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Lifeline for Moore’s Law – Intel announces 7nm process

Posted on July 10, 2015 by Brett

IBM, in partnership with GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung at SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (SUNY Poly CNSE) have announced the first functional 7nm chips. This required two firsts – using silicon germanium (SiGe) as the channel material … Continue reading →

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India’s $730million supercomputing mission

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Brett

The Indian government has approved a seven-year supercomputing program worth $730, to revitalize the nation’s status as a world-class computing power. India currently has nine systems on the Top500 list. Its current top system, a 719-teraflops IBM/Lenovo iDataPlex installed at the … Continue reading →

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The Square Kilometer Array: Designing software for HPC that doesn’t exist yet

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Brett

The Register just published a story on the Square Kilometer Array, which focuses on building a project for hardware that doesn’t exist yet, and designing software now for that hardware. The project estimates that they’ll need ~100PFlops/s of raw processing … Continue reading →

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China’s Top 100 HPC List published in English

Posted on May 10, 2015 by Brett

The latest China Top 100 HPC List has been released in English through www.top500.org. This is a welcome addition to the small number of country and region-specific lists which now number four, including the Irish list: Commonwealth of Independent States … Continue reading →

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PRACE Scientific and Industrial Conference – Dublin May 2015

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Brett

The PRACE Scientific and Industrial Conference 2015 (PRACEdays15) will be held in Dublin, at the Aviva Stadium, from 26 to 28 May 2015, under the motto: Enable Science Foster Industry The conference programme, registration and more is available at: http://www.prace-ri.eu/pracedays15/

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Horst Simon on the slowdown of HPC, Moore’s Law and Parallelism

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Brett

On Feb 12, Horst Simon, Deputy Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a maintainer of the Top500 List gave a talk arguing that Moore’s law and parallelism can no longer be counted on to provide the exceptional growth that has … Continue reading →

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Irish Supercomputer List Presentation at Dell HPC Summit

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Brett

Today the Irish Supercomputer List presented “Where is Ireland in the Global HPC Arena? …and what are we doing there?” at the Dell HPC Summit, hosted today at the Dunsink Observatory. The talk presented the current state of High Performance Computing … Continue reading →

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Third Irish Supercomputer List released

Posted on November 28, 2014 by Brett

The third Irish Supercomputer List was released today, and for the first time we have entrants from Northern Ireland. Queen’s University Belfast has two machines on the list,  at positions 13 and 23. University College Dublin also has two new … Continue reading →

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Northern Ireland launches £1.1million Fujitsu supercomputing service

Posted on October 19, 2014 by Brett

In the first project of its kind in Northern Ireland, Fujitsu has invested £1.1million in a new High Performance Computing service to support the development of the local knowledge economy, particularly small and medium sized enterprises. The powerful technology can … Continue reading →

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Supercomputers make discoveries that scientists can’t

Posted on August 29, 2014 by Brett

There are many articles out there on the applications of HPC. This one is different. Hal Hodson of the New Scientist takes a look at HPC making discoveries that “scientists can’t”. At this point I would like to make two … Continue reading →

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