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Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 9 2011) Supercomputer

...cabinets will be water-cooled. The National Science Foundation’s Blue Waters project was awarded to Cray last month after NCSA and IBM terminated the original contract last summer. Dell’s HPC Strategy. The Register reports on ho... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   National Science Foundation   Facebook   IBM

NCSA Blue Waters Project Awarded To Cray

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Nov 15 2011) Supercomputer

NCSA and Cray announced that they have finalized a contract with the University of Illinois’ National Center for ......he supercomputer for the National Science Foundation’s Blue Waters project. Back in August NCSA and IBM jointly announced that IBM has terminated its contract with the University of Illinois. The Blue Waters Infrastructure ... (Read Full Article)

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AMD's big new number: 16 cores for your server

Explore Technology News (Nov 14 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

... per CPU for up to 384GB memory per CPU. The new Opterons hit the market with good support from HP, Cray, AMAX, IBM and Dell. ZDNet UK reviewed the Dell server based on the 16-core AMD Opteron. AMD also outlined a n... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   IBM   ZDNet UK

IBM Pulls the Plug on Blue Waters

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 9 2011)

...he cabinet and placing a solution in the facility that will best optimize the infrastructure. IBM could still pull through with an alternative system, but SGI, Cray, HP, Dell and others are surely available options as well. (Read Full Article)

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Sensing the Future of Greener Data Centers

Explore Scientific Computing (Jan 10 2011) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Servers

...more careful monitoring of airflow and temperature. For example, a NERSC team recently installed an IBM iDataplex system in a manner so efficient that, in some cases, the cluster can cool the air around ...... setting row pitch at five feet, rather than the standard six feet, and reusing the water exiting a Cray XT4, the team reduced cooling costs by half and used a third less floor space than an ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Department of Energy

Biggest Problem for Exascale Computing: Power

Explore Reuters.com (Dec 13 2010) Wind , Supercomputer

... The IMEC project manager says the goal is to cut that 7 GW down to 50 MW — clearly a massive drop. IBM VP of Deep Computing David Turek, told Stacey that when supercomputers are built at the exascale le......The Real Reason Google Is Buying Wind Power * Green Data Center Design Strategies Image courtesy of Cray. We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. W... (Read Full Article)

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Do SuperComputers Turn a Green Data Center Gray? By Doug Maloney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Dec 11 2009) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Supercomputer

...somewhere to go, which requires cooling and more dollars to the power bill. Exhibit A for this is IBM's Blue Waters supercomputer being built at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus, as r......    There's something a little disturbing about putting the fastest supercomputer in the world – a Cray X5-HE operated by Oak Ridge National Laboratory – as the 44th most "Green" when it consumes 6950.6 ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Doug Mohney   Oak Ridge National Laboratory   IBM