A Supercomputer For Africa
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| The computer giant announced Tuesday it will donate one of its BlueGene/P
| supercomputers to the Center for High Performance Computing in Cape Town,
| South Africa. The computer will be hosted by the Meraka Institute, which will
| lend it to universities and governments in need of its massive processing
| abilities. The machine, which is capable of performing 14 trillion individual
| calculations per second, is five times more powerful than the fastest
| computer currently on the continent.
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http://www.forbes.com/technology/enterprisetech/2007/12/04/ibm-africa-computer-tech-cx_ag_1204techibm.html
IBM researchers build supercomputer-on-a-chip
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| In addition to IBM, there are a couple of start-up companies and labs in the
| U.S. that are working on silicon nanophotonics technology, Green said. The
| IBM project was funded partly by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
| (DARPA), a division of the U.S. Department of Defense.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071206/tc_infoworld/93864
That could transform the role of the desktop and take advantage of Linux's
considerable advantage in HPC. It was actually Gates' vision that everyone
would have a 'supercomputer' on the desk (no, not for Vista).
Related:
Linux in more than 90% of top supercomputers
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| Other operating systems, such as AIX (4.8%), Solaris (0.4%) and Mac OS X
| (0.4%) make the list, but Linux is alone at the top, where it is used in 459
| systems or 91.8% of the top supercomputer systems.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/11/15/linux-in-more-than-90-of-top-supercomputers/
http://tinyurl.com/2rponk
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