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Titan supercomputer gets new 40-petabyte storage system
The world?s fastest supercomputer, Titan, located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, is deploying a new storage system from DataDirect Networks (DDN) to support its research into climate change impacts and alternative fuels.
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AMD Opteron processor update targets the cloud
To break its slump in the server market, Advanced Micro Devices is embarking on an aggressive strategy that calls for ARM and x86 chips by 2014 and continued improvements to its Opteron line in the meantime.
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Top500 supercomputer list has new leader in Titan Cray XK7
The US Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory's new Titan system, a Cray XK7, has been anointed as the world's fastest supercomputer in the newly released 40th edition of the Top500 compilation of the world's fastest supercomputers.
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AMD announces fastest 16-core Opteron 6300 server chips
With a future in ARM servers looming, Advanced Micro Devices on Monday announced its fastest 16-core Opteron 6300 server chips as the company continues to enhance its x86 chips.
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AMD poised to announce ARM-based server on Monday
AMD has called a press conference in San Francisco on October 29 where it's likely to announce plans for a SeaMicro server based on an upcoming 64-bit processor design from ARM.
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AMD buys SeaMicro and enters server hardware business
AMD announced yesterday it is buying low-power server vendor SeaMicro, a move that puts AMD in the systems business and disrupts Intel by acquiring one of its close partners.
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AMD replaces spinning drives with WhipTail flash storage
AMD?s System Optimisation Engineering Department has today announced plans to replace 480 of the 15K spinning drives in its datacentres with WhipTail solid-state storage arrays, in a bid to eliminate slow response times associated with traditional storage arrays.
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Japan K supercomputer cracks 10 petaflop performance barrier
Japan's K Computer has retained its pole position on the Top500 list of fastest supercomputers and become the first machine on the list to achieve performance of more than 10 petaflops.
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Cray building £62.3 million supercomputer for US
Cray was awarded a £62.3 million ($97 million) contract to build a supercomputer that could potentially deliver up to 20 petaflops of peak performance, or 20 quadrillion floating operations per second, to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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Cray XK6 supercomputer to use Nvidia GPU processors
The Cray Xk6 system will be the first to use Nvidia GPUs as co-processors.
