supercomputer the most powerful
Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab
Photo This photo story is a peek into one of the world's great supercomputer labs housed inside the US's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a leading research institution and the site of the reactor in which plutonium for the first atomic bombs was refined... [14 Jul 2008]
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]
Cheat Sheet: Supercomputing
Cheat Sheet Blue Gene/L is the most powerful supercomputer in existence but the criminals behind the Storm Worm have created a botnet containing millions of PCs with a combined computing power greater than that of Blue Gene/L's. [20 Nov 2007]
Beep beep! Move over for IBM's super Roadrunner
News IBM had the fastest computer on the Top500 Supercomputer Sites list, which was released yesterday at the SC07 conference in Reno, US. The top machine, the Blue Gene/L supercomputer - located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - is capable of... [13 Nov 2007]
Is this the malware mother of all botnets?
News Criminals behind the Storm Worm have created a botnet containing millions of PCs which have a combined computing power greater than the most powerful supercomputer in existence. The question remains, now that they have the world's most powerful... [12 Sep 2007]
Nasa gets supercomputer booster
News CSC will provide support services to Nasa's Advanced Supercomputing Division at the Ames Research Center, which operates some of the most advanced and powerful supercomputers in the world. Nasa has signed a deal with Computer Sciences Corporation... [24 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 world's most powerful supercomputer is the IBM... [11 Jul 2007]
IBM supercomputers getting peta all the time
News IBM has devised a new Blue Gene supercomputer - the Blue Gene/P - that will be capable of processing more than three quadrillion operations a second, or three petaflops - a potential record. The development of Blue Gene/P seems certain to extend... [26 Jun 2007]
NPO Saturn Gets Top Positions in the Field of Aircraft Construction Due to Intel-Based IT Solutions
White Paper With peak performance of 922 Gflops and LINPACK performance of 769 Gflops, the system is one of the most powerful of its kind within Russian industrial companies and the fourth highest ranking computer in the Top 50 supercomputer listing at CIS... [19 Apr 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Man vs machine - who's smarter?
Comment Just recently a well-known figure in the industry proposed that 2019 will see a supercomputer that will be more powerful and capable than us. A senior political figure recently stated: "The creativity of the human mind will always be superior to... [19 Jun 2006]
ac3: Triumph in Teraflops - ac3 Breaks Australia's Teraflops Barrier
White Paper When they realized how powerful the cluster was, they became determined to develop a high-performing supercomputer that would place in the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful computers. Owned by the government of New South Wales (NSW), ac3 is... [23 Mar 2006]
Economical Intel Itanium 2-Based Server Platform Speeds National Interest Problem Solving at Renowned Research Center
White Paper To maintain this competency in high performance computing (HPC), LLNL has turned to Linux-driven, highly scalable clusters that perform like a single supercomputer, but are much more affordable. To meet these national interest challenges, LLNL... [17 Jun 2005]
Apple to dump Big Blue
News The chips show up in everything from networking equipment to IBM servers to the most powerful supercomputer, Blue Gene/L. Apple has used IBM's PowerPC processors since 1994 but will begin a phased transition to Intel's chips, sources familiar with... [06 Jun 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. IBM plans to begin selling on 18 February a powerful... [11 Feb 2005]
Supercomputing for students
News Nottingham University will start building what it claims is the biggest academic supercomputer, with over 1,000 processors, in Europe next week. Dr Frazer Pearce, who is leading the project, said the £1.3m supercomputer consists of 512 AMD Opteron... [10 Feb 2005]
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