Boffins go HPC crazy while America stands in the iQ
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Not so much a Cold War, more a Cooling War The server performance battle has shifted to power dissipation. HP now claims not that its latest blade servers run database benchmarks or whatever faster than IBM, but that they put out less heat and require less airflow, thanks to "zoned cooling" and "thermal logic".â¦
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'Teraflops research chip' provides tremendous horsepower for designing and testing future PCs.
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In the only raw performance test figures revealed yesterday by Intel Senior Vice President Pat Gelsinger at Fall IDF in San Francisco, preliminary tests of the company's forthcoming quad-core "Harpertown" architecture Xeon 5400 show it beating a quad-core Opteron 2300 system in the critical SPEC floating point throughput rate test by just over 4%.
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The most boffin-heavy birthday bash, ever
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By Mike Rogoway, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Feb. 12--When Intel built its first "tera-scale" computer, capable of  handling a trillion calculations per second, the machine was the size of a  middle-class home.   That was 1996.
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They set a world record and helped power a cluster of 648 CPUs.
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The Climate Computer In 2002, a couple of hardware geeks thrust a crazy, fresh idea on the computing community. Chris Hipp, a co-founder of blade maker RLX, and Wu-chun Feng, then a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, concocted a very powerful cluster with servers based on laptop chips from Transmeta. The cluster failed to outperform similar Xeon-based systems, but it could run in a desert warehouse with no special cooling and with less failures than other Los Alamos boxes protected by very expensive air conditioning systems.â¦
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PC World's initial test results for this gaming chip are impressive.
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Climbing the totem pole Comment With much anticipated fanfare, the Top500 Supercomputer list was announced last week at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany.â¦
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US supercomputers once again are the fastest in the world, ending an uneasy 2 1/2 year period when a Japanese computer far outranked all competitors.
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Blog: The computers cost a lot, but they run on 18 watts of power at a peak.
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A panel of leading computer scientists warned in a report issued last week that unless the US federal government significantly increased support for advanced research on supercomputing, the US would be unable to retain its lead on that technological front
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Hobbyists who push CPU heat and performance limits teach the chip-makers a thing or two, too.
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A chip the size of a fingernail and capable of more than a trillion calculations per second is unveiled by Intel.
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A new computer chip developed by Intel promises to perform calculations as quickly an entire data center, while consuming as much energy as a light bulb. By the Associated Press.
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A supercomputer being built by IBM for the US Department of Energy (DOE) has topped a list of the world&#39;s fastest computers. The Blue Gene/L beta-system can perform 70,720 billion calculations per second, which