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IBM breaks petaflop barrier Now that IBM has broken supercomputing's petaflop barrier with its RoadRunner system, capable of more than one thousand trillion (one quadrillion) sustained floating-point operations per second, attention among supercomputer developers turns next to a new performance Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Nasa set to join petaflop elite Nasa has unveiled a plan to boost its supercomputer power to help plan and model future missions. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > BBC |
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China aims for petaflop computer in 2010 China has stepped up investment in its homegrown Godson microprocessor and hopes to build its first petaflop-class supercomputer using the chip in 2010, one of the country's senior engineers said on Tuesday.Chin Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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NASA ditches Itanic for new Xeon-based SGI giant 20,480 cores on the Moon NASA has once again turned to SGI for a massive supercomputer.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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NASA confirms manned mission to 10 Petaflops 'Our Xeon binge is named Pleiades' Well, well, well. It would seem that the 20,000-core supercomputer announced yesterday by NASA will just be the first course in an ongoing relationship between the space folk, SGI and Intel.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Nuke boffins plan Penguin petaflop cluster Linux A-bomb sim rig could go commercial America's Lawrence Livermore nuclear bomb lab has teamed up with open-source computing heavyweights to build the next generation of Linux superclusters, ultimately scaling into the petaflop range. The project has been dubbed "Hyperion".… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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NASA gets Hubble going - Inquirer NASA gets Hubble goingInquirer - 13 hours agoBy Nick Farrell: Friday, 17 October 2008, 9:31 AM NASA NETWORK experts have successfully powered up the backup data handling computer on the Hubble space telescope.Hubble in trouble: NASA's fix for failed computer hits snag C Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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July 29, 1958: Ike Inks Space Law, NASA Born in Wake of Russ Moon 1958: President Eisenhower signs the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The plot had thickened months before. Beep … beep … beep … They were steady, almost metronomic, signals coming from a tiny radio b Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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July 29, 1958: Ike Inks Space Law, NASA Born in Wake of Russ Moon 1958: President Eisenhower signs the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The plot had thickened months before. Beep … beep … beep … They were steady, almost metronomic, signals coming from a tiny radio b Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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NASA Will Not Launch Next Mission To Mars Until 2011 - dBTechno USA TodayNASA Will Not Launch Next Mission To Mars Until 2011dBTechno - 14 hours agoWashington (dbTechno) - NASA has announced that they have been forced to delay the launch of the next mission to Mars until 2011. The original plan was to launch the next mission to Mars Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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SGI: Still Alive And Kicking internetnews.com: "The Top 500 list of supercomputers rarely contains real shockers, but in November, readers might have been surprised to find that No. 3 was a 126-teraflop computer at the New Mexico Computing Applications Center..." Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Bits: On Past a Petaflop The world’s fastest computer is a Los Alamos National Laboratory supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for Sony PS3 video game machines. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > NY Time |
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SGI shows off Molecule concept machine SC08 A dense cluster of Intel Atoms While supercomputer maker Silicon Graphics was showing off its existing Altix lines of Xeon and Itanium servers at the SC08 supercomputing show in Austin, Texas, this week, the most interesting thing the company touted was not yet a real computer, but a concept Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Obama stimulus plan aims to boost digital economy In pledging to "renew our information superhighway," President-elect Barack Obama has offered the broad outline of an economic stimulus plan likely to lead to major increases in IT spending -- especially for broadband deployment and technology for schools and health c Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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NASA's Daring Shuttle Rescue Plan When something goes wrong in space, NASA enacts its backup plan. Home > Rss Directory > General > ABC News |
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SGI tears up couch to buy Linux Networx assets Cluster fluster With a bankruptcy behind it, SGI has decided to go ahead and start expanding again by purchasing Linux Networx's "core assets."… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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SGI Acquires Linux Networx eWeek: "The acquisition should help SGI build Linux-based clusters for high-performance computing..." Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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SGI slots 'Seaburg' chipset into blades Adds Altix ICE casings SGI this week is pushing a fresh batch of hardware into its Altix ICE blade server lineup. The company announced two new blade enclosures and new blade options.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Small bird wants SGI to fly in private Henpecks board over low share value A major investor in SGI wants to move the infamously fallen server vendor to the relative safety of the private sector.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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SGI Relicenses OpenGL: "A Huge Gift to the Free Software Community" Linux.com: "After nine months, an open secret can finally be acknowledged: The OpenGL code that is responsible for 3-D acceleration on GNU/Linux, which was released by SGI in 1999, has been running on licenses that were accepted by neither the Free Software Foundation (FSF) nor the Open Sourc Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |