Stories about: SGI

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    Vendors pitch stripped-down servers to giant Web properties 11/06/2009 08:02:00

    The explosion of giant Web properties has server vendors building a new kind of machine that is stripped down to the bare essentials and optimized for cost- and energy-efficiency, analysts say.
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    HP designs new server for 'extreme' scale-out computing 10/06/2009 21:49:00

    Hewlett-Packard has introduced a new line of x86 servers for companies that operate massive computing facilities, where shaving a few dollars off the energy or shipping costs for each system can add up to significant savings.
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    Rackable Systems becomes SGI, closes deal 12/05/2009 04:20:00

    Rackable Systems has completed its acquisition of Silicon Graphics and will change the name of the combined company to SGI, Rackable announced Monday. It hopes the name change helps it expand its business overseas, where SGI is a better-known brand.
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    Rackable buying SGI for $25 million 02/04/2009 06:04:00

    Rackable Systems said Wednesday it plans to buy the assets of bankrupt Silicon Graphics (SGI) for roughly US$25 million in cash and will also assume certain liabilities.
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    IBM supercomputers rated most energy efficient 25/11/2008 10:32:00

    Supercomputers from IBM are more energy efficient than supercomputing iron from rival vendors, according to latest research from The Green500.org.
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    Top 500 supercomputers: Welcome to the petaflop generation 19/06/2008 10:22:59

    Welcome to the petaflop generation. That was the message as the new most powerful supercomputer in the world IBM's $100,000 million Roadrunner system installed at the US Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory was officially named the most powerful and energy efficient supercomputer in the world.
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    Los Alamos: Roadrunner as important as first computer 17/06/2008 07:47:48

    A research director at Los Alamos National Laboratories said the addition of a peta-scale supercomputer is as big a leap forward as when scientists got their hands on their first computer ever.
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    IBM set to test the fastest computer in the world 14/05/2008 08:10:06

    Engineers and technicians at IBM are assembling the final pieces of what they hope will soon become the world's most powerful supercomputer - doubling the speed of the today's fastest machine.
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    NASA's new supercomputer aims for 10 petaflops by 2012 09/05/2008 08:01:03

    SGI and Intel are teaming up to build a supercomputer for NASA that they expect will pass the petaflop barrier next year and hit 10 petaflops by 2012. A petaflop is 1,000 trillion calculations per second.
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    Debian Linux cluster beats supercomputer in tsunami warnings 13/03/2008 14:23:13

    The Philippine government's official weather service, PAGASA, has replaced its SGI supercomputer with a clustered Debian Linux system that can process information vital to protection against typhoons, floods, droughts, tsunamis and other wild weather conditions at a fraction of the cost.
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    Storage built for HPC speed 19/11/2007 07:11:27

    When it comes to talking about performance, speed turns people's heads. Bring up racing cars in a room full of folks discussing sedans and pickup trucks, and you'll see what I mean.
 
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