

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A new IBM supercomputer will help the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO) with ocean modeling and weather forecasting, thereby improving maritime safety.

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HP today announced that the company continues to strengthen its position on the TOP500 list, a ranking of the world's 500 most powerful supercomputers, with HP BladeSystem c-Class servers dominating as the most prominent computing architecture on the list.

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IBM (NYSE: IBM) officially opened its "greenest" data center in North America today at its Boulder, Colo., site.

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IBM and Umeå University announced today that the most powerful Windows-based computer in Europe is being installed at the supercomputer center known as HPC2N.

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USA Supercomputer Splurge

"Its exciting to think that we can get the best brains from super-computing and from mass computing and bring those together and make great progress in the decade ahead." - Bill Gates, at the Super-Computing 2005 Conference in Seattle.

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An American military supercomputer, built with components designed for the Sony PlayStation 3, has reached a computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second.

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SAN FRANCISCO — An American military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second.

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The world of computing could have been very different to that of today had a machine that was designed over 150 years ago been built at the time.

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The latest thinking that is doing rounds in scientific circles is whether the universe is a computer.

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"Scientists are using the world's most powerful computer to design drugs that could prevent HIV infection."

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HAPPY PI DAY: March 14th (3.14) is day and all around the world mathematicians are celebrating this compelling and mysterious constant of Nature. Pi appears in equations describing the orbits of planets, the colors of auroras, the structure of DNA. It's everywhere.

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Sun and the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas (TACC) ushered in a new, and more powerful era of general-purpose supercomputing when they recently unveiled "Ranger", a supercomputer based on Sun's Constellation System.

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Much of the gaseous mass of the universe is bound up in a tangled web of cosmic filaments that stretch for hundreds of millions of light-years, according to a new supercomputer study by a team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Iran-Super Computer-Invention Chancellor of computer at the faculty of Science and Technology University Mohsen Sharifi who got his Ph.D on a parallel high performance machine has invented a new system which increases the speed of personal computers (PC) to those of super comput …

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A computer system designed in India has made it into a top ten of the world's fastest supercomputers. Computer giant IBM continues to dominate the list - which is compiled twice a year - with a total of 232 out of the top 500 supercomputers.

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Take 8 PS 3 consoles, Yellow Dog Linux, a Gigabit Ethernet switch and your favorite protein folding or gravitational wave modeling codes and you're doing real science. On a Playstation!

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Dr. Gaurav Khanna of the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, has hooked up 8 PlaysStation 3s running Linux to make a cluster computer that rivals the supercomputers he previously used to to measure theoretical gravity waves around a black hole.

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The Storm worm botnet has grown so massive and far-reaching that it easily overpowers the world's top supercomputers.

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The ultimate solution to the Rubik's cube has come closer thanks to hours of number crunching on a supercomputer. The research has proved that a Rubik's cube can be returned to its original state in no more than 26 moves.

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