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ISS said Spirit investors would be better off rejecting that deal in order to prod the airline’s board to negotiate more seriously with JetBlue Airways Corp. JBLU -0.92% , which has launched a competing, hostile bid that ISS said is financially superior. Spirit in February agreed to be acquired by Frontier in a cash-and-stock transaction originally valued at $2.9 billion, a deal that would combine the two budget carriers. JetBlue later emerged with a $3.6 billion cash…

The US Department of Energy's Frontier supercomputer has been crowned world's fastest at the International Supercomputing Conference 2022 in Hamburg, Germany, and is the first system to enter the exascale era of computing.The US Department of Energy partnered with Cray Inc in 2019 to build a new supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, which already housed the Titan and Summit supercomputers – the latter being the most powerful until it was surpassed by Japan's Fugaku in 2020.Where other members at…

Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: Top500: the US' AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer becomes the fastest in the world, topping 1.102 exaflops/second, overtaking Japan's Fugaku by a wide margin — AMD-powered systems now comprise five of the top ten fastest supercomputers — The AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer … Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: Top500: the US' AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer becomes the fastest in the world, topping 1.102 exaflops/second, overtaking Japan's…

The world’s first exascale supercomputer is not just the world’s most powerful by a margin but it is also the most efficient. Frontier, developed by US’s designated supercomputer facility, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, is the world’s first supercomputer to cross the performance margin of 1 exaflops. With this, the supercomputer has surpassed Fugaku, belonging to Japan’s Riken Centre for Computational Science, as the world’s most powerful supercomputer right now.…

US-built supercomputer titled 'Frontier' on Monday dethroned Japan's 'Fugaku' (developed by the Riken Institute and Fujitsu), as the world's fastest machine with 1.1 exaflops of performance on the 59th TOP500 list published by an international conference of computer experts.The Frontier supercomputer at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the first to achieve an unprecedented level of computing performance known as exascale, a threshold of a quintillion calculations per second.Frontier features…

(Image credit: ORNL)The AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer is now the first officially recognized exascale supercomputer in the world, topping 1.102 ExaFlop/s during a sustained Linpack run, ranking first on the newly-released Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers. The system not only overtakes the previous leader, Japan's Fugaku, but blows it out of the water — in fact, Frontier is faster than the next seven supercomputers on the list, combined. Notably, while Frontier hit 1.1 ExaFlops during a sustained…

Yager has confirmed the release date for The Cycle: Frontier alongside details of a pre-season event. The Cycle: Frontier officially releases June 22 but before that, there will be a pre-season event kicking off June 8. This pre-season will be available on both Steam and the Epic Games Store and will run for a period of two weeks. According to the Steam listing: “The Cycle: Frontier is a free-to-play PvPvE Extraction Shooter driven by suspense and danger. Prospect for resources and other riches on an abandoned alien…

A woman gave birth to a baby aboard a Frontier flight from Denver International Airport on the way to Orlando, the airline said in a Facebook post. Diana Giraldo, a flight attendant aboard the plane, helped the woman to the restroom and aided in the birth, Frontier said Tuesday. Captain Chris Nye said that dispatch had them land early in Pensacola, with a gate and paramedics ready for the woman and her baby. Nye said that Giraldo’s actions were “exemplary” and “calm.” “The whole crew did a great job,” Nye said. The…

JetBlue JBLU 5.01% Airways Corp. plans to launch a hostile takeover attempt for discount carrier Spirit SAVE 3.85% Airlines Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, after Spirit rejected JetBlue’s $3.6 billion offer in favor of an existing deal with Frontier Airlines. ULCC 4.56% JetBlue plans to appeal directly to…

Motorola has announced that it will be hosting a launch event on May 10 at 2pm CST / 11:30am IST in China. The Lenovo-owned smartphone brand has not hinted at any of the smartphones which might be unveiled during this upcoming launch event. However, recently, a couple of Motorola handsets have been part of the rumour mill, and these may be the smartphones that the brand launches. One of these handsets is the Moto G82, which has been allegedly doing the rounds at various certification sites. The other is expected to be a…