Comparably minor hardware upgrades like more RAM or better video cards will likely make a major difference in your old system's performance.
To test the system's performance at the configuration stage, the K computer's processing speed was measured by the LINPACK benchmark program, placing it on the 37th TOP500 ranking of the world's fastest supercomputers.
ENGADGET: Fujitsu K supercomputer now ranked fastest in the world, dethrones China's Tianhe-1A
It's important to ensure that we get results, and so we will create a strong and transparent system for measuring each country's performance.
Given that all four official candidates were sworn to keep the largely theocratic system going, the government's performance was stupid as well as pernicious.
The effort will bring space system designs within NASA's safety and performance expectations for future flights to the International Space Station.
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Previously code-named "Cascade, " the Cray XC30 supercomputer is the Company's most-advanced high performance computing system ever built.
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Powered by Intel's reliable high performance desktop chipset, this system supports up to 16GB of DDR3 1333 RAM and up to 1TB of data storage.
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We know, for instance, that loopholes in the law's accountability system must be closed to ensure that the performance of disadvantaged children is not being hidden or ignored.
The system's designers got around this by insisting that funds meet performance targets or else make up the shortfall.
This half-build system achieved the world's best LINPACK(2) benchmark performance of 8.162 petaflops (quadrillion floating-point operations per second), to place it at the head of the TOP500 list.
ENGADGET: Fujitsu K supercomputer now ranked fastest in the world, dethrones China's Tianhe-1A
The DDX790 is also equipped with three sets of 4.0 volt preamp outputs for system building and exceptional control over audio performance from the driver's seat.
What about all the other outcome measures that are relevant to evaluating the performance of a medical system and on which the U.S. ranks very high?
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Salesforce.com ( CRM - news - people ) shares a real-time overview of its platform's security and performance, including live and historical data on system performance.
The CEO's pay will in part be determined by a performance-rating system the organization will reach with commercial airlines.
Each of Iridium's 66 satellites has its own phone-switching system, boosting coverage and performance at a cost of complexity and weight.
Although her system is driven by performance, she notes some fundamental reasons for AEMGX's strength, including currency trends and sector allocations.
WD's hybrid technology works in conjunction with the PC operating system to deliver higher performance than current hybrid offerings while minimizing NAND wear to allow the use of less expensive MLC NAND.
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Samsung Electronics has reportedly decided not to use its own application processor inside its next-generation Galaxy S IV flagship Google Android smartphone, but utilize a performance-mainstream system-on-chip from Qualcomm.
Designed and tested over months of research by the industry's most performance focused engineering team, the Sub-Zero Liquid Chilled System is specifically designed for enthusiasts and hardcore gamers who are driven by the pursuit of more performance and power.
"The HP Pavilion TouchSmart Sleekbook is HP's most affordable touch-enabled system, perfect for Windows 8 users and with the performance of the AMD A-Series APU supporting an excellent overall experience, " said Kevin Frost, vice president and general manager, Consumer PCs, Printing and Personal Systems, HP.
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Nissan's decision is to demonstrate its confidence in the integrity and performance of its battery system.
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While foreign investors consider it onerous, many still invest in the U.S. because of its clear legal system and a transparent property market, where price and performance data is easy to obtain.
With the Crucial v4 SSD, we've come up with a product that's designed to bring the most value out of a SATA 2 system without paying for extra performance that can't be used.
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Germany's overhaul of the benefit system, by contrast, raises the supply of labour, relaxing the limits on the country's economic performance.
Marvell's powerful HD media system-on-chip platform offers quick application launching, award-winning video performance and high-resolution graphics-all within the Android TV itself and at affordable costs, without the burden of an expensive gaming console.
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Dutch thinks the real selling point is Networkcar's global positioning system, which allows owners to locate a stolen vehicle or even monitor the location and performance of the family car using a Web site.
To help ensure optimal temperature and humidity control, as well as performance in each of the fresh food zones, the T9000 has Samsung's Triple Cooling system.
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The LINPACK benchmark program, running on the part of the system that employs 68, 544 CPUs installed on the K computer being configured, recorded the world's top performance of 8.162 petaflops.
ENGADGET: Fujitsu K supercomputer now ranked fastest in the world, dethrones China's Tianhe-1A
Building on a decade of ORNL and DDN optimizations for the Lustre file system, the DDN system will be configured with Lustre performance of over one terabyte per second to meet the demands of Titan's 299, 008 CPU cores.
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"Huge focus in a system like this goes into its graphics performance" Dell goes through dual graphics-card setup, saying it's faster than any gaming PC or gaming console.
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