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House approves supercomputing bill

April 26, 2005 Bill requires multiple agencies to shift grants toward "basic research and education" in high-performance computing. TAGS: supercomputing, high-performance computing, high-performance, agency

Start-up lures Sun supercomputing researcher

September 6, 2005 Semiconductor company ClearSpeed names John Gustafson its chief technology officer of high-performance computing. TAGS: supercomputing, high-performance computing, Sun Microsystems Inc., chief technology officer, high-performance, researcher

SGI plugs in Windows for compute clusters

January 11, 2007 Supercomputing specialist focused on Linux agrees to support Microsoft's OS for lower-end server clusters. TAGS: Silicon Graphics Inc., high-performance computing, Intel Xeon, supercomputing, Intel Itanium, high-performance, general manager, Linux, Intel, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., server, Dell, operating system, Microsoft Windows, HP

Windows for supercomputers likely out by fall

March 3, 2005 Microsoft aims to have first cluster version of Windows ready in time for supercomputing conference this fall, company says. TAGS: cluster, supercomputing, supercomputer, high-performance computing, high-performance, C# language, conference, Microsoft .NET, programming, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Intel

IBM to ship supercomputer system this month

February 11, 2005 Company plans to begin selling a powerful but power-hungry server specialized for supercomputing, CNET News.com has learned. TAGS: IBM POWER5, supercomputing, supercomputer, cluster, lab, IBM Corp., high-performance computing, IBM AIX, high-performance, computing, server, memory, Dell

AMD gains, Intel fights back on supercomputer list

November 13, 2006 Some joy for both chipmakers in the latest Top500 supercomputer list, which rates high-performance computing systems. TAGS: supercomputing, teraflop, supercomputer, high-performance computing, AMD Opteron, two-processor, x86 processor, AMD, Sun Sparc, chip company, Sun Microsystems Inc., high-performance, Intel, IBM Corp.

IBM to build Opteron-Cell hybrid supercomputer

September 5, 2006 AMD chips in Los Alamos lab's Roadrunner system to be augmented with the PlayStation's processing brains. TAGS: supercomputer, supercomputing, AMD Opteron, IBM eServer BladeCenter, IBM Corp., high-performance computing, blade, high-performance, Sony Playstation, AMD, U.S., Sony Corp., server

Supercomputer maker to buy Cray, change name

March 2, 2000 Tiny supercomputer firm Tera Computer plans to buy supercomputer behemoth Cray Research, acquired by SGI in 1996 and put up for sale last summer. TAGS: Cray Inc., supercomputer, Silicon Graphics Inc., supercomputing, acquisition, high-performance, sale, PC

Sun eyes supercomputing glory

June 26, 2007 The linchpin is a piece of hardware that conducts traffic between the servers, memory and data storage.Image: Sun's Constellation System TAGS: teraflop, supercomputer, Sun Microsystems Inc., supercomputing, Blue Gene/L, InfiniBand, switch, high-performance computing, blade, storage system, data storage, port, high-performance, networking, operation, server

SGI to make dual-core Altix in late 2005

December 22, 2004 The high-performance computer's next edition will be revamped to run Intel's dual-core Itanium chips. TAGS: SGI Altix, Silicon Graphics Inc., Montecito, Intel Itanium, teraflop, supercomputing, dual-core, bus, high-performance, Germany, IBM Corp., Intel, router, memory, HP
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