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• ANU plans $50m supercomputer spend

  National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), part of the Australian National University (ANU), is working towards a contract with the Federal Government that will see $50 million spent on a new datacentre and supercomputer by 2012.

• ATI revamps mobile Radeons

  AMD is looking to snag a bigger slice of the mobile graphics pie with a new series of ATI Mobility Radeon chips, called the HD4000 series.

• Photos: The world's fastest supercomputers

  This photo gallery takes you inside Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US, home to some of the world's fastest supercomputers. It's also the site where the first plutonium was refined to create atomic bombs during World War II.

• Melbourne Uni supercomputer looking for cancer cure

  The next breakthrough in the study of diseases such as cancer may come from a digital mind, with the University of Melbourne and the Victorian government planning to invest AU$100 million in a supercomputer devoted to the life sciences.

• Inside the Top500 supercomputers

  Roadrunner has topped the Top500 supercomputers list to be released Wednesday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany.

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• Datacentre 2020: Greener, faster, more flexible

  The average datacentre lasts between 15 and 20 years, so when the current generation of datacentres near the end of their working life, will their replacements be at all familiar?

• Photos: Inside Project Blackbox

  Project Blackbox is the first virtualised datacentre to be stored in a shipping container, and according to its manufacturer, Sun Microsystems, it's fully portable -- providing you have the means to tow it.

• Photo gallery: 35 years of Intel chip design

  A look at how Intel chips have evolved -- from the revolutionary 4004 to the teraflop-ready 80-core prototype of tomorrow.

• For Intel, the future has two cores

  Chipmaker turns to a more-is-better approach, downplaying chip speeds in favour of new features and designs.

• Cray gears up fastest supercomputer

  Cray has announced a new supercomputer that will leave its fastest counterparts in the dust.

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• IBM details Blue Gene supercomputer

  IBM is shedding light on a program to create the world's fastest supercomputer, illuminating a dual-pronged strategy, an unusual new processor design and a leaning toward the Linux operating system.

• Cray's king-of-the-hill supercomputer

  Cray announced on Thursday a new supercomputer that will leave its fastest counterparts in the dust.

• Linux to enter supercomputing top five

  A Linux cluster coming to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory later this year will be the most powerful Linux or Intel-based supercomputer ever built.

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