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Roadrunner supercomputer keeps ahead of the race
News The new IBM computer, known as Jugene, installed at Forschungszentrum Juelich in Germany hit 825.5 teraflop/s, or trillions of floating point operations per second, which was good enough for third place on the list. [23 Jun 2009]
Tech driving McLaren's hunt for F1 wins
News A unit is either one teraflop of CFD power or one hour of fan time in the wind tunnel. McLaren Racing, the company behind current Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton's Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team, is using IT to... [16 Apr 2009]
Purdue University Selects Intel Xeon Processors for "Steele" - A New 26.8-Teraflop Community HPC Cluster
White Paper Purdue University wanted to capitalize on the purchasing power of several research groups to build a powerful shared cluster at a lower cost than multiple departmental clusters and select an industry-standard processing architecture that... [31 Jan 2009]
Cell Broadband Engine, Teraflop Processors and Disruptive Technologies 2008-2012
White Paper The Aerospace and Defense (A&D) industry is facing a unique opportunity to achieve breakthrough power in signal and data processing, security, simulation, modeling and surveillance with multi-core processors. [09 Apr 2008]
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. Justin Rattner, Intel CTO, said the chip is a "key milestone" in computer performance... [12 Feb 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Looking back from 2020
Comment It is now hard to imagine what a big deal the TeraFlop supercomputer was in 2005 - costing around $2m - because today we can all afford one. The first-prize winner is Ian McNairn, an IT professional, trained biologist... [16 Dec 2004]
IBM wins supercomputing crown
News Now, 398 of the systems on the list have crossed the teraflop threshold, and the total performance has reached 1.13 petaflops, or quadrillion calculations per second. After two and a half years at the top of a list of... [09 Nov 2004]
Hunt for alien life struck by denial-of-service
News Five years after its launch, Seti has cost about $500,000, but the project has produced more raw computing power than a 12 teraflop IBM ASCI White system, which would normally cost about $110m. The University of... [30 Jul 2004]
IBM speeds past HP to supercomputing supremacy
News The 1-teraflop threshold, crossed by 12 systems three years ago, now has been attained by 242 systems. IBM has regained dominance on a list of the 500 fastest supercomputers and has also landed two unusual prototypes in... [21 Jun 2004]
Met Office unveils new supercomputers
News The NEC machines possess processing power of just under a teraflop, or a trillion calculations per second, with 927.6 million instructions per second (mips) achieved and a theoretical maximum of 960 mips. [21 Jun 2004]
IBM and Intel power ahead with supercomputing
News More than a tenth of the total comes from the Japanese Earth Simulator, a behemoth with a 36 teraflop rating. IBM and Intel have edged ahead on a quickly changing list of the 500 fastest supercomputers. [23 Jun 2003]
What is the fastest computer in the world?
News Bearing in mind a teraflop is a trillion operations per second, that's a lot of power. Boffins from around the world are descending upon Heidelberg in Germany to discover which supercomputer is the most powerful in the... [19 Jun 2002]
Compaq gone fission for French supercomputer
News Compaq is contractually bound to replace this machine with a twelve teraflop supercomputer within the next five years, to further improve performance. Compaq itself is building a six teraflop... [18 Feb 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: IBM goes large, Napster puts its case, and why Lane left Oracle
Comment The project calls for 1, 3, 10, 30 and 100 teraflop systems to be built over a number of years. IBM has made a couple of recent announcements that show it is still at the forefront of IT hardware development. [28 Aug 2000]
IBM smashes supercomputer processing record
News It is the first time a computer has broken the ten teraflop barrier. IBM has smashed its own supercomputing target with ASCI White, a machine capable of 12.3 trillion calculations per second. The machine, built to order... [30 Jun 2000]
