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Jaguar races to fastest supercomputer glory with AMD's juice
News Housed at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Jaguar can reach a performance speed of 1.75 petaflop per second. AMD processors power the top three fatest supercomputers in the world,... [17 Nov 2009]
Roadrunner supercomputer keeps ahead of the race
News The computer can process 1.105 petaflop/s, or quadrillions of floating point operations per second, according to the Top500 Linpack benchmark. Hot on its heels for the second year in a row is the Cray XT5 Jaguar system... [23 Jun 2009]
IBM's latest supercomputer to harness 20 petaflops
News The earlier machine, delivered in June to the Energy Department, broke the one petaflop barrier. Seven months after IBM delivered the world's fastest supercomputer, it has announced an even speedier one with the... [03 Feb 2009]
Photos: The world's fastest supercomputers revealed
Photo The only other computer to break the petaflop barrier was the Cray XT5 supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, known as Jaguar. The colossi of computing took their places on the supercomputing podium today. [17 Nov 2008]
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AS Profile Named after New Mexico's state bird, Roadrunner is twice as fast as the current IBM Blue Gene number one supercomputer and the first to break the petaflop barrier, meaning it is capable of performing one thousand... [07 Oct 2008]
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. UK weather forecasting body the Met Office has... [04 Aug 2008]
Roadrunner runs away with supercomputing prize
News It's the first system to reach 1.026 petaflops - one petaflop is equal to a quadrillion, or one thousand trillion, calculations per second. Roadrunner has topped the Top500 supercomputers released yesterday at the... [19 Jun 2008]
IBM smashes the supercomputing petaflop
News Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop - 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second - twice as fast as the world's previous fastest computer, Blue Gene. [11 Jun 2008]
Nasa supercomputer gets rocket power
News The US space agency's Pleiades programme aims to give peak performance of 1,000 trillion operations per second - or one petaflop - by 2009. Nasa is upgrading its supercomputer to cater for an expected surge in workload... [09 May 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Supercomputing
Cheat Sheet More on Blue Gene later but IBM is also currently working on a computer nicknamed 'Roadrunner' that will be capable of performing more than a quadrillion operations - or a petaflop - when it's fully operational. [20 Nov 2007]
Beep beep! Move over for IBM's super Roadrunner
News Roadrunner, to be delivered to the US Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory in summer 2008, will be capable of performing more than a quadrillion operations, or a petaflop, when it's fully operational. [13 Nov 2007]
IBM supercomputers getting peta all the time
News Blue Gene/P is designed to continuously operate at more than one petaflop in real-world situations. Put another way, a Blue Gene/P operating at a petaflop is performing more operations than a... [26 Jun 2007]
Sun dropped from Darpa supercomputer project
News The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) will continue to fund petaflop-class supercomputer projects at Cray and IBM but Sun Microsystems is out of the running. Darpa, which funds computing and... [22 Nov 2006]
Big Blue scores bid to build world's fastest PC
News The supercomputer, for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, will be the world's fastest machine and is designed to sustain a performance level of a "petaflop" or one quadrillion calculations per second, said US senator... [06 Sep 2006]
IBM details one petaflop supercomputer
News Blue Gene" is an ambitious project to expand the horizons of supercomputing, with the ultimate goal of creating a system that can perform one quadrillion calculations per second, or one petaflop. Today's fastest machine,... [08 May 2003]
