A super-eruption of an Italian volcano that may have played a major role in the Neanderthals' fate was apparently even larger than thought, new research suggests.
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TigerDirect TV: Tech Juice June 18, 2012 – Video
18-06-2012 09:48 Happy Monday on Tech Juice from TigerDirect TV! Yendi gets in on the new Windows 8 Tablet story and the US is now home to the world's fastest SuperComputer from IBM. Yendi is pumped about her Miami Heat! Always get the greatest deal at TigerDirect.
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Microsoft unveils iPad-competitor 'Surface' tablet computer
Washington, June 19 (ANI): Software giant Microsoft has finally unveiled its much-awaited tablet computer that aims to challenge the dominance of the Apple iPad.
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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and TT Games Celebrate the Launch of LEGO® Batman™ 2: DC Super Heroes
BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Batman and his super hero friends are back to save the day! Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and TT Games today announced that the highly-anticipated LEGO Batman2: DC Super Heroes is now available in North America for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation3 computer entertainment system, the Wii system, and Windows PC, as well as the Nintendo DS handheld system, Nintendo 3DS handheld system, and PlayStationVita handheld entertainment system.
The acclaimed and award-winning LEGOBatman2: DC Super Heroes is the must-have sequel to the best-selling LEGOBatman: The Videogame, which to date has sold more than 11 million units worldwide. In LEGOBatman2: DC Super Heroes, kids and gamers of all ages team up with Batman and Robin and their favorite DC Comics super heroes like Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and The Flash in an original LEGO adventure. Many of the scenes and characters featured in LEGOBatman2: DC Super Heroes can also be found in the LEGO DC Universe Super Heroes toy collection, which was introduced earlier this year. The toy line includes five construction sets, such as The Batcave and three buildable, detailed action figures.
Fans of all ages are in for a real comical treat with LEGOBatman2: DC Super Heroes, as the game brings iconic DC Comics characters to life in a brand new story set in a massive open-world Gotham City, said Tom Stone, Managing Director, TT Games. The game delivers a fun-filled LEGO adventure never seen before with talking LEGO minifigures and unique elements such as flying through Gotham City as Superman.
In LEGOBatman2: DC Super Heroes, players take on the role of the Caped Crusader, Boy Wonder and other DC Comics super heroes as they unite to thwart the plans of nefarious evildoers Lex Luthor and The Joker in their diabolical quest to cause destruction and mayhem. Players are put in control of exciting new super abilities such as heat vision, freeze-breath and free-roaming flight, which they can use to explore a vast new Gotham City full of hidden secrets, collectible LEGO bricks and vehicles to drive and fly. The console games feature easy drop-in/drop-out co-op with dynamic split screen, giving family members of all ages a chance to take part in the action-packed LEGO adventure. The handheld games include a Justice League Alliance game mode, a set of battle challenges which pits the entire Justice League against the most evil villains in the DC Universe.
Developed by TT Games, LEGOBatman2: DC Super Heroes is available for Xbox 360 and PS3 for the suggested retail price of $49.99, for Wii, PSVita, and Nintendo 3DS for the suggested retail price of $39.99, and for Nintendo DS and Windows PC for the suggested retail price of $29.99. The game is also scheduled to be available on the Mac in August 2012 for the suggested retail price of $29.99. LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes is rated E10+ for Everyone 10 and older by the ESRB and complements the LEGO DC Universe Super Heroes toy collection.
For more information, please visit http://www.videogames.LEGO.com.
About TT Games
TT Games, wholly owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment Group, is the combined publishing and development group behind the hit games LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Batman, LEGO Indiana Jones, LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean and LEGO Harry Potter. Incorporating renowned UK developer Travellers Tales, TT Games has a distinctive focus on console, handheld, mobile and PC games of the highest quality, aimed at young gamers and their families. For more information, please visitwww.ttgames.com.
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6-17-12 Update + My Super Computer Parts Unboxing! – Video
17-06-2012 21:22 Sorry guys! Didn't have time to make videos, I'll be getting some videos out on the weekdays to make up for it! Like, Comment, Subscribe!
