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NICS joins petaflop supercomputer club

The National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) brought its new petaflop-scale supercomputer online this month, joining a very rarefied club of systems that can reach a thousand trillion calculations per second

| News | Government | Science | 10/16/09 at 9:33 pm |


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Nvidia says its new Fermi GPU will run supercomputers

Nvidia showed off a new GPU architecture on Wednesday that it hopes will allow it to move beyond gaming to play a greater role in the supercomputing market.

| News | Hardware | 10/01/09 at 1:21 pm |


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SGI aims at 'personal supercomputing' that's cheap, easy-to-use

They aren't selling personal supercomputers at Best Buy just yet. But that day probably isn't too far off, as the costs fall and they become easier to use.

| News | Hardware | 09/22/09 at 8:21 am |


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U.S. buys weather supercomputer with twin backup

The U.S. has upgraded the supercomputer used to develop weather forecast models, a system so critical to meteorologists that the government has bought a second, identical system as a backup.

| News | Government | Hardware | 09/08/09 at 8:22 pm |


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Supercomputers go from biggest to cheapest

Top 500 list's low-end reveals coming revolution in truly accessible high-end computing

| News | Hardware | 06/25/09 at 8:28 pm |


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