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Learn about how IBM and the University of Toronto’s SciNet Consortium built Canada’s most powerful and energy efficient supercomputer in this video created by IBM. Video located on the right side of page: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/deepcomputing/ The video does not work in Firefox on all machines, please use Internet Explorer if you’re having trouble viewing.

“The Canadian Scinet machine is one of the first to use the newly launched Intel Xeon 5500.  The  Xeon 5500 is considered to be Intel’s most significant chip advance in more than a decade.” For the full story go to: http://www.hpcwire.com/features/HPC-Vendors-Jump-On-Nehalem-42360237.html

From HPCwire article: IBM Maintains Top Spot on Supercomputer List November 17, 2008 IBM Maintains Top Spot on Supercomputer List ARMONK, N.Y., Nov. 17 — For a record-setting ninth consecutive time, an IBM system took the No.1 spot in the ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. The IBM computer built for the “roadrunner project” at…

System will process up to 360 trillion calculations per second, store 60 times more data than the Library of Congress Web archive, and be housed in an ultra energy-efficient data centre TORONTO, 14 August 2008: The University of Toronto’s SciNet Consortium and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced an agreement to build Canada’s most powerful and…