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SuperMUC: First Commercial Hot-Water Cooled Supercomputer to Consume 40% Less Energy – Video
18-06-2012 02:08 The Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ), in collaboration with IBM, today announced the world's first commercially available hot-water cooled supercomputer, a powerful, high-performance system designed to help researchers and industrial institutions across Europe investigate and solve some of the world's most daunting scientific challenges. The new LRZ "SuperMUC" system was built with IBM System x iDataPlex Direct Water Cooled dx360 M4 servers with more than 150000 cores to provide a peak performance of up to three petaflops, which is equivalent to the work of more than 110000 personal computers. Put another way, three billion people using a pocket calculator would have to perform one million operations per second each to reach equivalent SuperMUC performance. Also, a revolutionary new form of hot-water cooling technology invented by IBM allows the system to be built 10 times more compact and substantially improve its peak performance while consuming 40 percent less energy than a comparable air-cooled machine.
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IBM’s Sequoia Grabs Top Spot in Supercomputer Rankings – Video
18-06-2012 10:56 IBM's Sequoia supercomputer is currently the fastest computer in the world. This is the first time in two-years the title has gone to an American computer. For more tech news subscribe to NewsyTech:
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IBM's Sequoia Grabs Top Spot in Supercomputer Rankings - Video
IBM Sequoia: US reclaims top spot for world's fastest supercomputer from China's Fujitsu K
IBM's 'Sequoia' beats Japan's 'K machine', running 1.55 times faster while being 15 per cent more energy efficient Computer - which is nearly 300,00 times faster than machines from 20 years ago - will be used for nuclear studies
By Eddie Wrenn
PUBLISHED: 12:06 EST, 18 June 2012 | UPDATED: 13:11 EST, 18 June 2012
In the super-computing league table, the U.S. has reclaimed 'top spot' from China.
IBM's Sequoia computer, which is 1.55 times faster than China's previous record-breaker, the Fujitsu K Computer, was installed and switched on at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
Throwing evidence behind Moore's Law - which dictates that computers get twice as powerful and twice as small every 18 months - the new super-computer is a powerful machine.
It can perform - in less than a second - calculations which would take the super computers of 1993 three days to solve.
In fact, the IBM team say it is 273,930 times more powerful than the 1993 machine - called the CM-5/1024 and created by American firm Thinking Machines.
The Sequoia: This grey slab is just part the most powerful computer on the planet, and will be used in nuclear power research, with perhaps a game or two of chess on the side
The BBC reports that Sequoia is capable of calculating, in one hour, 'what otherwise would take 6.7 billion people using hand calculators 320 years.'
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IBM Sequoia: US reclaims top spot for world's fastest supercomputer from China's Fujitsu K
U.S. wins: Fastest supercomputer in world is right here
In the race to build the fastest computer in the world, America is back on top.
On Monday, a super-computer designed by IBM for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), took the first spot on the Top 500 list, a list that comes out twice a year ranking the 500 fastest computers on the planet.
It is the first time the U.S. has topped the list since November 2009.
The winning super-computer is called Sequoia, and it is housed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif.
Sequoia will be used to build complex models that let scientists test the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons without having to do nuclear testing in the real world.
So how fast is the fastest computer in the world? Well, accordingto the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, it would take 6.7 billion people working with hand-held calculators 320 years to do the same calculation that Sequoia could power through in justone hour.
And the BBC reports that today's fastest computer is 273,930 times faster than the fastest computer of 1993.
"A calculation that took three full days to compute on the Thinking Machines in 1993 today can be done in less than one second on the Sequoia," Jack Dongarra, a computer scientist who helps oversee the Top 500 list, told the publication.
Sequoia takes up aboutone-tenth of an acre, a standard size for these computers, Dongarra said.
"They are enormous machines," he said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.
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U.S. reclaims top spot in super-computer wars with machine that 'can do more in an hour than the world's population …
IBM's 'Sequoia' beats Japan's 'K machine', running 1.55 times faster while being 15 per cent more energy efficient Computer - which is nearly 300,00 times faster than machines from 20 years ago - will be used for nuclear studies
By Eddie Wrenn
PUBLISHED: 12:06 EST, 18 June 2012 | UPDATED: 13:11 EST, 18 June 2012
In the super-computing league table, the U.S. has reclaimed 'top spot' from China.
IBM's Sequoia computer, which is 1.55 times faster than China's previous record-breaker, the Fujitsu K Computer, was installed and switched on at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
Throwing evidence behind Moore's Law - which dictates that computers get twice as powerful and twice as small every 18 months - the new super-computer is a powerful machine.
It can perform - in less than a second - calculations which would take the super computers of 1993 three days to solve.
In fact, the IBM team say it is 273,930 times more powerful than the 1993 machine - called the CM-5/1024 and created by American firm Thinking Machines.
