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IBM Supercomputer Dual Boots Windows and Linux

Posted by Dave W
June 17, 2008

IBM has built the biggest ever dual-boot Windows/Linux HPC system for a consortium of Swedish research groups and universities.
The record-chasing firm will apparently unveil its 5,376 Intel Xeon quad-core processor blade system later on today. Computer World claims the system is able to reach an impressive 46 sustained teraflops on a beta version of Windows [...]

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IBM Cools 3-D Chips With Water

Posted by Dave W
June 6, 2008

In IBM’s labs, tiny rivers of water are cooling computer chips that have circuits and components stacked on top of each other, a design that promises to advance Moore’s Law in the next decade and significantly reduce energy consumed by data centers. IBM Researchers, in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin, demonstrated a prototype [...]

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IBM Unveils Energy-Efficient Servers Powered by Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors

Posted by Dave W
May 29, 2008

AMD has announced growing industry support for the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor among global OEMs continues with IBM’s launch of three updated System x servers. Designed to address customer priorities such as energy efficiency, performance, scalability, and virtualization, the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based servers from IBM offer an exceptional power-efficient platform for today’s most demanding [...]

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IBM Unveils Water-Cooled Supercomputer

Posted by Dave W
May 13, 2008

IBM has delivered the first of its new range of ‘Bluefire’ water-cooled supercomputers.
The Power 575 Hydro-Cluster will be installed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado.
Water-cooled copper plates are placed on each of the supercomputer’s 4,064 Power6 processors, and IBM claims that the system is roughly 33 per cent more energy [...]