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Roadrunner supercomputer keeps ahead of the race
News Despite the Jaguar nipping at its heels, Roadrunner continues to speed past the supercomputing pack. The IBM supercomputer housed at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory, known as... [23 Jun 2009]
Photos: The world's fastest supercomputers revealed
Photo The Roadrunner supercomputer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory took the top spot on the biannual TOP500 supercomputer list - a position it's held since June 2008. Roadrunner is able to carry out more... [17 Nov 2008]
Why green tech is more influential than ever
News IBM's chief engineer Don Grice who made number 15 on the list, for example, was chosen for the hybrid blade-based architecture he has developed for the Roadrunner supercomputer. Roadrunner - which is... [08 Oct 2008]
Don Grice
AS Profile IBM lifer Don Grice is chief engineer of Big Blue's $100m Roadrunner supercomputer at the US Department of Energy's Los Alamos national laboratory. Named after New Mexico's state bird, Roadrunner is... [07 Oct 2008]
Roadrunner runs away with supercomputing prize
News Roadrunner has topped the Top500 supercomputers released yesterday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany. Roadrunner, the world's fastest supercomputer, can perform one... [19 Jun 2008]
IBM smashes the supercomputing petaflop
News Named 'Roadrunner', the supercomputer was built for the US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration, and will primarily be used for US nuclear weapons simulations. Roadrunner runs... [11 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]
Beep beep! Move over for IBM's super Roadrunner
News The company is working on a computer nicknamed 'Roadrunner' that will combine Cell processors - a family of chips found inside the PlayStation 3 - and processors from Advanced Micro Devices. Roadrunner,... [13 Nov 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.11.06
Round-Up You might be forgiven for thinking that sounds like it might be Roadrunner's least successful chat up line ever but in fact it was a silicon.com headline accompanying a story this week about a mobile phone which can tell... [03 Nov 2006]
"Beep beep, time to make a baby"
News Proving that truth is often stranger than fiction, a mobile phone that rings to inform its user she is ovulating has been launched in Japan, with other 'female-friendly' functionality. Would-be mothers can key data on menstruation dates... [31 Oct 2006]
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]
CA giving it the big 'IAM'
News He said: "We definitely see that as an opportunity but at the moment I don't see us going down the hosting route," adding CA already has partnerships in place with service providers such as AOL, RoadRunner and Yahoo! [18 Nov 2005]
Are spam blacklists killing legitimate emails?
News In February, Microsoft's MSN accidentally blocked incoming messages from rival ISPs, including AOL Time Warner's RoadRunner broadband service and EarthLink. Spam has become such a vexing problem that, if current trends... [02 May 2003]
MSN blocks emails from rival ISPs
News MSN has nearly 120 million email customers, including those using the vastly popular Hotmail service, but last week those users may have noticed a cessation of emails from friends and relatives sending mail from AOL's... [03 Mar 2003]
GTE accuses US cable operators of ISP monopoly
News Large ISPs such as RoadRunner and @Home have signed lucrative bundling deals with the likes of AT&T and Time Warner. GTE yesterday attacked US cable operators who it claims are trying to monopolise Internet service... [15 Jun 1999]
