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May 17 | News
In
a recent project that has challenged the notion that the best chip is
the most accurate one, a research team has unveiled this week its
prototype “inexact” computer chip. By allowing the chip to make a few
mistakes, developers were able to slash the power consumption of the
chip dramatically. The result is a chip at least 15 times more efficient
than today’s technology.
Apr 13 | News
Multicore
chips are common, but chips of the future are likely to have hundreds
or even thousands of cores. Software simulations will work up to a
point, but hardware models facilitated by programmable chips that won’t
get bogged down by resource requests will be required to test designs. A
new system to improve the efficiency of such model has been developed
by Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer scientists.
Apr 2 | News
The international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the world’s
largest and most sensitive radio telescope when it is built, and will
require the processing power of several million of today’s fastest
computers to collect the exabytes of data it will generate. IBM and the
Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) are embarking on a
five-year project to solve this data collection problem.
Mar 9 | News
For
the last decade or so, computer chip manufacturers have been increasing
the speed of their chips by giving them extra processing units, or
“cores.” But more cores means greater risks if new designs don’t work. A
new software-simulation system promises much more accurate evaluation
of promising—but potentially fault-ridden—multicore-chip designs.
11/17/2011 | News
Following
on the news that the Japanese K computer topped other high-performance
computers at the SC11 conference, the National Nuclear Security
Administration’s IBM Blue Gene/Q prototype has topped the Graph500, an
increasingly competitive ranking that stresses supercomputer performance
on “big data” scaling problems rather than purely arithmetic
computations.
11/16/2011 | News
After
topping both the June and November 2011 TOP500 fastest computers list,
RIKEN and Fujitsu’s “K” computer has bolstered its status as an
all-around performer but ranking at the top in all four benchmarks of
the 2011 HPC Challenge Awards at SC11 in Seattle.
11/15/2011 | News
The
University of Tennessee's National Institute for Computational Sciences
announced at the SC11 conference that it has entered a multi-year
strategic engagement with Intel Corporation to pursue development of
next-generation, high-performance computing solutions based on the
Intel’s Many Integrated Core architecture.
11/15/2011 | News
Researchers from North
Carolina State University are developing a 3D central
processing unit (CPU) with the goal of boosting energy efficiency by 15
to 25%.
The work is being done under a $1.5 million grant from the Intel
Corporation.
8/18/2011 | News
Today,
IBM researchers unveiled the company’s first neurosynaptic computing
chips, which are designed to emulate the phenomena between spiking
neurons and synapses in biological systems, such as the brain, through
advanced algorithms and silicon circuitry.
7/19/2011 | News
The
PC is still the backbone of the digital world, powering e-commerce and
social networking and selling more than a million examples per day. But
worldwide sales have slowed in recent years and the industry is looking
to foreign markets and handheld gadgets to shore up their profit
margins.
