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Intel develops teraflop-chip
News Intel has developed a teraflop chip with supercomputer-like performance but has "no plans" to bring the 80-core chip to market. Justin Rattner, Intel CTO, said the chip is a "key milestone" in computer performance... [12 Feb 2007]
IBM wins supercomputing crown
News Now, 398 of the systems on the list have crossed the teraflop threshold, and the total performance has reached 1.13 petaflops, or quadrillion calculations per second. After two and a half years at the top of a list of... [09 Nov 2004]
Hunt for alien life struck by denial-of-service
News Five years after its launch, Seti has cost about $500,000, but the project has produced more raw computing power than a 12 teraflop IBM ASCI White system, which would normally cost about $110m. The University of... [30 Jul 2004]
IBM speeds past HP to supercomputing supremacy
News The 1-teraflop threshold, crossed by 12 systems three years ago, now has been attained by 242 systems. IBM has regained dominance on a list of the 500 fastest supercomputers and has also landed two unusual prototypes in... [21 Jun 2004]
Met Office unveils new supercomputers
News The NEC machines possess processing power of just under a teraflop, or a trillion calculations per second, with 927.6 million instructions per second (mips) achieved and a theoretical maximum of 960 mips. [21 Jun 2004]
IBM and Intel power ahead with supercomputing
News More than a tenth of the total comes from the Japanese Earth Simulator, a behemoth with a 36 teraflop rating. IBM and Intel have edged ahead on a quickly changing list of the 500 fastest supercomputers. [23 Jun 2003]
What is the fastest computer in the world?
News Bearing in mind a teraflop is a trillion operations per second, that's a lot of power. Boffins from around the world are descending upon Heidelberg in Germany to discover which supercomputer is the most powerful in the... [19 Jun 2002]
Compaq gone fission for French supercomputer
News Compaq is contractually bound to replace this machine with a twelve teraflop supercomputer within the next five years, to further improve performance. Compaq itself is building a six teraflop... [18 Feb 2002]
IBM smashes supercomputer processing record
News It is the first time a computer has broken the ten teraflop barrier. IBM has smashed its own supercomputing target with ASCI White, a machine capable of 12.3 trillion calculations per second. The machine, built to order... [30 Jun 2000]
Compaq wins contract with French Atomic Energy
News The supercomputer will be up and running in 2001 and will be based on Compaq's Tru64 operating system running on the Alpha-processing platform with a five teraflop capacity. The French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) has... [24 Feb 2000]
