supercomputers
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Amazon Powers Silk With One Of The World’s Fastest Supercomputers
All the hype surrounding Amazon at the moment centres on the Kindle Fire. But behind the scenes, they’ve been developing one of the world’s most powerful super computers — and it powers the Fire’s browser, Silk.
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The Gordon Supercomputer Is A Solid State Powerhouse
The Gordon supercomputer, currently being built here at the San Diego Supercomputer centre by Appro International, is the first of its kind. utilising a quarter-petabyte of flash memory, Gordon will power through data-heavy applications way faster than vanilla parallel-processing supercomputers.
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The Cloud Server So Large They Should Call It ‘Hurricane’
As computational-heavy research gains momentum, the amount of data researchers generate is exploding — a single sequencing of DNA requires as much as 28 terabytes. So where do American researchers store their most ginormous data sets? In the largest academic cloud server in the US, at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
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Intel Has 50-Core, Supercomputer-Ready Processor On The Way
Intel’s Larrabee may have been a disaster, but that doesn’t mean all that research was for naught. It’s now surfaced in their upcoming, 50-core Knights Corner supercomputing processor, which will soon be commercially available.