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IBM gets chips to chill out in water
...other coolants." The water-cooled chip, which is intended for use in supercomputers, is five to 10 years away from being commercially available. "But before... Read more
Jun 6, 2008
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Nasa supercomputer gets rocket power
Nasa is upgrading its supercomputer to cater for an expected surge in workload associated with future missions... Read more
May 9, 2008
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Sun breaks through supercomputer haze with Constellation
After a slight delay a new, somewhat unusual, supercomputer from Sun Microsystems will get formally unveiled next week. Photo stories Check... Read more
Feb 14, 2008
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UK's fastest supercomputer unveiled
The largest and most advanced supercomputer in the UK has been unveiled in Edinburgh. Got two seconds? Make... Read more
Jan 15, 2008
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Roadrunner runs away with supercomputing prize
Roadrunner has topped the Top500 supercomputers released yesterday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany. Roadrunner, the... Read more
Jun 19, 2008
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IBM smashes the supercomputing petaflop
Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop - 1,000 trillion floating point operations... Read more
Jun 11, 2008
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Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab
Another one of the lab's supercomputers, this is IBM's Blue Gene, currently rated the 74th most powerful... Read more
Jul 14, 2008
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Photos: The world's fastest supercomputers revealed
...to slice through quadrillion tasks every second, the searing performance of US supercomputers once again monopolised a list of the world's processing powerhouses. The... Read more
Nov 17, 2008
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Jaguar races to fastest supercomputer glory with AMD's juice
AMD processors power the top three fatest supercomputers in the world, according to a new list published late last week... Read more
Nov 17, 2009
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Photos: The top five UK supercomputing projects
The big daddy of all UK supercomputers is Hector, at the University of Edinburgh. Hector can handle 63 trillion... Read more
May 18, 2009
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