The Sequoia: This grey slab is just part the most powerful computer on the planet, and will be used in nuclear power research, with perhaps a game or two of chess on the side
The BBC reports that Sequoia is capable of calculating, in one hour, 'what otherwise would take 6.7 billion people using hand calculators 320 years.'
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Supermicro® FatTwinâ„¢ Takes Center Stage at International Supercomputing Conference 2012
- New 4U, 8/4 Node FatTwin Joins Supermicros SuperBlade, GPU Platforms, SuperWorkstation, 4-Way and Twin Architecture Solutions Highlighting Supermicros Supercomputing Solutions for HPC
HAMBURG, Germany, June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Super Micro Computer, Inc., a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and green computing, will debut its newest innovative architecture, FatTwin [http://www.supermicro.com/FatTwin] at ISC, giving the public its first hands-on look at the future of power-efficient supercomputing. The FatTwin is a new 4U high-performance, high-capacity platform that offers versatile configurations for HPC with multi-node models that support dual 135W Intel Xeon E5-2600 processors, up to 8 hot-swap 3.5" HDDs in 1U and up to 8 GPUs in 2U. This new architecture is also designed to operate in high ambient temperatures providing greater performance while reducing cooling infrastructure costs.
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120618/AQ25859-INFO [http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120618/AQ25859-INFO])
"Many factors affect the successful implementation of scalable supercomputing solutions, and obtaining maximum performance within budget and power constraints is the most challenging task, " said Charles Liang, President and CEO of Supermicro. "At Supermicro, we emphasize not only the highest-performance in our HPC solutions, but also the overall energy efficiency and optimal power-usage effectiveness (PUE) of our complete systems. Supermicros new architectures such as FatTwin integrate the latest CPU, GPU and storage technologies with advanced high-efficiency digital switching power supplies and free-air cooling designs for maximum performance and increased operational temperature ranges up to 47 degrees C that eliminate costly air conditioning. Our expertise in server design and thermal management reduces our customers TCO and offsets operating expenses providing more budget for mission critical compute performance."
Supermicros new FatTwin expands on their widely adopted 1U and 2U Twin SuperServer lines and adds a new series of 4U systems that offers the industrys best capacity and efficiency in a standard 19" rack ready solution. The FatTwin is now shipping in high-compute density 4U 8 and 4 node configurations supporting dual Intel Xeon E5-2600 processors, up to 512GB of 1600MHz memory and up to 12 hot-swap 2.5" SAS/SATA HDDs per U in the 8 node or up to 8 hot-swap 3.5" SAS/SATA HDDs per U in the 4 node configuration. These systems also offer PCI-E 3.0 expandability and optional 56Gbps ConnectX-3 FDR InfiniBand or 10GbE connectivity. The real highlights of these systems reach beyond their high-performance and capacity with an earth friendly focus on energy efficiency and resulting cost savings. The FatTwin is designed to operate in extreme ambient temperature range (0 degrees C to 47 degrees C), free-air cooled environments, effectively eliminating the need for costly air-conditioning. The Twin architecture based multi-node solutions feature shared power and cooling resources reducing costly components and cabling, resulting in optimized air-flow and maximizing energy utilization. Combined with Supermicros redundant Platinum Level high-efficiency (95%+) digital switching power supplies, the FatTwin delivers maximum compute density and energy efficiency for todays most demanding supercomputing needs. FatTwin is a versatile platform and additional models will be released in early Q3 2012 offering solutions optimized for GPU supercomputing and Big Data/Hadoop analytics.
Exhibits at the show include Supermicros wide range of X9 Intel Xeon E5-2600 based platforms optimized for HPC. SuperBlade [http://www.supermicro.com/products/SuperBlade/] offers various blade configurations with a 56Gb FDR InfiniBand switch for high-speed interconnectivity. The GPU Blade SBI-7127RG [http://www.supermicro.com/servers/blade/module/SBI-7127RG.cfm] provides the highest compute density with 20 GPUs and 20 CPUs in 7U and the double-density TwinBlade SBI-7227R-T2 [http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/Xeon_X9_E5.cfm?pg=SB] provides 20 DP (dual-processor) server nodes with 40 CPUs in 7U. The SYS-1027GR-TQFT [http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1u/1027/sys-1027gr-tqft.cfm] offers an extreme 4 GPUs in 1U and the 2U 6 GPU SYS-2027GR-TRF [http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2u/2027/sys-2027gr-trf.cfm] is ideal for scalable cluster computing. The SYS-7047GR-TRF [http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/Maximus.cfm] SuperWorkstation accommodates up to 5 GPUs and recently received NVIDIA Maximus certification making this system a powerhouse for engineering, design and simulation applications. Supermicros advanced 4-Way MP (multi-processor) systems targeting mission-critical, data-intensive applications will be represented with the SYS-8047R-7RFT+ [http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/4u/8047/sys-8047r-7rft_.cfm].
