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Cheat Sheet: Supercomputing
Cheat Sheet Oh yes, supercomputers usually cost millions of pounds to build and install - with the subsequent electricity bills to keep the computer cool and running being pretty pricey too. All that hardware doesn't make supercomputers sound very eco-friendly… [20 Nov 2007]
Beep beep! Move over for IBM's super Roadrunner
News IBM once again dominated the competition in semi-annual rankings of supercomputers - but the big news is what's coming next year. This means supercomputers are now assembled through racks of smaller servers woven together through thousands of high... [13 Nov 2007]
Sun dropped from Darpa supercomputer project
News Big Blue is also engaged in a wide variety of processor, communication and memory projects that it believes will boost supercomputers. The funding will help them complete supercomputers capable of churning 10 quadrillion floating-point operations... [22 Nov 2006]
IBM wins supercomputing crown
News After two and a half years at the top of a list of the world's fastest supercomputers, NEC's Earth Simulator has finally been dethroned: IBM's Blue Gene/L officially is the new king of the hill. Top-end supercomputers use thousands of processors... [09 Nov 2004]
IBM wins fastest supercomputer competition
News By comparison, since 2002, NEC's Earth Simulator has held the top spot on a ranking of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers while running at a speed of 35.9 teraflops. IBM has claimed first place in a supercomputer speed competition with an... [30 Sep 2004]
IBM speeds past HP to supercomputing supremacy
News IBM has regained dominance on a list of the 500 fastest supercomputers and has also landed two unusual prototypes in the top 10. Supercomputers are at the high end of the much larger high-performance technical computing market, which is growing... [21 Jun 2004]
GM 'crash hot' on IBM supercomputer
News The performance of GM's new machine - nine trillion calculations per second, or nine teraflops - is equivalent to the fourth-fastest system on the most recent list of top 500 supercomputers, though that list will be updated at least once by the... [22 Apr 2004]
IBM downplays Linux legal obstacles
News I fully expect Linux will continue to be a very successful system in the marketplace, and its influence will continue to grow in the industry in everything from small devices to powerful supercomputers and everything in between," he said. [07 Aug 2003]
IBM and Intel power ahead with supercomputing
News IBM and Intel have edged ahead on a quickly changing list of the 500 fastest supercomputers. Big Blue continues to lead when it comes to the largest fraction of the total computing horsepower. Hewlett-Packard leads the herd with 159 systems on the... [23 Jun 2003]
Big Blue builds a big computer
News Indeed, thanks to research projects in biotechnology and to government spending, the adoption of supercomputers has grown, helping boost not only research but also the bottom lines of companies such as IBM, which build the machines. [16 Aug 2002]
Supercomputer contest: The results
News IBM has just sold one of its Blue Ocean supercomputers to the Naval Oceanographic Office to help with research into finding a vaccine for malaria. Taking the third and fourth place slots is HP with its Alpha Server supercomputers. [21 Jun 2002]
IBM supercomputer so fast it's ridiculous
News The main focus of the research is Blue Gene/L, a supercomputer expected to operate at approximately 200 teraflops (200 trillion operations per second) - larger than the total computing power of the top 500 supercomputers in the world today. [09 Nov 2001]
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