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Michael Feldman
RAMCloud: When Disks and Flash Memory are Just Too Slow
Post Date: October 20, 2011 @ 6:44 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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Research project uses DRAM as the basis of datacenter storage..

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Another Computer Legend Passes Into the History Books
Post Date: October 13, 2011 @ 5:42 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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Dennis Ritchie, designer of the C language and co-developer of UNIX, dies at the age of 70.

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Steve Jobs: The Seymour Cray of Personal Computing
Post Date: October 06, 2011 @ 5:55 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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As these two computing pioneers demonstrated, one person can shape an entire industry.

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Flash Forward
Post Date: September 29, 2011 @ 6:21 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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Solid state storage vendors are making a frontal assault on the hard disk establishment in the datacenter.

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Intel Takes a Bite Out of NVIDIA's HPC Business
Post Date: September 22, 2011 @ 6:01 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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Manycore MIC coprocessors beat out GPUs in future NSF-funded supercomputer.

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Can Supercomputing Help Cure Health Care?
Post Date: September 15, 2011 @ 4:23 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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IBM Watson to start new job as WellPoint analyst.

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Newest Opteron CPU Headed for Big Supers
Post Date: September 09, 2011 @ 1:19 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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AMD starts shipping Interlagos chips in volume.

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Powering Up Exascale
Post Date: September 01, 2011 @ 8:45 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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It's not just about the megawatts.

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The Rise of the Thinking Machine
Post Date: August 25, 2011 @ 7:29 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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Brain-centric computing is having a pretty good year.

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IBM Reveals Cognitive Computing Chips
Post Date: August 18, 2011 @ 7:16 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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Researchers build circuitry based on workings of human brain.

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Exascale Computing: The View from Argonne

As a result of the dissolution of DARPA's UHPC program, the driving force behind exascale research in the US now resides with the Department of Energy, which has embarked upon a program to help develop this technology. To get a lab-centric view of the path to exascale, HPCwire asked a three of the top directors at Argonne National Laboratory -- Rick Stevens, Michael Papka, and Marc Snir -- to provide some context for the challenges and benefits of developing these extreme scale systems.
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TOP500 Gets Dressed Up with New Blue Genes

The 39th TOP500 list was released today at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, with a new machine at the top. Sequoia, an IBM Blue Gene/Q machine, delivered a world record 16 petaflops on Linpack, knocking RIKEN's 10-petaflop K Computer into second place. The Japanese K machine had held the TOP500 title for a year.
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Intel Will Ship Knights Corner Chip in 2012

On Monday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Intel announced that Knights Corner, the company's first manycore product, would be in production before the end of 2012. The company also released a few more details about the upcoming product line, including the creation of a new Xeon brand for the architecture, some performance updates on pre-production silicon, and Cray's adoption of MIC as part of its future Cascade supercomputer.
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