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COSMOS, an SGI supercomputer, is installed at the University of Cambridge, becomes Europe's most powerful shared-memory supercomputer.
Pleiades, installed at NASA Advanced Supercomputing, upgraded with Intel Xeon E5 CPUs, reaches 1.24 PFlop/s on Linpack.
Cascade, a 2 PFlop/s Cray supercomputer based on Intel Xeon CPUs will be installed at National Energy Research Scientific Center.
Sequoia, an IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, becomes world's most powerful supercomputer, reaches 16.32 PFlop/s on Linpack.
Some statistics from 39th edition of Top500, the list of world's most powerful supercomputers.
New edition of Graph500 list announced.
39th edition of Top500, the list of world's most powerful supercomputers, is announced.
SuperMUC, a 3 PFlop/s IBM supercomputer based on Intel Xeon CPUs, installed at Leibniz Supercomputing Centre.
Blue Joule, a 1 PFlop/s IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer, installed at Science and Technology Facilities Council, Great Britain.
India uses SAGA, a 394 TFlop/s supercomputer, to develop its space program.
News of parallel computing world Submission deadline for 17th edition of Top50 list of the most powerful CIS supercomputers is September 1st, 2012. Top50 17th edition will be announced in the first day of International supercomputing conference "Scientific services and the Internet: in search of new solutions". Joint MSU-Intel Center
Computers with reconfigurable architecture
All-Russian supercomputing forum "Supercomputing technologies in education, science, and industry" will be held November 20th through 28th in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
Graphics processors for HPC
Intel and Skolkovo Innovation Center Development fund announce research and development competition "Computing Continuum: from idea to implementation".
The preliminary stage of the competition, for young specialists and students, is over.
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