| The idea of a virtual supercomputer, powered by the spare processor cycles and bandwidth of thousands of PCs, is anything but new. |
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| This configuration can achieve supercomputer processing rates at a fragment of the supercomputer's price tag. |
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| The new charges relate to Unix's ability to turn a cluster of PCs into a supercomputer powerful enough to use to develop nuclear missiles. |
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| As such, scientists from around the country can access the supercomputer for research through a competitive proposal process. |
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| A custom supercomputer uses processors that have been specialized for scientific computing. |
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| So far, pi has been calculated to 1.24 trillion decimal places with the aid of a supercomputer. |
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| In the past, supercomputers required the software to be handcrafted for the specific architecture of the supercomputer. |
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| With so-called grid computing, even personal computers can serve as a virtual supercomputer if enough of them are linked together. |
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| This kind of computing can transform a local network of workstations into a virtual supercomputer. |
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| The Dutch town of Almere will host the world's first virtual city supercomputer or computer grid. |
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| Each processor is constructed on a single silicon chip, so the supercomputer is essentially 12, 288 interconnected chips. |
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| Many of today's commercial supercomputer applications were pioneered by scientists and engineers working on problems of great national importance. |
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| The HPC supercomputer solves complex problems in a matter of hours and days, instead of weeks or months. |
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| Ahalt and his peers in the supercomputer community are hoping it stays that way. |
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| This past January marked the first anniversary of Environment Canada's supercomputer, Azur. |
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| It costs less to make a cluster computer out of a group of personal computers or workstations than to buy a supercomputer to perform enormous mathematical tasks. |
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| Cooling the supercomputer requires as much refrigeration as would be needed to air-condition about 32 average homes on a hot summer day. |
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| But the aerodynamics involved are extremely complex and required a supercomputer to crack. |
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| The quirky sci-fi thriller Transcendence finds depp playing a scientist whose brain is downloaded onto a supercomputer. |
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| The University of Liverpool today unveiled a new supercomputer cluster which is expected to be one of the World's 100 most powerful systems when it goes live next month. |
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| Compaq's Alpha technology won the contract to construct Europe's largest supercomputer. |
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| At present, only a supercomputer such as the Silicon Graphics Onyx can achieve this but the situation may change in the near future. |
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| The CMCC has opted for the experience of Socomec UPS to guarantee an uninterrupted power supply to its supercomputer and safeguard the data. |
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| By linking them together and combining their processing power, a very cost-effective supercomputer has been created. |
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| The supercomputer replacement process which was initiated last year will gear up with staff dedicated fulltime to this activity. |
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| With the help of IBM, BU has become the first academic research center to implement IBM's ASCI White, the world's most powerful supercomputer. |
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| Not everybody can get access to a supercomputer. |
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| The water-cooled supercomputer will consist of two IBM BladeCenter servers in one rack and will have a peak performance of about 10 Teraflops. |
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| The Cray CX1 supercomputer makes HPC performance available to everyone, combining the power of a high performance cluster with the affordability, ease-of-use and seamless integration of a workstation. |
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| It was therefore fundamentally important to us that the supercomputer had no single point of failure so it could survive a problem in, say, one of its disks, without the whole computer breaking down. |
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| Instead of relying on telescopes, they're using a locally constructed supercomputer to simulate the behaviour of such exotic astronomical phenomena as supernovas. |
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| The supercomputer implementation places the leading premium car manufacturer at No. 123 on the TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers, making it the auto industry's fastest system. |
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| Finally, it is the installation of the new JADE supercomputer at the National Computing Center CINES that allowed to find the 7 million hours of CPU time required to conclude this work. |
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| A large computing infrastructure of over 100 operational computer systems including the supercomputer as well as the departmental wide area network are monitored by the Service Desk. |
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| This is currently the largest and most powerful digital correlator system in the world, with a performance speed equivalent to the fastest supercomputer systems in the world today. |
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| For now the secrecy of information on the Internet is based on the assumption that even with the world's fastest supercomputer no one could efficiently break the encrypted code in a reasonable amount of time. |
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| The researchers have used the JADE teraflop supercomputer to simulate a set of 2,501 solutions for the evolution of the Solar System over a 5-billion-year period. |
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| The lab currently has a 5 teraflop supercomputer, or one that can run five trillion operations per second, located in Berkeley. |
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| Pittsburgh supercomputer is complete, and scientists are champing at the bit to use it. |
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| Soon afterwards, the team secured a sponsorship deal with Lenovo who built the team's new supercomputer. |
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| In November 1997 the Met Office supercomputer was ranked third in the world. |
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| Norton was formerly at supercomputer interconnect specialist Quadrics Supercomputers Ltd. |
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| The surprise is that it was done using eight linked microcomputers rather than a supercomputer or a factoring machine. |
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| A company called Corvid Technologies employs a 5,000-processor supercomputer for solving complex engineering problems for clients. |
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| The world's first supercomputer to break the petaflop barrier, the US Department of Energy's RoadRunner system had been decommissioned. |
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| A new supercomputer from computer company IBM has been acquired by the Beijing Meteorological Bureau, China, to assist in weather forecasting and air-quality control. |
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| The Helios supercomputer, which supports research work aimed at controlling nuclear fusion, has been boosted with the addition of more processing power. |
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| Meanwhile, CRAY BLITZ, afte being installed on a new, faster Cray X-MP supercomputer, last fall successfully defended its North American computer chess title. |
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| Tera Computer Company, has installed a four-processor Multithreaded Architecture system at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. |
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| Supercomputer is defined as a system's ability to perform one billion operations per second, also called a gigaflop. |
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