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Supercomputer sets petaflop pace
(Jun 9, 2008)
A supercomputer built with components designed for the Sony PlayStation
3 has set a new computing milestone. The IBM machine, codenamed Roadrunner,
has been shown to run at "petaflop speeds", the equivalent of one
thousand trillion calculations per second. The benchmark means the
computer is twice as nimble as the current world's fastest machine
(shown here), also built by IBM.
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more. Source: BBC |
Google to get new space age home
(Jun 7, 2008)
Google is to get a new home after signing a 40-year lease to build
a high-tech campus on land owned by NASA. The 1.2m sq ft site will
include a huge office complex, and research and development facilities.
The search giant will pay an initial base rent of $3.66m a year for
the undeveloped land at the NASA Ames
Research Center in Mountain View.
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more. Source: BBC |
Microsoft demos 'touch Windows'
(May 28, 2008)
Microsoft's next operating system (OS) will come with multi-touch
features as an alternative to the mouse. It is hoped the successor
will have a better reception than the much-maligned Vista OS, released
last year. Scheduled for release in 2009 the new fingertip interface
lets users enlarge and shrink photos, trace routes on maps, paint
pictures or play the piano.
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more. Source: BBC |
Laser heats up the fusion future
(May 19, 2008)
The world's most powerful laser has heated matter to 10 million Celsius,
hotter than the surface of the Sun. The Vulcan laser concentrated
energy equivalent to 100 times the world's electricity production
into a spot just a few millionths of a metre across. Writing in the
New Journal of Physics, scientists said they could create the conditions
for fractions of a second.
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more. Source: BBC |
NASA, Intel, SGI plan to 'soup up' supercomputer
(May 8, 2008)
NASA, Intel Corp., and SGI today announced the signing of an agreement
establishing intentions to collaborate on significantly increasing
the space agency's supercomputer performance and capacity. These organizations
will work together on a project called Pleiades to develop a computational
system with a capacity of one Petaflops peak performance (1,000 trillion
operations per second) by 2009 and a system with a peak performance
of 10 Petaflops (10,000 trillion operations per second) by 2012.
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more. Source: NASA |
Electronics' 'missing link' found
(May 1, 2008)
Details of an entirely new kind of electronic device, which could
make chips smaller and far more efficient, have been outlined by scientists.
The new components, described by scientists at Hewlett-Packard, are
known as "memristors". The devices were proposed 40 years ago but
have only recently been fabricated, the team wrote in the journal
Nature.
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more. Source: BBC |
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