IBM and Nvidia unite

IBM and Nvidia unite to build more powerful computer in the world

A reputed partnership promises to surprise the world of supercomputers. IBM and Nvidia announced that they will come together to build a new supercomputer that should be the fastest in the world. This machine is expected to reach 150 petaflops of processing power, but the detail that draws more attention in the proposal is the incredible energy efficiency of the computer. The project should be completed in 2017.

The project is to build two computers, Summit and the Sierra, which will reach 150 petaflops performance and consume between 11.4 and 13.1 megawatts (1 megawatt / hour is enough to power an average of 540 households). To give you an idea as it is efficient, the fastest supercomputer in the world today, the Chinese Tianhe2, uses 17 megawatts to achieve peak performance in their 34 petaflops.

This means that both Summit and Sierra, can be five times more efficient than Tianhe2. The 150 such peak petaflops computers are to hand in a 11,000 megaflops per watt performance.

According to IBM, the power consumption more efficiently is possible thanks to the machine architecture, developed so that she can move large amounts of data faster. According to the disclosure of material, in total, the computers will be able to move 17 petabytes of data per second.

IBM and Nvidia gained a credit line of US Department of Energy (equivalent to our ministry of mines and energy) to develop the two machines. Both will have Power8 processors, IBM, and new GPUs Volta, Nvidia, which were even released.

In the case of Return, it is known that the great innovation is the use of chip RAM mounted on the GPU using a novel technology that allows the whole graphic processor and RAM, reaches speeds of 1 TB / second data transfer. Both computers will be at the service of scientific research and simulation scenarios for which a massive computational power (such as weather prediction models and disasters)

COMPUTING: THE FUTURE TODAY

In recent decades many aspects of our lives have undergone major transformations and, no doubt, computers and modern computer technology play a decisive role in these transformations.

Just over 40 years, a trip to the moon, teleconferences, phone dials between two continents, cash withdrawals outside banking hours, sophisticated clinical and robots that build other machines were the most optimistic case, fiction themes scientific, possible only in a still distant future. Today, thanks to the development of computers and information technology, this futuristic fiction has become everyday reality.

If we consider an ordinary man in a big city, we realize, watching your day-to-day, how many contacts he has with the computer. When withdrawing cash at an ATM, to use the phone and when he reads her daily newspaper, modern man is making use of information technology. However, among the various aspects through which this type of technology is manifested, is undeniably the microcomputer one that most reveals the presence of information technology in today's world. Its popularity has been responsible for a revolution in our habits and our social organization.

The computer that makes Information Auto (INFORmação autoMÁTICA) should not intimidate and deceive so little, she and computers were created to solve problems and help people.

Today, we can see the technological advances in areas such as: medicine, telecommunications, transport, education etc. Undoubtedly, this technology that has accompanied us and will continue increasingly in the coming years, will allow further progress will be achieved in increasingly shorter periods, further changing our habits and social organization, transforming the FUTURE in THIS. To better understand this transformation, it is necessary to know the process by which the computer was developed, and the trajectory of the computer, until the current computer.

Continuation - Informatics and Computers

1981 - IBM launches micro PC 5150.

1985 - Microsoft Windows Operating System OE Word 1.0 (First Text Processor Version). 

1989 - Tim Berners-Lee, EUROPEAN creates the World Wide Web Browser (WWW) that originates the Internet. 

1991 - Linus Torvalds releases Linux operating system with code - Open source.

1992 - The American company Microsoft releases Windows 3.1 Operating System. The New Version of Windows do Incorporates oriented technologies for the use of CD-Roms.  

1993 - First appears the browser, NCSA Mosaic. 

1993 - Intel company puts on the market Pentium processor. 

1994 - The internet IS CREATED Netscape Navigator browser. 

1995 - Takes On Windows 95 do business, bringing CORPORATE The Internet Explorer browser. 

1995 - Created the Java By Sun Microsystems. 

1997 - Garri Kasparov, World Chess Champion Loses to Computer IBM's Deep Blue. 

1997 - Justin Fraenkel DEVELOPS Winamp, Used program to listen to music not MP3 format. 

1998 - Microsoft releases Windows 98 in Market. 

1999 - Intel launches in the market the Pentium III. 

2001 - The USB (Universal Serial Bus) was introduced in 2001 and allows "plug and play", ie the connection of peripherals without the need to shut down the computer. 

2006 - Apple releases the iPod Nano, the smallest iPod with LCD screen and the iPod Video, with a storage capacity reaching 200 GB. 

2007 - Microsoft releases Windows Vista operating system, a systems line developed by Microsoft for use on personal computers. Prior to its announcement on July 22, 2005, Windows Vista was known by the code name Longhorn.

 

2009 - Windows 7 was released to companies on July 22, 2009, and began to be sold freely to ordinary users at 00:00 pm on October 22, 2009, less than three years after the release of its predecessor, Windows view. Windows 7 was a more modest and focused update to the Windows line, with the intention of making it fully compatible with applications and hardware with which Windows Vista was already compatible. 

2010 - iPad is a device in tablet format produced by Apple Inc. The device was announced on January 27, 2010, at a conference for the press at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Months before his announcement, rumors of the device name: iSlate, iTablet and iBook, among others. 

 2012 - Windows 8 is Microsoft's operating system name, for personal computers, including laptops, netbooks and tablets.Foi officially announced by Steve Ballmer, CEO of the company, during the pre-release product conference. According to the company, this will be a system for any device with a fully adapted interface for touch devices, Microsoft released the Consumer Preview version of Windows 8 on 29 February 2012. 

2013 - Windows 8.1 (Windows 9) is the new version of Microsoft Windows for personal computers, laptops, netbooks and tablets. The system has small differences and new developments in relation to its predecessor Windows 8. In this ninth version of Windows Microsoft has brought back the start button, now only as a shortcut to the home screen.

Informatics and Computers

With population growth, globalization and the development of capitalism in the twentieth century, new needs arise for humans. The amount of data and information to be computed armazenas and reaches an incalculable volume. The information arises in this context: to overcome the human need to register and manipulate data in large quantities quickly and accurately.

Below is a brief history of the development of information technology and technology related to computing in general (1822 to 1976).

1822 - The English mathematician Charles Babbage designs a mechanical computer, but this never came to pass.

 

1847 - It created the binary system by the English mathematician George Boole.

 

1880 - The American Herman Hollerith creates an electromechanical data processor. The system used punch cards for data entry.

 

1930 - In the United States, the electrician engineer Vannevar Bush develops a computer using radio tubes.

 

1946 - The North American engineers John William Mauchly and John Presper Eckart Jr develop the ENIAC, the first electronic computer. The ENIAC was developed to serve the interests of the US war in World War II. Served to make the calculations in the development of the atomic bomb.

 

1956 - Appears at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) the first computer that uses transistors.

 

1963 - Douglas Engelbart patented the mouse.

 

1964 - Paul Baran, an American researcher, designs and creates the first network of interconnected wired computers.

 

1966 - IBM develops the Ramac 305 using memory disks with 5 mb capacity.

 

1968 - Douglas Engelbart creates a system with mouse, keyboard and windows (windows).

 

1971 - Intel creates the MCS-4, first personal computer with the processor 4004.

 

1972 - Atari company creates the first game with the game Pong.

 

1975 - Develop the Basic language, the first language for microcomputers. Earlier languages were adequate to large and medium-sized computers.

 

1975 - Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft.

 

1976 - Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs design and develop the micro Apple I. In the same year the duo Apple Computer Company.

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