performance ibm system in news
Met Office gets £33m supercomputer
News The IBM supercomputer will be one of the most powerful in the UK and will be capable of a peak performance approaching one petaflop - equivalent to more than 100,000 PCs. Part of the system will also be used for collaborative scientific research... [04 Aug 2008]
Roadrunner runs away with supercomputing prize
News This year - the 31st time the list has been put together - the honour of top supercomputer goes to IBM's Roadrunner, which is housed at the US Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory. Last year's most powerful computer, Lawrence... [19 Jun 2008]
£81m cost of botched gov't shared services
News The NAO report points to inadequate contract management and poor initial implementation within the department and says the DfT was over optimistic in setting its timetable and goals for the programme with its main IT supplier IBM. [23 May 2008]
IBM to use DNA to shrink chip size
News Scientists at IBM are conducting research into arranging carbon nanotubes - strands of carbon atoms that can conduct electricity - into arrays with DNA molecules. Greg Wallraff, an IBM scientist and a lithography and materials expert working on the... [21 Feb 2008]
Sun breaks through supercomputer haze with Constellation
News The architecture will also allow Sun, according to the company, to challenge IBM in the rankings for the world's top supercomputers. IBM has dominated the supercomputer rankings with a series of Blue Gene systems for the last several years. [14 Feb 2008]
India top choice for UK outsourcing
News He said global suppliers such as Accenture, HP and IBM would have to play catch-up to match the skills, flexibility and quality of work of Indian firms such as Infosys, TCS and Wipro. He told silicon.com: "India offers all of the economic... [11 Jan 2008]
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. IBM helped design and build the Cell chip and has been looking for ways to expand its commercial potential. [13 Nov 2007]
Reading Uni feels the supercomputer power
News The world's most powerful supercomputer is the IBM Blue Gene/L system developed for the US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. The university has upgraded its IBM BladeCenter with 700 JS21 blades, equipped with 3,040... [11 Jul 2007]
Big Blue to unwrap extra-brainy chips
News IBM is set to unveil a new way of putting memory on processors which it thinks will dramatically improve performance. Starting with its 45-nanometer processors next year, IBM will use embedded DRAM (dynamic RAM) instead of SRAM (static RAM) on its... [14 Feb 2007]
Big Blue scores bid to build world's fastest PC
News IBM has won a bid to build a supercomputer called Roadrunner that will include not just conventional Opteron chips but also the Cell processor used in the Sony Playstation, silicon.com sister site CNET News.com has learned. [06 Sep 2006]
IBM positions database to "take out" Oracle
News IBM is today expected to release a near-ready version of its latest database server, code-named Viper, a product designed to snatch market share from rival Oracle and fend off open source challengers. [06 Apr 2006]
US Air Force signs $79m deal with Accenture
News Under the deal, Accenture will implement a Oracle system with help from Deloitte Consulting, Grant Thornton, IBM and Lockheed Martin. The Defense Enterprise Accounting Management System, Deams, is a pilot scheme between the Air Force and the US... [28 Mar 2006]
Torvalds issues new Linux kernel
News Linus Torvalds released a new Linux kernel on Monday that supports features in IBM's Cell processor, includes Oracle software for clustered databases and improves how the open source operating system runs on multiprocessor systems. [22 Mar 2006]
Office 12: Microsoft to bolster BI credentials
News IBM is coming out with its own corporate dashboard software as part of its Websphere line. On Monday, the company will share some of its plans in that area, including the outlines of a new server-based system for managing Excel spreadsheets. [24 Oct 2005]
IBM targets Sun with entry-level Unix servers
News Launching four new servers, three of them based on the new Power5+ processor, as well as a 16-way system for the high-end, IBM claimed leadership in power and performance in the low-end Unix systems market. [04 Oct 2005]
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