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Parallel programming tool offered for Cell processor
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| The Offload parallel programming tool
| suite from Codeplay Software Ltd. is now
| available for all programmers developing
| software to run under Linux on the Cell
| Broadband Engine processor.
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http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=223100965
IBM Launches New POWER7 System
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| The POWER7, like other IBM power systems
| which run on the AIX, Linux and IBM i
| operating systems, is aimed to help
| clients manage their current applications
| and services at less cost, more energy
| savings, and with cost-efficient use of
| memory and better performance, IBM said.
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http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsbusiness.php?id=479120
Fixstars Launches Linux for CUDA
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| Multicore software specialist Fixstars
| Corporation has released Yellow Dog
| Enterprise Linux (YDEL) for CUDA, the
| first commercial Linux distribution for
| GPU computing. The OS is aimed at HPC
| customers using NVIDIA GPU hardware to
| accelerate their vanilla Linux clusters,
| and is designed to lower the overall cost
| of system deployment, the idea being to
| bring these still-exotic systems into the
| mainstream.
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http://www.hpcwire.com/features/Fixstars-Launches-Linux-for-CUDA-86044987.html
Russia invests in supercomputers
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| Russia launched its fastest supercomputer,
| Lomonosov, at the Moscow State
| University's Research Computing Center in
| 2004. With the peak speed of 420TFLOPS, it
| is still ranked 12th in the Top500 list of
| the world's fastest computers.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1594529/russia-invests-supercomputers
Recent:
Linux rulz: Top500 says so
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| Todayâs release of the list of the top 500
| supercomputers shows that well over 90% are
| running Linux. Also, IBMâs Roadrunner has
| finally been dethroned; in a big way!
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http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29362&Itemid=53
Linux dominates top 500 supercomputer list
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| The latest Top 500 Supercomputer list is
| now out (see my colleague Andy Patrizio's
| story on InternetNews.com), with the top
| rig doubling its performance to 1.75
| petaflops.
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/linux-dominates-top-500-superc.html
Jaguar supercomputer races past Roadrunner in Top500
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| The most popular operating system is Linux,
| with 90 percent of the Top500.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10397627-92.html
China joins supercomputer elite
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| The IBM computer is owned by the Department
| of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory
| in New Mexico and was the first machine to
| push through the petaflop barrier.
|
| It is currently able to run at 1.042 petaflops and uses the powerful
| "cell" chip designed for the PlayStation 3.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8362825.stm
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