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MareNostrum, is the most powerful supercomputer in Europe, which is installed in a former chapel at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). It was presented by IBM and MarÃa Jesús San Segundo, the Spanish Minister of Education and Science. The supercomputer consists of 2560 JS21 blade computing nodes, each with 2 dual-core IBM 64-bit PowerPC 970MP processors running at 2.3 GHz for 10240 CPUs in total.
MareNostrum's Myrinet interconnect fabric requires four cabinets. Myricom did a nice job of reducing the cable count as much as they...
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IBM alongside Mayo Clinic, has been working on implementing the Cell Chip in medical imaging software to speed up object recognition and increase image precision that is derived from multiple data sources.
Collaborators from Mayo Clinic and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have exploited parallel computer architecture and memory bandwidth to dramatically speed up the processing of 3-D medical images. The advance significantly aids image registration -- the computer-enhanced alignment of two medical images obtained at different dates or by using different...
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IBM has begun to distribute it’s new line of high-powered QS20 Blade Servers based on the same Cell Processor that will be used in the upcoming PS3.
Today IBM announced a new line of high-powered QS20 Blade Servers intended for use in seismic research, encryption, digital image rendering and military surveillance applications. Each QS20 will include two nine-cored Cell Processors clocked at 3.2Ghz apiece, which were developed by IBM along with Sony and Toshiba for Sony’s upcoming Playstation 3 console, among other things. Toshiba will...
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Linux’ biggest corporate backer is vowing to push its open-source efforts beyond Linux. Big Blue on Tuesday touted plans to pursue new open-source business models that it hopes will usher in a new era.
At LinuxWorld, IBM said it plans to launch eight open-source initiatives. The computing giant already has a dedicated army of 600 engineers at its Linux technology center. As a result, it’s no secret that IBM has been a heavyweight Linux supporter.
IBM backed Linux early on with a commitment to spend $1 billion in 2001, a move that...
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One future hurdle is the silicon chip that is the brain of these machines. Already engineers are reaching the physical limits of how many circuits they can cram onto a slice of silicon, though chip makers are experimenting with new technologies and materials for the next generation of microprocessors.
After nearly four years in development and $9 million spent, the Riken machine is the first ever to accomplish the feat. It's nearly three times swifter than BlueGene/L, the official No. 1 in an industry ranking called the Top 500...
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