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In 2016, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a $30 million award to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin to acquire and deploy a new large scale supercomputing system, Stampede 2, as a strategic national resource to provide high-performance computing capabilities for thousands of researchers across the U.S.
Richard L. Hudson, CEO & Editor, Science|Business
9 September 2013, Brussels
Through years of steady investment and research, high performance computing in Europe has started paying returns to many parts of the economy - aerospace, pharmaceuticals, energy, automotive, the environment and climate research. But the best could be yet to come, as computing powers worldwide jump upwards and HPC becomes an essential tool for competitiveness across the European economy. In short, supercomputers will be for all, no longer a few.
I believe this five year old boy was really a new Disney Animatron connected to a computer somewhere nearby. Or he could be in the bloodline of Sun Tzu, either way the IBM Supercomputer better watch out. It was hard to believe what I was seeing, he was a challenge to a few good players and even beat one of the regulars. Amazing strategy and logic at five.
Konstantinos Glinos, Head of Unit for eInfrastructure, DG Connect, European Commission
9 September 2013, Brussels
Through years of steady investment and research, high performance computing in Europe has started paying returns to many parts of the economy - aerospace, pharmaceuticals, energy, automotive, the environment and climate research. But the best could be yet to come, as computing powers worldwide jump upwards and HPC becomes an essential tool for competitiveness across the European economy. In short, supercomputers will be for all, no longer a few.
Speed comparison:
iPhone 4: 1.6 GFLOPS
Cray-2: 1.9 GFLOPS
iPhone 7: 300 GFLOPS (160 times as fast)
Musée des Arts et Métiers
Unidad de refrigeración del Cray Y-MP.
Museo de equipos antiguos del CESCA.
Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya
Centro de Servicios Científicos y Académicos de Cataluña.
Yeah, it dwarfs my MacBook Air there on the left :D
✔Processor: 3.4GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
✔Memory: 16GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM
✔Storage: 2TB Serial ATA Drive + 256GB Solid State Drive
✔Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2GB GDDR5
✔Display: 27-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen TFT display
I’m sure it’s faster than the fastest Mac Macworld has tested ;-)
Camera: iPhone 4;
This is a blade full of FPGA, which are processors. Unlike CPU in your computer that can do anything you want, those FPGAs can handle just one thing, but can do it extremely fast.
IBM 1311 (1962) and a disk platter for an Illiac IV supercomputer (1974). The platter is 10 MB capacity. On display in the platter's center is a tiny 1 GB microdrive..
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Olorunsola Akinsulire ’18, Haripriya Mehta ’20, Andrea Blankenship ’18 visited the supercomputer Argonne National Laboratory.
Peter Hotham, Deputy Director of Operations & Programme, SESAR Joint Undertaking
9 September 2013, Brussels
Through years of steady investment and research, high performance computing in Europe has started paying returns to many parts of the economy - aerospace, pharmaceuticals, energy, automotive, the environment and climate research. But the best could be yet to come, as computing powers worldwide jump upwards and HPC becomes an essential tool for competitiveness across the European economy. In short, supercomputers will be for all, no longer a few.
Supercomputers reveal a pattern of warming and cooling
Using the NCAR-based Community Climate System Model, a powerful computer tool for studying worldwide climate, the researchers compared the responses of ice age climate to conditions in the Bering Strait. They ran the model on new supercomputers at NCAR and the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, enabling them to focus on smaller-scale geographic features that, until recently, could not be captured in long-term simulations of global climate.
The simulations accounted for the changes in sea level, revealing a recurring pattern-each time playing out over several thousand years-in which the reopening and closing of the strait had a far-reaching impact on ocean currents and ice sheets.
As the climate cooled because of changes in Earth's orbit, northern ice sheets expanded. This caused sea levels to drop worldwide, forming a land bridge from Asia to North America and nearly closing the Bering Strait.
With the flow of relatively fresh water from the Pacific to the Atlantic choked off, the Atlantic grew more saline. The saltier and heavier water led to an intensification of the Atlantic's meridional overturning circulation, a current of rising and sinking water that, like a conveyor belt, pumps warmer water northward from the tropics.
This circulation warmed Greenland and parts of North America by about 3 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius)-enough to reverse the advance of ice sheets in those regions and reduce their height by almost 400 feet (112 meters) every thousand years. Although the Pacific cooled by an equivalent amount, it did not have vast ice sheets that could be affected by the change in climate.
Over thousands of years, the Greenland and North American ice sheets melted enough to raise sea levels and reopen the Bering Strait.
The new inflow of fresher water from the Pacific weakened the meridional overturning circulation, allowing North America and Greenland to cool over time. The ice sheets resumed their advance, sea levels dropped, the Bering Strait again mostly closed, and the entire cycle was repeated.
The combination of the ocean circulation and the size of the ice sheets-which exerted a cooling effect by reflecting sunlight back into space-affected climate throughout the world. The computer simulations showed that North America and Eurasia warmed significantly during the times when the Bering Strait was open, with the tropical and subtropical Indian and Pacific Oceans, as well as Antarctica, warming slightly.
The front display panel for status monitoring on the front of the Cray CX1. Apologies for low-res from my cellphone!
The CDC 6600 is generally considered to be the first successful supercomputer, outperforming its fastest predecessor, the IBM 7030 Stretch, by about a factor of three.
BU Director of Scientific Computing and Visualization Glenn Bresnahan, left, and computer science professor Steve Homer checking out the university's new supercomputer. Photo: by Mark Baard
CDC 160A
1962
Control Data Corporation, United States
Supercomputer pioneer Seymour Cray once claimed that he needed only one week to design this stand-alone version of his earlier CDC 160. The CDC 160A was often used for dedicated production control applications such as operating typesetting machines and mechanical lathes. It came with a high-speed paper-tape reader, paper tape punch, and a typewriter. A FORTRAN compiler was also available for those who wanted to write their own programs.
Memory Type: Core Speed: 78,125 Add/s
Memory Size: 32K Cost: $110,000
Memory Width: (12-bit)
Konstantinos Glinos, Head of Unit for eInfrastructure, DG Connect, European Commission
9 September 2013, Brussels
Through years of steady investment and research, high performance computing in Europe has started paying returns to many parts of the economy - aerospace, pharmaceuticals, energy, automotive, the environment and climate research. But the best could be yet to come, as computing powers worldwide jump upwards and HPC becomes an essential tool for competitiveness across the European economy. In short, supercomputers will be for all, no longer a few.
The white SATA connectors at bottom left are the 6GBps SATA3 type, The blue are SATA2 3GBps. The Power Color video cards take up the four empty slots at the top of the case and although i did a dry fit they will be installed later on. i am still waiting on some cables that have to go in before they do.