Design News - February 7, 2005

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What do you get when you package up to 256 Intel® Itanium®2 processors into a single computer node? The answer is the architecture for one of the fastest supercomputers in the worldand one heck of a thermal-management challenge. That's what engineers at Silicon Graphics (SGI) discovered as they put together the design for the new SGI® Altix®3700 Bx2 supercomputer.

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Ask The Search Engineer
Calamities
The Case of the Lamed Lothario
Designer's Corner
Sensing technique exploits a change in voltage
Expo
Motion Control/ Power Transmission
Fluid Power
Software/Hardware
Featured Product
Stacked Modules Hold Flash, RAM
Flash
New and Notable Product Design
Gadget Freak
Bryan Had a Feeling He Was Not in Kansas Anymore
Mail
Readers Sound Off
My View
Laser Pointer or Light Saber?
Rant
End the Paper Pushing
Slant
Molding Process Cuts Costs
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Next Up: Specialized Searches

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