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About Old Chestnuts and New Challenges

July 21, 2012, 3:06 p.m.

Intel invests heavily in Europe, AMD faces mounting problems, the entire industry pins its hope on Windows 8 and Apple promises the workstation community something really big – for later.

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Supercomputers – Prestige Objects or Crucial Tools for Science and Industry? (Paper)

July 20, 2012, 4:26 a.m.

This paper is the revised and extended version of the Lorraine King Memorial Lecture Hans Werner Meuer was invited by Lord Laird of Artigarvan to give at the House of Lords, London, on April 18, 2012.

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Lawrence Livermore’s Sequoia Supercomputer Towers above the Rest in Latest TOP500 List

July 16, 2012, 2:52 p.m.

MANNHEIM, Germany; BERKELEY, Calif.; and KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—For the first time since November 2009, a United States supercomputer sits atop the TOP500 list of the world’s top supercomputers. Named Sequoia, the IBM BlueGene/Q system installed at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved an impressive 16.32 petaflop/s on the Linpack benchmark using 1,572,864 cores.

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TOP10 November 2012

1 Titan - Cray XK7 , Opteron 6274 16C 2.200GHz, Cray Gemini interconnect, NVIDIA K20x
2 Sequoia - BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60 GHz, Custom
3 K computer, SPARC64 VIIIfx 2.0GHz, Tofu interconnect
4 Mira - BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60GHz, Custom
5 JUQUEEN - BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.600GHz, Custom Interconnect
6 SuperMUC - iDataPlex DX360M4, Xeon E5-2680 8C 2.70GHz, Infiniband FDR
7 Stampede - PowerEdge C8220, Xeon E5-2680 8C 2.700GHz, Infiniband FDR, Intel Xeon Phi
8 Tianhe-1A - NUDT YH MPP, Xeon X5670 6C 2.93 GHz, NVIDIA 2050
9 Fermi - BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60GHz, Custom
10 DARPA Trial Subset - Power 775, POWER7 8C 3.836GHz, Custom Interconnect

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