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IBM Seeks to Build the Computer of the Future Based on Insights from the Brain - (USA)
In an unprecedented undertaking, IBM Research and five leading universities are partnering to create computing systems that are expected to simulate and emulate the brain’s abilities for sensation, perception, action, interaction and cognition while rivaling its low power consumption and compact size. IBM and its collaborators have been awarded $4.9 million in funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the first phase of DARPA’s Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plast
http://www.pclaunches.com/computers/ibm_seeks_to_build_the_computer_of_the_future_based_on_insights_from_the_brain.php
Mission to build a simulated brain begins - info-tech - 06 June 2005 - New Scientist - (USA)
'Blue Brain' will be the first computer to simulate an entire human brain, down to the molecular level - it may help illuminate human consciousness
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7470
Jonathan Schwartz's Blog: The World's Largest Supercomputing Cloud - (USA)
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/lone_ranger
Microwulf: Supercomputing on a Budget - (USA)
If you crave a little more power than overclocking can provide then maybe building your own supercomputer is an option
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/microwulf/supercomputing-on-a-budget-296015.php
AmericanHeritage.com / FATHER OF THE COMPUTER AGE - (USA)
http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/1999/4/1999_4_56.shtml
SGI - Innovation for Results : SGI and Linux Networx - (USA)
Information on the SGI Acquisition of Linux Networx and support of Linux Networx Systems.
http://www.linuxnetworx.com/
Portland Group and NVIDIA Develop New Fortran Language for CUDA GPUs - (USA)
The NVIDIA(R) CUDA™ architecture allows developers to offload computationally intensive kernels to the massively parallel GPU. CUDA gives developers explicit control over the mapping of general-purpose computational kernels to GPUs as well as placement and movement of data between the x64 processor and the GPU. The NVIDIA CUDA C compiler already provides this capability to C programmers. The CUDA Fortran compiler will provide this same level of control and optimization in a native Fortran enviro
http://embeddedsystemnews.com/portland-group-and-nvidia-develop-new-fortran-language-for-cuda-gpus.html
mini-itx.com - projects - mini-itx cluster - (USA)
Independent Mini-ITX Form Factor News, Suggestions, Links and Complete Plans for Projects, Hardware Suppliers, FAQ and Online Store
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/cluster/
Supercomputing for the Masses - (USA)
Advances in chip design are prompting companies to take advantage of the potential power. But the necessary new markets and software are lagging.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2007/tc20071212_550604.htm?campaign_id=rss_tech
Super Computing 2007 on eecue.com : Dave Bullock / eecue - (USA)
Super Computing 2007 on eecue.com : Dave Bullock / eecue images eecue on eecue.com
http://eecue.com/images_archive/eecue-album-1500-1-SC07.html
QLogic Could Show Solid Gains over the Next Year - (USA)
Steve Alexander submits: QLogic ( QLGC ) manufactures and sells components used in computer data storage networks. The company has 3 primary divisions. Host Products (about 75% of sales) sells host bus adapters, or HBAs, which connect computers to networked storage devices like hard drives or optical media. This division also makes InfiniBand Host Channel Adapters (HCAs), which are used in "supercomputing" applications that require high data bandwidth. The second division is Network Products (
http://seekingalpha.com/article/149446-qlogic-could-show-solid-gains-over-the-next-year?source=feed
Basement-Supercomputing - Integrated Cluster Software Suite - (USA)
Basement Supercomputing
http://www.basement-supercomputing.com/content/view/17/44/
With computers, sometimes size, as well as speed, does count - (USA)
Dawning supercomputer Supercomputers, which are up to a million times faster than the typical desktop PC, are still staples in the data warehouses of national laboratories and universities in the US, Japan and Western Europe. But over the last few years, the falling cost of supercomputer systems has allowed a broader range of corporations and institutions, including many in China to buy them for everything from processing movie graphics to searching for oil. Just 18 months ago, Chi
http://www.chinaeconomicreview.com/it/2008/11/26/with-computers-sometimes-size-as-well-as-speed-does-count.html
DIY: Build a Supercomputer better than the one your government has. - (USA)
Yes! Its true. you can build this. and believe me it can fit into your pocket aswell. It will take around $2400 or Rs. 1,20,000 only. Compare this with Million$ supercomputer used in R&D labs. Don’t worry, this will be faster than that one. Take 8 PS 3 consoles, Yellow Dog Linux, a Gigabit Ethernet switch and your favorite protein folding or gravitational wave modeling codes and you’re doing real science. On a Playstation! Try playing Ratchet & Clank on a Cray Most scientific comp
http://www.taranfx.com/blog/?p=483
Nvidia launches GPU developer toolkit - vnunet.com - (USA)
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2193070/nvidia-launches-gpu-developer
Cray-1: The Super Computer - (USA)
