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News A supercomputer, able to do in one second what it would take a human with a calculator 10 million years to achieve, could be running next summer. The National Science Board has approved a $53m grant to build a... [10 Aug 2001]
Supercomputer helps cut drug research time
Case Study Scientists at the facility are using an IBM supercomputer - developed and maintained by high performance computing integrator OCF - to dramatically cut analysis time from weeks to minutes.silicon.com Public Sector [18 Sep 2007]
Supercomputer boosts brain research
Case Study Researchers at Cardiff University are using their supercomputer to significantly improve the efficiency of their brain analysis work. The team has been using the supercomputer for 10 months to support... [14 Jun 2007]
Supercomputer to power F1 team BMW-Sauber
News Formula One team BMW-Sauber has revealed the secret weapon in its attempt to move up the grid in 2007 - the fastest supercomputer in industrial use in Europe. The supercomputer's architecture has been... [04 Jan 2007]
Supercomputer boost for AT&T Williams F1 team
News The AT&T Williams Formula One team has completed the installation of a new supercomputer to boost the aerodynamic development on its 2007 racer. The supercomputer can run at up to eight teraflops and is... [20 Jul 2007]
Top University Builds World-Leading Supercomputer
White Paper University of Cambridge's existing supercomputer was struggling to keep up with the demands being placed on it. The University went out to tender for a new supercomputer, based on an EU procurement... [25 Jun 2008]
Sun breaks through supercomputer haze with Constellation
News After a slight delay a new, somewhat unusual, supercomputer from Sun Microsystems will get formally unveiled next week. We have been somewhat absent in the supercomputer market in the last few years. IBM... [14 Feb 2008]
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... [09 Nov 2001]
Compaq unveils super supercomputer
News Compaq will today take the wraps of its latest supercomputer, Terascale. The computer is powered by 3,000 Alpha EV68 processors housed in 750 separate servers connected by high-speed Quadric interconnections. [29 Oct 2001]
Reading Uni feels the supercomputer power
News The University of Reading now has the most powerful academic supercomputer in the UK, overtaking former frontrunner Cambridge University, following a substantial upgrade to its blade-based system. The... [11 Jul 2007]
Leading University Creates UK's Fastest Academic Supercomputer Through Collaborative Partnership
White Paper The university implemented Dell PowerEdge servers in a high performance computing cluster that has become the fastest academic supercomputer in the country. Cambridge University has had supercomputers for use in complex... [11 Oct 2008]
Green supercomputer is 'go' in Scotland
News A supercomputer 10 times more energy efficient and up to 300 times faster than its traditional equivalents has been unveiled in Edinburgh. Called Maxwell, the computer has been built at the University of Edinburgh and... [20 Mar 2007]
Cambridge boffins unveil Dell supercomputer
News It has been ranked as Europe's seventh fastest supercomputer, and the 20th fastest in the world, according to the top 500 list.silicon.com Public Sector Darwin only cost £2m to install but the fastest... [22 Nov 2006]
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. Sun was trying to incorporate a number of... [22 Nov 2006]
Compaq unveils $7m supercomputer
News BIRC's supercomputer will be completed early in 2003 and will be ranked among the top 80 most powerful supercomputers in the world. Compaq is already heavily involved in the life sciences arena having done a deal with... [12 Mar 2002]