In addition Supermicro will display its A+ line of AMD Opteron 6000 servers including the 4U rack mountable quad-processor AS-4042G-TRF [http://www.supermicro.com/aplus/system/tower/4042/as-4042g-trf.cfm] and the 2U Twin(2) AS-2022TG-H6IBQRF [http://www.supermicro.com/aplus/system/2u/2022/as-2022tg-h6ibqrf.cfm] offering four hot-pluggable dual-processor 16/12/8-Core nodes in a 2U form factor. Supermicro A+ Blade solutions include the 4-Way SuperBlade SBA-7142G-T4 [http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/superblade/module/SBA-7142G-T4.cfm] with ten hot-pluggable quad-processor 16/12/8-Core nodes in a 7U blade enclosure and the double-density TwinBlade SBA-7222G-T2 [http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/superblade/module/SBA-7222G-T2.cfm] with 20 DP 16/12/8-Core nodes in a 7U blade enclosure. Supermicro offers complete computing solutions with its 10G/1G Ethernet switches including two new models that also support free-air cooling operation in ambient temperatures of up to 47 degrees C.
Visit Supermicro at ISC12 in Hamburg, Germany at the Congress Center Hamburg (CCH), booth #520 or browse Supermicros total line of high performance, high-efficiency server and storage solutions at http://www.supermicro.com [http://www.supermicro.com/].
About Super Micro Computer, Inc.
Supermicro , the leading innovator in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology is a premier provider of advanced server Building Block Solutions for Data Center, Cloud Computing, HPC, Enterprise IT and Embedded Systems worldwide. Supermicro is committed to protecting the environment through its "We Keep IT Green" initiative and provides customers with the most energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly solutions available on the market.
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Supermicro® FatTwinâ„¢ Takes Center Stage at International Supercomputing Conference 2012
Supermicro(R) FatTwin(TM) Takes Center Stage at International Supercomputing Conference 2012
New 4U, 8/4 Node FatTwin(TM) Joins Supermicro's SuperBlade(R), GPU Platforms, SuperWorkstation, 4-Way and Twin Architecture Solutions Highlighting Supermicro's Supercomputing Solutions for HPC
HAMBURG, Germany, June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and green computing, will debut its newest innovative architecture, FatTwin(TM)( http://www.supermicro.com/FatTwin ) at ISC, giving the public its first hands-on look at the future of power-efficient supercomputing. The FatTwin is a new 4U high-performance, high-capacity platform that offers versatile configurations for HPC with multi-node models that support dual 135W Intel(R) Xeon(R) E5-2600 processors, up to 8 hot-swap 3.5" HDDs in 1U and up to 8 GPUs in 2U. This new architecture is also designed to operate in high ambient temperatures providing greater performance while reducing cooling infrastructure costs.
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120618/AQ25859-INFO)
"Many factors affect the successful implementation of scalable supercomputing solutions, and obtaining maximum performance within budget and power constraints is the most challenging task," said Charles Liang, President and CEO of Supermicro. "At Supermicro, we emphasize not only the highest-performance in our HPC solutions, but also the overall energy efficiency and optimal power-usage effectiveness (PUE) of our complete systems. Supermicro's new architectures such as FatTwin integrate the latest CPU, GPU and storage technologies with advanced high-efficiency digital switching power supplies and free-air cooling designs for maximum performance and increased operational temperature ranges up to 47 degrees C that eliminate costly air conditioning. Our expertise in server design and thermal management reduces our customer's TCO and offsets operating expenses providing more budget for mission critical compute performance."
