supercomputer calculations
Roadrunner runs away with supercomputing prize
News Roadrunner, the world's fastest supercomputer, can perform one thousand trillion calculations per second. This year - the 31st time the list has been put together - the honour of top supercomputer goes to IBM's Roadrunner, which is housed at the US... [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]
New Oil-Technology Becomes Real With Dell Cluster
White Paper To be able to perform the powerful electromagnetic signal calculations, EMGS chose to buy a new supercomputer from Dell - The SBL High Performance Computing Cluster, containing 530 Blade-type servers, each with two Intel Xeon processors and a... [31 May 2008]
Red Bull F1 racing up the grid
News Using a combination of computer aided design, wind tunnel analysis and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) the team uses a supercomputer to deal with the data produced. Steve Nevey, business development manager for Red Bull Technology, said: "We... [07 Mar 2008]
UK's fastest supercomputer unveiled
News The largest and most advanced supercomputer in the UK has been unveiled in Edinburgh. The supercomputer is based at the University of Edinburgh's Advanced Computer Facility and will cost £113m over six years. [15 Jan 2008]
Supercomputer boost for AT&T Williams F1 team
News Like other teams, Williams uses the supercomputer for Computational Fluid Dynamics simulation work which requires billions of calculations to be made to simulate airflow on a 3D virtual model. The AT&T Williams Formula One team has completed the... [20 Jul 2007]
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 supercomputer ranks 36th in the latest Top500... [11 Jul 2007]
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. The super-chip - about the size of a fingernail - has the ability to deliver trillions of calculations per second... [12 Feb 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 developed by Switzerland-based Dalco while the... [04 Jan 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. Sun was trying to incorporate a number of innovative technologies into... [22 Nov 2006]
UK supercomputer gets upgrade
News The supercomputer used by UK academics to tackle some of the thorniest scientific challenges has had its capacity doubled. The third and final phase of the UK National Academic Supercomputer - dubbed HPCx - has been formally accepted into service... [08 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 Pete Domenici earlier this year. [06 Sep 2006]
University of Hong Kong HPC Cluster Speeds Up Research and Makes TOP500 Supercomputer List With Intel Xeon Processors
White Paper As more research projects ranging from nano-technology to large scale statistical simulations come to rely on supercomputing simulations and calculations for answers, the University of Hong Kong (HKU) needed to build a supercomputing cluster that... [17 Jun 2005]
Supercomputer tackles severe weather warnings
News The new supercomputer has the performance of around 8,000 home PCs, with a theoretical peak power of 16 billion calculations per second per processor, and it will allow the Met Office to put more data into higher resolution weather forecasting... [13 Apr 2005]
IBM to sell supercomputing server
News That was the case for the p5-575's star customer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's ASC Purple, a supercomputer for predicting whether nuclear weapons will continue to work as they age. The lab needed systems with large amounts of memory for... [11 Feb 2005]
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