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Computers are getting smaller, hard drives are getting cheaper, and processors are getting faster — but that doesn't mean we no longer have computers so huge that they fill entire floors of a building. It just means …
Also tagged: technology, computers, cory doctorow, mega computers, morning reading
hackaday.com » Hack a Day - Sep 5, 2008
[Cory Doctorow] obtained access to a few data centers that deal in petabyte storage. The demand for data storage and processing doesn’t show any sign of stopping. It’s especially relevant when people need the resources …
Also tagged: news, data, storage, computers, cory doctorow, cern, data centers, petacenter
gadgettastic.com » gadgettastic.com - Sep 5, 2008
If you’ve been thinking that those dual-core or quad-core processors of the servers in your office are super powerful, you’ll get a shock after hearing how many cores that the processor of the Blue Waters has… 200,000 …
Also tagged: memory, storage, waters, system, the, mass, biology, speed, power, high, blue, future tech, and, 10, a, molecular, processing, super, supercomputer, disk, sun s, ejections, sustained, system the, petascale, university of illinois at urbana, blue waters, simulating, coronal, 2 petaflops, a petabyte 1015 bytes, computational, petascale the
gizmodo.com » Gizmodo - Sep 4, 2008
Recently green-lit to be built at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IBM's future Blue Waters supercomputer is peta'd all over. It'll have up to 2-petaflops processing speed, more than a petabyte of memory …
Also tagged: science, computers, simulation, supercomputers, petaflop, urbana, national laboratory, ibm blue waters
networkworld.com » NetworkWorld.com Community - - Aug 25, 2008
I'd been a database industry analyst for a decade before I found 1-gigabyte databases to write about. Now it's 15 years later, and the 1-petabyte barrier is crumbling. Specifically, we're about to see data warehouses …
Also tagged: database, software, yahoo, data warehouse, sas, data center, datallegro, netezza, teradata, greenplum, dataupia
retecool.com » The Amazing Retecool 8.0 - Jun 25, 2008
Also tagged: google, terrabyte, megabyte, rijst uitleg, kilobyte, grootte