Supermicro's new FatTwin expands on their widely adopted 1U and 2U Twin SuperServer lines and adds a new series of 4U systems that offers the industry's best capacity and efficiency in a standard 19" rack ready solution. The FatTwin is now shipping in high-compute density 4U 8 and 4 node configurations supporting dual Intel(R) Xeon(R) E5-2600 processors, up to 512GB of 1600MHz memory and up to 12 hot-swap 2.5" SAS/SATA HDDs per U in the 8 node or up to 8 hot-swap 3.5" SAS/SATA HDDs per U in the 4 node configuration. These systems also offer PCI-E 3.0 expandability and optional 56Gbps ConnectX-3 FDR InfiniBand or 10GbE connectivity. The real highlights of these systems reach beyond their high-performance and capacity with an earth friendly focus on energy efficiency and resulting cost savings. The FatTwin is designed to operate in extreme ambient temperature range (0 degrees C to 47 degrees C), free-air cooled environments, effectively eliminating the need for costly air-conditioning. The Twin architecture based multi-node solutions feature shared power and cooling resources reducing costly components and cabling, resulting in optimized air-flow and maximizing energy utilization. Combined with Supermicro's redundant Platinum Level high-efficiency (95%+) digital switching power supplies, the FatTwin delivers maximum compute density and energy efficiency for today's most demanding supercomputing needs. FatTwin is a versatile platform and additional models will be released in early Q3 2012 offering solutions optimized for GPU supercomputing and Big Data/Hadoop analytics.
Exhibits at the show include Supermicro's wide range of X9 Intel(R) Xeon(R) E5-2600 based platforms optimized for HPC. SuperBlade(R)( http://www.supermicro.com/products/SuperBlade ) offers various blade configurations with a 56Gb FDR InfiniBand switch for high-speed interconnectivity. The GPU Blade SBI-7127RG( http://www.supermicro.com/servers/blade/module/SBI-7127RG.cfm ) provides the highest compute density with 20 GPUs and 20 CPUs in 7U and the double-density TwinBlade(R) SBI-7227R-T2( http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/Xeon_X9_E5.cfm?pg=SB ) provides 20 DP (dual-processor) server nodes with 40 CPUs in 7U. The SYS-1027GR-TQFT( http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1u/1027/sys-1027gr-tqft.cfm ) offers an extreme 4 GPUs in 1U and the 2U 6 GPU SYS-2027GR-TRF( http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2u/2027/sys-2027gr-trf.cfm ) is ideal for scalable cluster computing. The SYS-7047GR-TRF( http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/Maximus.cfm ) SuperWorkstation accommodates up to 5 GPUs and recently received NVIDIA(R) Maximus(TM) certification making this system a powerhouse for engineering, design and simulation applications. Supermicro's advanced 4-Way MP (multi-processor) systems targeting mission-critical, data-intensive applications will be represented with the SYS-8047R-7RFT+( http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/4u/8047/sys-8047r-7rft_.cfm ).
In addition Supermicro will display its A+ line of AMD Opteron(TM) 6000 servers including the 4U rack mountable quad-processor AS-4042G-TRF( http://www.supermicro.com/aplus/system/tower/4042/as-4042g-trf.cfm ) and the 2U Twin(2)(R) AS-2022TG-H6IBQRF( http://www.supermicro.com/aplus/system/2u/2022/as-2022tg-h6ibqrf.cfm ) offering four hot-pluggable dual-processor 16/12/8-Core nodes in a 2U form factor. Supermicro A+ Blade solutions include the 4-Way SuperBlade SBA-7142G-T4( http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/superblade/module/SBA-7142G-T4.cfm ) with ten hot-pluggable quad-processor 16/12/8-Core nodes in a 7U blade enclosure and the double-density TwinBlade SBA-7222G-T2( http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/superblade/module/SBA-7222G-T2.cfm ) with 20 DP 16/12/8-Core nodes in a 7U blade enclosure. Supermicro offers complete computing solutions with its 10G/1G Ethernet switches including two new models that also support free-air cooling operation in ambient temperatures of up to 47 degrees C.
Visit Supermicro at ISC'12 in Hamburg, Germany at the Congress Center Hamburg (CCH), booth #520 or browse Supermicro's total line of high performance, high-efficiency server and storage solutions at http://www.supermicro.com.
About Super Micro Computer, Inc.
Supermicro(R) (SMCI), the leading innovator in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology is a premier provider of advanced server Building Block Solutions(R) for Data Center, Cloud Computing, HPC, Enterprise IT and Embedded Systems worldwide. Supermicro is committed to protecting the environment through its "We Keep IT Green(R)" initiative and provides customers with the most energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly solutions available on the market.
