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POPSHow power-hungry are the Top500 supercomputers? But what might have surprised the authors of the list the most is that 301 of the 500 supercomputers on last November's list are nowhere to be seen. After seven months, they're simply not powerful enough to make the list. :-)
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POPSCheaper RAIDs for Supercomputing Applications? This new RAID adapter from Ciprico sounds promising, but I can't help by be annoyed at the fact that their 2.2 GB/s performance number doesn't say whether they're talking about reads, writes, or some combination of the two.
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POPSLearn Like A Human A very intriguing look at machine learning from the perspective that the human brain is the best model we have to emulate.
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POPSPS3 Supercomputing cluster 4x faster than IBM's BlueGene/L The article goes a little further and says, A standard PC working alone would take a day to simulate 1 billionth of a second of protein folding. But scientists believe that 10,000 idle PS3s can be four times faster than IBM's BlueGene/L System, which cranks out 280.6 trillion calculations per second.
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POPSGranularity for students Dammit, where was this article say, FIVE years ago? I have no choice but to adopt this as my new mantra to get me through the next week of intensive design and thesis.
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