News tagged with petaflops
FLOPS
In computing, FLOPS (or flops or flop/s, for floating-point operations per second) is a measure of a computer's performance, especially in fields of scientific calculations that make heavy use of floating-point calculations, similar to the older, simpler, instructions per second. Since the final S stands for "second", conservative speakers consider "FLOPS" as both the singular and plural of the term, although the singular "FLOP" is frequently encountered. Alternatively, the singular FLOP (or flop) is used as an abbreviation for "FLoating-point OPeration", and a flop count is a count of these operations (e.g., required by a given algorithm or computer program). In this context, "flops" is simply the plural rather than a rate.
Although it is in common use, FLOPS is not an SI unit. The expression 1 flops is actually interpreted as .
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Cray replaces IBM on U. of Illinois supercomputer
The University of Illinois says Seattle-based Cray Inc. will take over construction of the stalled $300 million Blue Waters supercomputer project, three months after IBM pulled out citing cost and technical concerns.
Nov 14, 2011 |
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Japanese supercomputer becomes world's fastest (Update)
A Japanese supercomputer has become the fastest in the world, making calculations more than three times faster than a Chinese rival, its developers said Monday.
Jun 20, 2011 |
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20 petaflops: New supercomputer for Oak Ridge facility to regain speed lead over the Chinese
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) campus in Oak Ridge Tennessee will soon play host once again to the fastest computer in the world (barring any new sudden announcements by the Chinese). ...
Mar 23, 2011 |
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Building gasifiers via simulation
A team of scientists from the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is using Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL's) Jaguar supercomputer, located at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 13, 2011 |
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NICS to add more than 300 Teraflops to the NSF’s computing capacity
With twin awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF) totaling $3.4 million, the University of Tennessee-managed National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) will add 300 teraflops to the TeraGrid's ...
Aug 25, 2010 |
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China boasts world's second-fastest supercomputer
China's ambitions to become a major global power in the world of supercomputing were given a boost when one of its machines was ranked second-fastest in a survey.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 01, 2010 |
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Computational Science Programming Model Crosses the Petaflop Barrier
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated that the PNNL-developed Global Arrays computational programming model can perform at ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 12, 2010 |
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Kraken becomes first academic machine to achieve petaflop
The National Institute for Computational Sciences' (NICS's) Cray XT5 supercomputer—Kraken—has been upgraded to become the first academic system to surpass a thousand trillion calculations a second, or one ...
Oct 08, 2009 |
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IBM To Build Supercomputer For U.S. Government
(PhysOrg.com) -- The U.S. Government has contracted out IBM to build a massive supercomputer bigger than any supercomputer out there. The supercomputer system, called Sequoia, will be capable of delivering ...
Feb 03, 2009 |
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