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Supermicro(R) FatTwin(TM) Takes Center Stage at International Supercomputing Conference 2012
Supermicro® FatTwin™ Takes Center Stage at International Supercomputing Conference 2012
HAMBURG, Germany, June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and green computing, will debut its newest innovative architecture, FatTwin at ISC, giving the public its first hands-on look at the future of power-efficient supercomputing. The FatTwin is a new 4U high-performance, high-capacity platform that offers versatile configurations for HPC with multi-node models that support dual 135W Intel Xeon E5-2600 processors, up to 8 hot-swap 3.5" HDDs in 1U and up to 8 GPUs in 2U. This new architecture is also designed to operate in high ambient temperatures providing greater performance while reducing cooling infrastructure costs.
(Photo:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120618/AQ25859-INFO)
"Many factors affect the successful implementation of scalable supercomputing solutions, and obtaining maximum performance within budget and power constraints is the most challenging task," said Charles Liang, President and CEO of Supermicro. "At Supermicro, we emphasize not only the highest-performance in our HPC solutions, but also the overall energy efficiency and optimal power-usage effectiveness (PUE) of our complete systems. Supermicro's new architectures such as FatTwin integrate the latest CPU, GPU and storage technologies with advanced high-efficiency digital switching power supplies and free-air cooling designs for maximum performance and increased operational temperature ranges up to 47 degrees C that eliminate costly air conditioning. Our expertise in server design and thermal management reduces our customer's TCO and offsets operating expenses providing more budget for mission critical compute performance."
Supermicro's new FatTwin expands on their widely adopted 1U and 2U Twin SuperServer lines and adds a new series of 4U systems that offers the industry's best capacity and efficiency in a standard 19" rack ready solution. The FatTwin is now shipping in high-compute density 4U 8 and 4 node configurations supporting dual Intel Xeon E5-2600 processors, up to 512GB of 1600MHz memory and up to 12 hot-swap 2.5" SAS/SATA HDDs per U in the 8 node or up to 8 hot-swap 3.5" SAS/SATA HDDs per U in the 4 node configuration. These systems also offer PCI-E 3.0 expandability and optional 56Gbps ConnectX-3 FDR InfiniBand or 10GbE connectivity. The real highlights of these systems reach beyond their high-performance and capacity with an earth friendly focus on energy efficiency and resulting cost savings. The FatTwin is designed to operate in extreme ambient temperature range (0 degrees C to 47 degrees C), free-air cooled environments, effectively eliminating the need for costly air-conditioning. The Twin architecture based multi-node solutions feature shared power and cooling resources reducing costly components and cabling, resulting in optimized air-flow and maximizing energy utilization. Combined with Supermicro's redundant Platinum Level high-efficiency (95%+) digital switching power supplies, the FatTwin delivers maximum compute density and energy efficiency for today's most demanding supercomputing needs. FatTwin is a versatile platform and additional models will be released in early Q3 2012 offering solutions optimized for GPU supercomputing and Big Data/Hadoop analytics.
Exhibits at the show include Supermicro's wide range of X9 Intel Xeon E5-2600 based platforms optimized for HPC. SuperBlade offers various blade configurations with a 56Gb FDR InfiniBand switch for high-speed interconnectivity. The GPU Blade SBI-7127RG provides the highest compute density with 20 GPUs and 20 CPUs in 7U and the double-density TwinBlade SBI-7227R-T2 provides 20 DP (dual-processor) server nodes with 40 CPUs in 7U. The SYS-1027GR-TQFT offers an extreme 4 GPUs in 1U and the 2U 6 GPU SYS-2027GR-TRF is ideal for scalable cluster computing. The SYS-7047GR-TRF SuperWorkstation accommodates up to 5 GPUs and recently received NVIDIA Maximus certification making this system a powerhouse for engineering, design and simulation applications. Supermicro's advanced 4-Way MP (multi-processor) systems targeting mission-critical, data-intensive applications will be represented with the SYS-8047R-7RFT+.
In addition Supermicro will display its A+ line of AMD Opteron 6000 servers including the 4U rack mountable quad-processor AS-4042G-TRF and the 2U Twin(2) AS-2022TG-H6IBQRF offering four hot-pluggable dual-processor 16/12/8-Core nodes in a 2U form factor. Supermicro A+ Blade solutions include the 4-Way SuperBlade SBA-7142G-T4 with ten hot-pluggable quad-processor 16/12/8-Core nodes in a 7U blade enclosure and the double-density TwinBlade SBA-7222G-T2 with 20 DP 16/12/8-Core nodes in a 7U blade enclosure. Supermicro offers complete computing solutions with its 10G/1G Ethernet switches including two new models that also support free-air cooling operation in ambient temperatures of up to 47 degrees C.
