Supercomputing Stories for 2009

FASTRA II Puts 13 GPUs In a Desktop Supercomputer 127
Google Demonstrates Quantum Computer Image Search 106
US Air Force Buying Another 2,200 PS3s 144
A Skeptical Reaction To IBM's Cat Brain Simulation Claims 198
Australia's CSIRO To Launch CPU-GPU Supercomputer 82
IBM Takes a (Feline) Step Toward Thinking Machines 428
100 Million-Core Supercomputers Coming By 2018 286
The Story Behind a Failed HPC Startup 109
Asus Releases Desktop-Sized Supercomputer 260
What Kind of Cloud Computing Project Costs $32M? 158
SGI Rolls Out "Personal Supercomputers" 303
US Supercomputer Uses Flash Storage Drives 72
Pi Calculated To Record 2.5 Trillion Digits 432
Can We Build a Human Brain Into a Microchip? 598
US Supercomputer Lead Sparks Russian Govt's Competitive Drive 74
Sandia Studies Botnets In 1M OS Digital Petri Dish 161
Making Cesium Atoms Do a Quantum Walk 117
BOINC Exceeds 2 Petaflop/s Barrier 114
Optical Transistor Made From Single Molecule 92
DARPA Wants a 19" Super-Efficient Supercomputer 200
Microsoft-Backed Firm Says IBM Is Anticompetitive 174
Aussie Scientists Build a Cluster To Map the Sky 58
Open Source Solution Breaks World Sorting Records 139
Flu Models Predict Pandemic, But Flu Chips Ready 216
IBM Computer Program To Take On 'Jeopardy!' 213
Creating a Low-Power Cloud With Netbook Chips 93
Supercomputer As a Service 78
Microchip Mimics a Brain With 200,000 Neurons 521
Collaborative Map-Reduce In the Browser 188
Best Solution For HA and Network Load Balancing? 298
Testing Lenovo's ThinkPad W700ds Dual-Screen Notebook 197
DIY 1980s "Non-Von" Supercomputer 135
IBM Building 20 Petaflop Computer For the US Gov't 248
AMD Plans 1,000-GPU Supercomputer For Games, Cloud 148
Roland Piquepaille Dies 288

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