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• Chip Shot: Intel Boosts NASA's Supercomputing BrainpowerNovember 17, 2009

  Using 2,304 Intel® Xeon® 5500 series processors, NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has increased its "brainpower" by 35 percent allowing scientists to make new discoveries and gain greater insight into Earth's system and climate change. Not only does the enhanced supercomputer allow scientists to make new discoveries, the new processors are also environmentally friendly, using only one-eighth the power of previous generation processors to accomplish the same amount of work. For more information, visit NASA's Advanced Supercomputing facility.

• Chip Shot: Intel CTO Weighs in on 21st Century InnovationNovember 17, 2009

  In support of an Intel-Newsweek survey released on innovation and the economy, Justin Rattner shared his perspective on a 21st century R&D model with Huffington Post readers. He explained that promoting innovation and supporting U.S. competitiveness will require an enlightened combination of cutting edge academic research and industrial R&D, well-informed government policy and support, and continuous improvement of math and science outcomes.

• Chip Shot: Intel and SGI Break Supercomputing BoundariesNovember 16, 2009

  Intel and SGI are scaling the extreme heights of supercomputing with a shared memory supercomputer called Altix UV. The system will lead the industry in maximizing bandwidth and minimizing latency on cluster and HPC applications. The system, which is being unveiled at Supercomputing 2009 in Portland, Ore., uses quad-, six-, or eight-core Nehalem-EX processors, and will deliver exceptional performance and scalability. Supercomputing 2009 attendees can see Altix UV in SGI's booth, #1721.

• Intel Architecture Driving Future of SupercomputingNovember 15, 2009

  

  PORTLAND, Ore. Nov. 15, 2009 – More than four out of every five supercomputers on the TOP500 list are powered by Intel® processors.