Visit Supermicro at ISC'12 in Hamburg, Germany at the Congress Center Hamburg (CCH), booth #520 or browse Supermicro's total line of high performance, high-efficiency server and storage solutions at http://www.supermicro.com.
About Super Micro Computer, Inc.
Supermicro (SMCI), the leading innovator in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology is a premier provider of advanced server Building Block Solutions for Data Center, Cloud Computing, HPC, Enterprise IT and Embedded Systems worldwide. Supermicro is committed to protecting the environment through its "We Keep IT Green" initiative and provides customers with the most energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly solutions available on the market.
Supermicro, SuperServer, SuperBlade, TwinBlade, 2U Twin(2), Building Block Solutions and We Keep IT Green are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Super Micro Computer, Inc.
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Supermicro® FatTwin™ Takes Center Stage at International Supercomputing Conference 2012
The machine is real
"Person of Interest" the CBS cop drama about a government super computer that can predict the victims and perpetrators of crime may not be so far fetched, after all.
The government has been trying to build exactly the kind of machine that we feature on the show for about a decade now, producer Jonathan Nolan says.
And now, it appears to have succeeded.
The National Security Agency is in the process of constructing a $2 billion data processing and spy center in remote Bluffdale, Utah, according to a recent report.
When completed next year, the one-million-square-foot facility will be used to intercept, store and analyze everything from private e-mails and cellphone calls to Web searches and parking tickets.
I SPY: Harold Finch (Michael Emerson) quits his job when he realizes the machine he made will be used for illegal surveillance.
The no-longer secret project first exposed by the tech magazine Wired in March is an apparent realization of the Total Information Awareness project proposed by the Bush White House in the months following 9/11.
TIA was nixed by Congress in 2003 amid fears of invading the privacy of ordinary Americans.
Person of Interest which producers like to call science fact is based on the idea that a version of the cyber-surveillance system was actually built and is now being used secretly by its designer to prevent violent crimes on the streets of New York.
The show, the top-rated new drama of last season, was a near-instant hit when it debuted last fall.
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Age of Empires: The Conqurors – vsing Duke AI 1.6 – Super computer – Video
16-06-2012 07:37 Duke AI is beast but massed light cavalry resulting in slaughter beyond all recognition.
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Sheldon Adelson: 7 surprising facts about 2012's biggest donor
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Supermicro(R) Launches FatTwin(TM) Architecture
Innovative New 4U FatTwin SuperServers Offer High-Density Compute and Storage with Energy Saving Designs for PUE Optimized, Free-Air Cooling Data Centers
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and green computing, launches the FatTwin(TM), a high-capacity powerful new server platform based on Supermicro's highly successful Twin Architecture. This landmark product offers a new, flexible, high-density computing solution for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Big Data and HPC applications delivering the highest performance with the most energy efficient technologies and cooling designs available on the market.
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"Energy consumption is one of the greatest challenges facing Data Centers as computing demands increase exponentially around the world," said Charles Liang, President and CEO of Supermicro. "Supermicro is addressing this growing challenge by developing new generation server technologies such as FatTwin which maximizes performance with support of up to 135W processors while eliminating costly air-conditioning and cooling methods. The innovation of FatTwin is in its high-density, airflow optimized design that integrates up to eight dual-processor nodes in a standard 4U rackmount server and operates at temperatures up to 47 degrees C. Our FatTwin platform will set new industry standards for performance and efficiency while offering lowered TCO and an accelerated return on investment."
Supermicro's patented Twin architecture revolutionizes server computing by integrating independent systems side-by-side in a single chassis, multiplying compute density while reducing solution costs through shared resources such as the chassis, fans, power supplies, cabling and rack mount hardware. This innovative architecture incorporates airflow optimized designs, air-shrouds and streamlined cabling which reduces fan speeds and power consumption resulting in improved power utilization and overall energy efficiency. The 4U FatTwin is the latest addition to the evolving Twin architecture line and is available in 8/4/2 DP node configurations with high-capacity storage (8 hot-swap 3.5" HDDs per 1U or 6 hot-swap 2.5" HDDs per 1/2U). FatTwin achieves the highest performance-per-watt/per-dollar with Supermicro's X9 DP (dual-processor) serverboards and redundant Platinum Level high-efficiency (95%+) digital switching power supplies. With free-air cooling designs and an extreme operational temperature range (0 degrees C - 47 degrees C) that does not require air conditioning, the FatTwin helps Data Centers achieve the best power usage effectiveness (PUE < 1.1).
