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Economical Intel Itanium 2-Based Server Platform Speeds National Interest Problem Solving at Renowned Research Center
White Paper To maintain this competency in high performance computing (HPC), LLNL has turned to Linux-driven, highly scalable clusters that perform like a single supercomputer, but are much more affordable. To meet these national interest challenges, LLNL... [17 Jun 2005]
Apple to dump Big Blue
News The chips show up in everything from networking equipment to IBM servers to the most powerful supercomputer, Blue Gene/L. Apple is set to announce that it's scrapping its partnership with IBM and switching its computers to Intel's microprocessors... [06 Jun 2005]
IBM to sell supercomputing server
News That was the case for the p5-575's star customer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's ASC Purple, a supercomputer for predicting whether nuclear weapons will continue to work as they age. IBM plans to begin selling on 18 February a powerful... [11 Feb 2005]
Supercomputing for students
News Nottingham University will start building what it claims is the biggest academic supercomputer, with over 1,000 processors, in Europe next week. Dr Frazer Pearce, who is leading the project, said the £1.3m supercomputer consists of 512 AMD Opteron... [10 Feb 2005]
Apple supercomputer breaks the sound barrier
News A US Army contractor has purchased a $5.8m, 1,566-server supercomputer from Apple - a real-world cousin to an academic system that briefly appeared high on a list of the most powerful machines. In November, a machine called System X with 1,100 dual... [22 Jun 2004]
GM 'crash hot' on IBM supercomputer
News The system, twice as fast as an earlier IBM supercomputer at GM, is "most likely the most powerful system of any industrial company," said Frank Roney, IBM's lead salesman for the GM account, in a news conference. [22 Apr 2004]
Triumph in Teraflops-ac3 Breaks Australia’s Teraflops Barrier
White Paper When the center’s staff realized how powerful the cluster was, they became determined to develop a high-performing supercomputer that would place in the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful computers. [20 Apr 2004]
Who built the fastest computer in the world?
News The supercomputer gene pool has expanded. Of the top 10 systems on a list of the 500 most powerful supercomputers announced Sunday, three machines are new, one is upgraded, and two are based on processors that have never before appeared on the list... [17 Nov 2003]
It's worth $1.6bn to Sony and it will power PS3 and more
News Since early 2001, Sony Computer Entertainment, IBM and Toshiba have teamed to develop Cell, a new multimedia processor touted as a 'supercomputer on a chip'. The new chip, touted to be a thousand times more powerful than the processor in a... [22 Apr 2003]
Sun supercomputers start to purr with Wildcat
News Sun has shown more ambition than success with its supercomputer effort, though its presence on the Top 500 list of the most powerful supercomputers more than doubled from 37 systems in June 2002 to 88 this month. [18 Nov 2002]
NEC scoops supercomputer Met Office deal
News The current holder of the world's most powerful supercomputer title, NEC, has beaten off arch-rival IBM to scoop a deal with the Met Office worth £27.5m over three years. The SX-6 NEC supercomputer is technologically similar to the NEC Earth... [26 Jul 2002]
Supercomputer contest: The results
News Twice a year, in June and November, the supercomputer community compiles a list of the world's 500 most formidable computers. NEC has beaten IBM in the battle to build the world's most powerful computer. [21 Jun 2002]
What is the fastest computer in the world?
News Boffins from around the world are descending upon Heidelberg in Germany to discover which supercomputer is the most powerful in the world. Cray Research is one of the best known supercomputer makers but all the major Unix vendors have a finger in... [19 Jun 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Grid computing
Cheat Sheet Compaq gone fission for French supercomputer http://www.silicon.com/a51388 SGI goes live with supercomputer http://www.silicon.com/a50720 Some grid enthusiasts talk about the second version of the internet where data is exchanged in real time... [11 Apr 2002]
Compaq unveils $7m supercomputer
News BIRC's supercomputer will be completed early in 2003 and will be ranked among the top 80 most powerful supercomputers in the world. Compaq is already heavily involved in the life sciences arena having done a deal with US-based firm Celera Genomics... [12 Mar 2002]
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