Seymour Cray's big super computer was crazy. It's signals between components had to be timed by trimming long cables up to 1/16th of an inch at a time by hand and was basically interwoven with a giant refrigeration system. Name: Cray-1 Year created: 1976 Creator: Cray Research, Inc. Cost: $5 million to $10 million Memory: 4MW semiconductor Speed: 160 MFLOPS Building supercomputers was a dream, an aspiration, and a life's pursuit for Seymour Cray, and his work on the computers that b
http://www.dv-depot.com/19676/cray-1-the-super-computer/
newsobserver.com | World's fastest computer will focus on nuclear weaponry - (USA)
Read Raleigh business articles at the News & Observer
http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/1102464.html
Neuromorphic Brain Emulation - (USA)
.fullpost{display:inline;}The US government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has given a 4.9 million dollar grant to I.B.M. research and five universities for a new project. They basically want to reverse engineer the brain on a neuromorphic chip. I have mentioned about DARPA doing this in the past. However, then the deal was not yet finalized. You can read about the contract at DARPA's website. At the I.B.M. Almaden Research Center, Dharmendra Modha is now currently the
http://brainstimulant.blogspot.com/2008/11/neuromorphic-brain-emulation.html
Russia alarmed at US supercomputer lead - (USA)
Do Russians even make personal computers? Computer World Russia's launch of Sputnik in 1957 triggered a crisis of confidence in the U.S. that helped drive the creation of a space program. Now, Russia is comparing the U.S.'s achievements in supercomputing with theirs, and they don't like what they see. In a speech on Tuesday, Russia's President, Dmitry Medvedev, criticized his country's IT industry almost to the point of sarcasm for failing to develop supercomputing technology, and urged a dra
http://reportonarrakis.blogspot.com/2009/07/russia-alarmed-at-us-supercomputer-lead.html
On the Importance of Programming in Assembly Language - (USA)
I consider skill in programming at the machine level — the writing of code in assembly language — to be vital. By way of demonstration, I suggest that anyone who thinks they are skilled in The Art of Programming in Assembly Language should read my post On Programming: Moore’s Law and Software . If you think you are a skilled assembly language programmer, then read the post and prove your expertise by answering one or more of the following questions. I believe I can give a reasoned answer to
http://daveshields.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/on-the-importance-of-programming-in-assembly-language/
IBM dominates latest green supercomputer list - (USA)
Must be the season for lists. Aside from the Greenpeace one I pointed to earlier today, you’ve also got the latest Supercomputing Green 500 ranking to consider, published by the Green500.org. This is the list that reinterprets the organization’s Top 500 high-performance ranking by focusing on energy-efficiency metrics, and the computers that are listed are [...]
http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=1494
SiCortex Co-Founder on Intel and Shutting Down - (USA)
Even as times get tough for pioneering startups building semiconductors and computing equipment, the chip industry needs to maintain its biodiversity, says Matt Reilly , a co-founder of the recently shuttered SiCortex. I wrote yesterday about the green supercomputing company selling its assets, and Reilly left an excellent comment taking me to task for calling the silicon that powers the SiCortex computer proprietary simply because it didn’t use x86 architecture. I considered that the begin
http://www.blogcottage.com/2009/05/29/sicortex-co-founder-on-intel-and-shutting-down/
Superconducting Qubits Tie the NOT Gate: Scientific American - (USA)
Researchers close in on a small quantum computer built from loops of superconducting metal
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleid=2C757567-E7F2-99DF-3F5FCC309D9C542E&chanId=sa025
IBM to build brain-like computers - (USA)
IBM to build brain-like computers November 23rd, 2008 Mimicking synapses like this one is crucial to the effort IBM has announced it will lead a US government-funded collaboration to make electronic circuits that mimic brains. Part of a field called “cognitive computing”, the research will bring together neurobiologists, computer and materials scientists and psychologists. As a first step in its research the project has been granted $4.9m (£3.27m) from US defence agenc
http://www.urlacademy.com/?p=563
Another Large-Scale Brain Simulation - (USA)
On the heels of the Blue Brain project, here's another effort to simulate neural systems on a very large scale, with the provocative title "Cognitive Computing via Synaptronics and Supercomputing." This link is to the PI's blog: www.modha.org From DARPA's announcement: “The end goal: ubiquitously deployed computers imbued with a new intelligence that can integrate information from a variety of sensors and sources, deal with ambiguity, respond in a context-dependent way, learn over time and
http://philosophyofbrains.com/2008/11/22/another-largescale-brain-simulation.aspx?ref=rss
Job-based vs. request-based computing - (USA)
Companies are adopting cloud systems infrastructure services in two different ways: job-based “batch processing”, non-interactive computing; and request-based , real-time-response, interactive computing. The two have distinct requirements, but much as in the olden days of time-sharing, they can potentially share the same infrastructure. Job-based computing is usually of a number-crunching nature — scientific or high-performance computing. This is the sort of thing that users usually like to
http://blogs.gartner.com/lydia_leong/2009/06/18/job-based-vs-request-based-computing/
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