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China, AMD working on Opteron supercomputer
News China plans to create the world's third most powerful supercomputer, which will also be among the first such machines to use the Opteron processor from U.S. chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
NEC offers water cooling module for notebooks
News Japanese electronics firm NEC has announced a water-cooling system for notebooks, desktops and servers that promises less noise and a greater cooling power than standard air-cooling.
Laptops to "keep their cool"
News A researcher says he's created technology to disperse the heat generated within notebooks more efficiently than today's cooling systems.
Jaguar supercomputer races past Roadrunner in Top500
News Cray XT5 supercomputer known as "Jaguar" finally bests IBM after three tries. The top 10, while still dominated by supercomputers housed in the U.S., had just one newcomer.
Tags: Supercomputing, Teraflop, Cray Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Sandia National Laboratories, Computer, Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sun Microsystems Inc.
US labs virtualize 1 million Linux kernels
News Sandia National Labs have simultaneously run more than a million Linux kernels on a single cluster, an accomplishment that could prove useful for antibotnet research.
Tags: Linux, Virtualization, Virtual Machine, Kernel, computer, Linux Kernel, high-performance, network, researcher, Internet
New chip promises to track kids from miles away
News Radar-response technology developed for military tracks with extreme accuracy, even through walls and other obstacles.
Tags: RFID
Security firm raps FBI's Code Red response
News The security company that discovered the software hole exploited by the Code Red worm has launched an attack on the FBI for its reluctance to publicize the flaw.
Big Blue flexes supercomputing muscle
News IBM and the US federal government will unveil on Wednesday a system that ranks as the world's most powerful supercomputer.
U.S. lab to harness penguin power
News The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory intends to build the world's most powerful Linux supercomputer, for use with national security projects.
Intel pledges 80 cores in five years
News CEO Paul Otellini reveals plans at IDF to ship a "teraflop" processor around the end of decade with 80 cores.
Tags: Processors
HP creates off-the-shelf supercomputer
News Hewlett-Packard and a national laboratory in France add some network switches, Ethernet cabling and Linux software to some stripped-down PCs to create a new supercomputer.
IBM supercomputing goes retro
News Big Blue puts a new twist on an older technology. But will it steal thunder from the computing giant's other big machines?
Tags: Supercomputing
How Intel's supercomputer almost used HP chips
News In the 1990s, Intel seriously considered building the world's fastest supercomputer with a rival's processors, but the Pentium Pro arrived in time after all.
Tags: Personal Computers, Notebooks and tablets, Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp., Virtualization, Virtual Machine, Chip, Server, processor, supercomputer
InfiniBand could boost Linux supercomputing
News A group of companies bands together to bring the high-speed networking technology to the open-source OS.
Tiny computer lock simplifies security
News A 150-year-old invention combined with the latest silicon technology gives Sandia Labs an 'unbeatable' digital security device.
