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<title>IBM Roadrunner supercomputer shuttered over power usage</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/04/01/shutdown.of.amd.cell.based.supercomputer.despite.22.ranking/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1364813658_roadrunnersupercomputer.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The Los Alamos National Laboratory is shutting down its Roadrunner supercomputer, after deeming it too energy inefficient. Constructed by IBM in 2008, the five-year-old supercomputer was at one point the fastest in the world after achieving a speed exceeding one petaflop: one million billion calculations per second....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Cray XC30 supercomputer scales to over 100 petaflops</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/11/08/intel.xeon.processor.use.allows.for.over.1.million.cores/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1352395109_crayxc30.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Cray has launched its new supercomputing creation, the Cray XC30, codenamed Cascade. The new system combines Intel Xeon processors with the Aries interconnect, new cooling and power technologies and Cray's integrated software environment, to create a supercomputer capable of workloads higher than 100 petaflops....]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/11/08/intel.xeon.processor.use.allows.for.over.1.million.cores/</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>NVIDIA, AMD-powered supercomputer Titan goes live</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/10/29/gpu.based.supercomputer.to.help.biological.physical.modelling/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1351508268_titansupercomputer.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The world's fastest open-science supercomputer has finished its NVIDIA Kepler-based upgrade. The newly-rebranded Titan at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee now contains 18,688 Tesla K20 GPU accelerators that helps it achieve a peak performance of more than 20 petaflops....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Microsoft, NYPD create crime-fighting supercomputer</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/08/10/nyc.to.earn.share.of.crime.system.profits/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1344625679_NYPDAnnouncement1_Web.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The New York Police Department and Microsoft have constructed a supercomputer to help fight crime. Costing between $30 and $40 million to create, the Domain Awareness System (DAS) uses a combination of CCTV, license plate readers, police reports, and live incident reports to track criminals and help protect the city from potential threats such as terrorist attacks....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>US supercomputer reaches 16 petaflops, worlds fastest</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/06/18/ibm.system.uses.98000.nodes.15.million.cores/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1340017437_seq_cupps_bertsch_high-res.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A supercomputer in the United States tops the list of the world's top 500 for the first time since November 2009. Sequoia, an IBM Blue Gene/Q system installed by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for the Department of Energy, clocked in at 16.32 sustained petaflops during tests, 50 percent more powerful than the second place ìK Computerî in Japan....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Xgrid supercomputer enabler excised from OS X Mountain Lion?</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/06/12/removal.may.force.university.it.researchers.to.find.new.solutions/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1339552636_xgridlogo-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[OS X Mountain Lion was officially unveiled on Monday, and is shipping in July -- but conspicuously absent from the list of features is Apple's ad-hoc supercomputer tool Xgrid. Apple's Xgrid provided network administrators a means of constructing a Beowulf cluster, allowing them to use computer idle-time to drive calculations that can be divided into smaller operations. Xgrid client has been instal...]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/06/12/removal.may.force.university.it.researchers.to.find.new.solutions/</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>NVIDIA intros Maxiumus tech, first ARM-based supercomputer</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/11/14/supercomputers.based.on.tegra.3.chips/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1111/tegra3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[NVIDIA has introduced a new technology for workstations, known as Maximus, and what it claims to be the first supercomputer with ARM-based CPU/GPU hybrid hardware. Maximus enables computers to simultaneously  handle interactive graphics and complex computations required to the resulting renderings....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Fujitsu sells 23.2-petaflop PrimeHPC FX10 supercomputer</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/11/07/system.centers.on.16.core.processors/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1110/fujitsusml.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Fujitsu has introduced a new supercomputer, known as the PrimeHPC FX10, that is said to be capable of theoretical processing performance up to 23.2 petaflops. The system relies on the company's new VIIIfx processor, which serves as the successor to the existing IXfx chips. The 16-core water-cooled design supports standalone performance up to 236.5 gigaflops, with performance-per-watt reaching 2 gi...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>China unveils 1-petaflop supercomputer with local chips</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/10/31/sunway.bluelight.mpp.uses.8700.nation.built.cpus/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1110/chinese-1petaflop-homegrown-supercomputer-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[China has announced that it has created its first supercomputer built upon its own microprocessor chips. The computer, the Sunway BlueLight MPP, is rated at one petaflop per second (1,000 trillion calculations per second) and is comprised of 8,700 ShenWei SW1600  microprocessors. The computer has been up and running in the country's National Supercomputer Center in Jinan, a city in the Shandong Pr...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Oak Ridge Titan supercomputer aims at record with Tesla card</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/10/11/tesla.gpus.could.deliver.up.to.20.petaflops/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1110/NvidiaTesla_sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The Oak Ridge National Laboratory will use the parallel processing capability of the NVIDIA Tesla M2090 GPU in a new supercomputer, a Cray XK6 nicknamed "Titan." The new supercomputer could deliver over 20 petaflops, making it more than twice as fast as the most powerful supercomputer today, the Fujitsu K supercomputer. Titan will also be three times more energy efficient....]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/10/11/tesla.gpus.could.deliver.up.to.20.petaflops/</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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