FatTwin is available in 8 DP node (SYS-F617R2-R/F Series) and 4 DP node (SYS-F627R2/R3/G3-F/R Series) SKUs with versatile configurations featuring:
-- Dual Intel(R) Xeon(R) processor E5-2600 series support
-- Up to 512GB ECC Reg. DDR3-1600MHz SDRAM in 16 DIMM sockets
-- 2x SATA3 (6Gbps) and 4x SATA2 (3Gps) ports supporting RAID 0, 1, 5,10
-- 8x SAS 2.0 (6Gbs) (LSI 2208) RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60; (LSI 2308) RAID 0, 1, 10
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Supermicro® Launches FatTwinâ„¢ Architecture
- Innovative New 4U FatTwin SuperServers Offer High-Density Compute and Storage with Energy Saving Designs for PUE Optimized, Free-Air Cooling Data Centers
SAN JOSE, California, June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Super Micro Computer, Inc., a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and green computing, launches the FatTwin, a high-capacity powerful new server platform based on Supermicros highly successful Twin Architecture. This landmark product offers a new, flexible, high-density computing solution for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Big Data and HPC applications delivering the highest performance with the most energy efficient technologies and cooling designs available on the market.
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120614/AQ24697-INFO [http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120614/AQ24697-INFO])
"Energy consumption is one of the greatest challenges facing Data Centers as computing demands increase exponentially around the world, " said Charles Liang, President and CEO of Supermicro. "Supermicro is addressing this growing challenge by developing new generation server technologies such as FatTwin which maximizes performance with support of up to 135W processors while eliminating costly air-conditioning and cooling methods. The innovation of FatTwin is in its high-density, airflow optimized design that integrates up to eight dual-processor nodes in a standard 4U rackmount server and operates at temperatures up to 47 degrees C. Our FatTwin platform will set new industry standards for performance and efficiency while offering lowered TCO and an accelerated return on investment."
Supermicros patented Twin architecture revolutionizes server computing by integrating independent systems side-by-side in a single chassis, multiplying compute density while reducing solution costs through shared resources such as the chassis, fans, power supplies, cabling and rack mount hardware. This innovative architecture incorporates airflow optimized designs, air-shrouds and streamlined cabling which reduces fan speeds and power consumption resulting in improved power utilization and overall energy efficiency. The 4U FatTwin is the latest addition to the evolving Twin architecture line and is available in 8/4/2 DP node configurations with high-capacity storage (8 hot-swap 3.5" HDDs per 1U or 6 hot-swap 2.5" HDDs per 1/2U). FatTwin achieves the highest performance-per-watt/per-dollar with Supermicros X9 DP (dual-processor) serverboards and redundant Platinum Level high-efficiency (95%+) digital switching power supplies. With free-air cooling designs and an extreme operational temperature range (0 degrees C - 47 degrees C) that does not require air conditioning, the FatTwin helps Data Centers achieve the best power usage effectiveness (PUE < 1.1).
FatTwin is available in 8 DP node (SYS-F617R2-R/F Series) and 4 DP node (SYS-F627R2/R3/G3-F/R Series) SKUs with versatile configurations featuring:
Additional 4U FatTwin configurations are scheduled for release in early Q3 2012 including a 2 node solution featuring massive storage and GPU capacity and a model with 4x full-width 1U nodes that feature increased airflow and high-density compute and storage capacity.
FatTwin delivers maximum performance, efficiency and versatility for scientific, research, engineering, and enterprise organizations requiring high-performance, scalable computing and storage solutions for mission-critical applications. The platform is optimized for process intensive database driven applications including Big Data and Hadoop analytics, gas and oil exploration, computational finance, search engines, design and modeling, simulation and many other applications.
For complete information on Supermicros new high performance, high-efficiency FatTwin architecture, visit http://www.supermicro.com/FatTwin [http://www.supermicro.com/FatTwin]. For more information on Supermicros comprehensive line of server, storage and complete integrated SuperRack solutions visit http://www.supermicro.com [http://www.supermicro.com/].
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