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Case Studies

Los Alamos National Laboratory Breaks Petaflop Barrier With Hybrid Supercomputer From IBM

June 5, 2009 12:00am PDT

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has been at the forefront of national security since its founding in 1943. The organization now finds itself at the forefront of supercomputing technology....

Provided by: IBM

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Learning Complex Cell Invariance From Natural Videos: A Plausibility Proof

April 28, 2010 12:00am PDT

Neuroscience has revealed many properties of neurons and of the functional organization of visual cortex that are believed to be essential to human vision, but are missing in standard artificial...

Provided by: Portland State University

Blog Posts

PS3 drives medical research forward

September 25, 2007 3:56am PDT

InformationWeek has a piece in which it noted the role that the PS3 (PlayStation 3) have made to Stanford's Folding@home program, which studies proteins to understand their role in Parkinson's,...

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Gallery: Inside Japan's K Computer - world's top supercomputer

June 23, 2011 7:06am PDT

The unfinished Fujitsu K Computer, at more than 8 petaflops, is more than three times more powerful than China's second place machine.

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Gallery: Roadrunner: World's fastest supercomputer

June 18, 2008 8:13am PDT

It took miles of wire and a bunch of processors from PlayStation 3, but IBM was able to break the 1-petaflop barrier for supercomper speed.

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Failure Tolerance in Petascale Computers

November 1, 2007 12:00am PDT

Three of the most difficult and growing problems in future High-Performance Computing (HPC) installations will be avoiding, coping and recovering from failures. The coming PetaFLOPS clusters will...

Provided by: Carnegie Mellon University

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A Flexible Resource Management Architecture for the Blue Gene/P Supercomputer

January 1, 2007 12:00am PST

Blue Gene /P is a massively parallel supercomputer intended as the successor to Blue Gene/L. It leverages much of the existing architecture of its predecessor to provide scalability up to a...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Discussion Threads

Extreme Storage - EMC?s VPLEX and DDN Takeover Plan

May 28, 2010 7:24am PDT

Extreme Storage - EMC?s VPLEX and DDN Takeover Plan Talk to the average Storage Engineer who manages the growth of your datacenter?s modular system about Petaflops, Exabytes, Petabytes of Archives...

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