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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]
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, NEC's Earth Simulator is... [08 May 2003]
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 1.5-mile-high stack of laptops. [26 Jun 2007]
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 Pete Domenici earlier this year. [06 Sep 2006]
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]
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 associated with future... [09 May 2008]
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 technological projects for the... [22 Nov 2006]
IBM supercomputer to pass one quadrillion operations mark
News Nicknamed "Blue Gene", the supercomputer will be capable of more than one quadrillion operations per second (1 petaflop), which will outstrip Big Blue's last supercomputer offering, Deep Blue, by 1,000 times and the average desktop machine by two... [06 Dec 1999]
IBM goes with Linux for Blue Gene supercomputer
News IBM's $100m Blue Gene program is directed at creating a new family of supercomputers that will be able to perform a quadrillion calculations per second (one petaflop) by late 2005 or early 2006. Linux will be the main operating system for IBM's... [25 Oct 2002]
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 International Supercomputing... [19 Jun 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]
