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  • U.S. HPC Lead in Danger

    The SC11 supercomputing conference in Seattle last month saw an almost obsessive focus on the development of an exascale computing system -- one that would be roughly 1,000 times more powerful than any existing system -- <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221883/Exascale_computing_seen_in_this_decade">before the end of the decade</a> .

    Written by Patrick Thibodeau06 Dec. 11 02:14
  • Windows set to arrive on IBM mainframes

    IBM mainframes are on the verge of managing Windows applications, crossing one of the last big system divides in data centers.

    Written by Patrick Thibodeau07 Nov. 11 16:13
  • Cray building $97 million supercomputer for U.S.

    The never-ending global push to build ever faster supercomputers took another step today with Cray's announcement that it was awarded a contract from U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory to build a system that could potentially deliver up to 20 petaflops of peak performance, or 20 quadrillion floating operations per second.

    Written by Patrick Thibodeau12 Oct. 11 03:02
  • IBM's Watson supercomputer to diagnose patients

    Watson, IBM's game-show playing supercomputer, will soon try its hand at assisting physicians in the WellPoint health care plan in diagnosing and treating patients.

    Written by Lucas Mearian13 Sept. 11 05:52
  • Meet IBM's new $75,000 mainframe

    IBM never talks about the cost of its high-end mainframes, but when it comes to its low-end mainframe, price is a major focal point.

    Written by Patrick Thibodeau12 July 11 20:14
  • Japan answers China's supercomputing surge

    A new supercomputer from Japan whose performance passed the 8 petaflop milestone ended China's brief period atop the list of the world's fastest supercomputers.

    Written by Patrick Thibodeau21 June 11 05:38
  • EMC to sell PCIe SSD cards for server acceleration

    LAS VEGAS -- As part of its strategy to touch just about every part of the private and public cloud infrastructure, EMC said today it will begin selling PCIe flash cards for servers to accelerate I/O to backend storage systems.

    Written by Lucas Mearian10 May 11 08:20
  • IBM's Watson not as smart as you think

    CAMBRIDGE, MASS. -- As smart as IBM's Watson supercomputer may have seemed while defeating two former Jeopardy champions , it wouldn't be able to hold a conversation with or speak intelligently to the attendees at its own conference, according to artificial intelligence (A.I.) experts who spoke at MIT Monday.

    Written by Lucas Mearian13 April 11 03:08
  • Brain behind IBM's Watson not unlike a human's

    IBM's Watson supercomputer, which shellacked Jeopardy's top human champions during airings of the game show this week, is powered by 90 servers and a network-attacked storage (NAS) cluster with 21.6TB of data.

    Written by Lucas Mearian19 Feb. 11 05:58
  • IBM makes its zEnterprise 196 mainframe friendlier

    IBM's latest mainframe, the zEnterprise 196, was released last summer as a cross-platform management system that could work in mixed processor and operating system environments. In pursuit of that goal, the company continues to roll out new components.

    Written by Patrick Thibodeau16 Feb. 11 09:28
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