Have federal nuclear supercomputer? GO CRYPTOMINING!
News of arrests at a Russian nuclear physics lab for “unauthorised cryptomining” reminded us of SETI@work in the 1990s… Continue reading Have federal nuclear supercomputer? GO CRYPTOMINING!
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Just in Time for the Holidays: Give The Gift of Cray
The name Cray, as in [Seymour Cray] is synonymous with supercomputing. If you hurry, you can bid on a Cray J90/J916 on eBay. You might want to think about where to put it though. It is mounted on a trailer, requires 480V, and the shipping is $3,000!
First introduced in 1994, the J90 was an “entry level” machine. This particular machine supported up to 16 CPUs (each CPU was actually two chips) running at a blazing 100 MHz. The memory system was more impressive, achieving 48 GB/s.
The Cray T90 computer was much faster (and more expensive) but none of …read more
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Cray Supercomputers in Microsoft Azure
Microsoft and Cray have announced a partnership that will bring physical Cray supercomputers to the Azure cloud.
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You Are Part Extragalactic, Study Says
Supercomputer simulations of galaxy evolution estimate how much of the Milky Way was born beyond its borders. Continue reading You Are Part Extragalactic, Study Says
Scientists Used Supercomputers to Learn How Pythons Regenerate Their Organs
Maybe we could do it one day, too. Continue reading Scientists Used Supercomputers to Learn How Pythons Regenerate Their Organs
IBM’s Watson Is Playing at This Year’s US Open
The supercomputer’s newest task is running one of the biggest events in tennis: this month’s US Open championships. Continue reading IBM’s Watson Is Playing at This Year’s US Open
Even IBM’s Watson Is Getting Into ‘Pokémon Go’
Players must have Watson’s visual recognition API with Watson’s Internet of Things platform installed for it to work. Continue reading Even IBM’s Watson Is Getting Into ‘Pokémon Go’
The Toronto Raptors Are Using IBM’s Watson to Draft A Winning Team
On NBA Draft Day, the supercomputer is their not-so-secret weapon. Continue reading The Toronto Raptors Are Using IBM’s Watson to Draft A Winning Team
China develops the World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer without US chips
China beats its own record with the World’s fastest supercomputer.
Sunway TaihuLight, a newly built supercomputer from China, now ranks as the world’s most powerful machine.
During the International Supercomputer Conference in Germany on Monday, Top5… Continue reading China develops the World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer without US chips
Designing a High Performance Parallel Personal Cluster
Kristina Kapanova is a PhD student at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Her research is taking her to simulations of quantum effects in semiconductor devices, but this field of study requires a supercomputer for billions of calculations. The college had a proper supercomputer, and was getting a new one, but for a while, Kristina and her fellow ramen-eating colleagues were without a big box of computing. To solve this problem, Kristina built her own supercomputer from off-the-shelf ARM boards.
Because of the demands of a supercomputer – namely the amount of RAM and pure processing speed – Raspberry Pis and …read more
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