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Photos: SGI's Columbia supercomputer

October 27, 2004 SGI's supercomputer sets a public record which has been eclipsed by a faster result yet to be announced. TAGS: Silicon Graphics Inc., supercomputer, photograph

IBM supercomputer pumps oodles of data

March 9, 2006 The ASCI Purple supercomputer hit a new peak. TAGS: supercomputer, storage system, IBM Corp., AMD

U.K. to spend $90 million on supercomputer

April 3, 2006 Hector will have top speed of 100 teraflops and be used by British scientists in their research. TAGS: supercomputer, teraflop, U.K., scientist

Photos: IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer

November 5, 2004 Sixteen racks of IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer can perform 70.7 trillion calculations per second. TAGS: Blue Gene/L, supercomputing, supercomputer, IBM Corp., photograph

Energy Dept. to unveil details on supercomputer effort

April 12, 2004 The federal agency is targeting tax day to reveal which institution the next big thing in supercomputing will call home. TAGS: supercomputer

Tech giants rev up their supercomputers

June 26, 2007 With a new Top 500 list about to be unveiled, hardware heavyweights jockey for position. TAGS: supercomputer, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Supercomputer version of Windows nears release

May 9, 2006 Microsoft releases a near-final version of Windows Computer Cluster Server 2003 TAGS: supercomputer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Memory-shared supercomputer lands in Spain

March 31, 2006 Finis Terrae, Europe's largest memory-shared supercomputer, will tackle international research projects and be furnished by HP and Intel. TAGS: supercomputer, Intel Itanium 2, high-performance computing, high-performance, Spain, Europe, Intel, HP

Linux Networx names top sales exec

March 31, 2005 Supercomputer maker has hired Rene Copeland to fill the newly created post of executive vice president for global sales and marketing. TAGS: Linux NetworX, supercomputer, Cray Inc., vice president of sales, executive vice president, exec

Microsoft demonstrates supercomputing Windows

November 8, 2004 A forthcoming version of Windows Server is designed for building supercomputers from clusters of PCs. TAGS: supercomputer, supercomputing, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, server, operating system, PC

Sun knocked out of DARPA supercomputer project

November 22, 2006 IBM and Cray each get multimillion-dollar awards to keep working on completing supercomputers, but Sun is left out of the running. TAGS: Cray Inc., supercomputer, supercomputing, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., U.S.

New supercomputer finds home in Europe

March 14, 2006 Research center in Germany hopes Julicher Blue Gene/L can help stem the brain drain of top scientists to U.S. TAGS: supercomputer, Blue Gene, Blue Gene/L, Germany, Europe, modeling, scientist, IBM Corp., U.S.

NEC's supercomputer sits by your side

September 13, 2005 A version of the SX-8 can calculate 16 billion operations per second. Surprisingly, it's small enough to fit under a desk. TAGS: supercomputer, NEC Electronics Corp.

U.S. pads lead in global supercomputing ranking

November 14, 2005 Panicky U.S. officials can calm down; the country's lead in supercomputers remains strong and is growing. Photos: Supercomputers at SC05 TAGS: supercomputer, supercomputing, AMD Opteron, IBM Corp., U.S., AMD, Intel

Cray wins British nuclear weapons deal

January 25, 2006 Cray has sold an XT3 supercomputer to the U.K.'s Atomic Weapons Establishment. TAGS: Cray Inc., supercomputer, AMD Opteron, weapon, U.K., AMD

Windows supercomputer version delayed

April 6, 2005 Microsoft had hoped to deliver it by fall, but now says a final version won't arrive until early next year. TAGS: supercomputer, clustering, launch, high-performance, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Opteron climbs supercomputer rankings

June 28, 2006 AMD's server chip shows up in more and more high-performance supercomputers ranked on latest Top 500 list. TAGS: supercomputer, AMD Opteron, Intel Itanium, AMD, accounting, vendor, Japan, IBM Corp., China, Intel, server

Study: Supercomputer clusters shortchange security

November 12, 2004 Group says popular technique threatens U.S. security by sidelining other approaches more suited to decryption and the like. Photo: IBM's unusual design Photos: The fastest computer on Earth--for... TAGS: supercomputer, supercomputing, Dave Turek, Cray Inc., agency, government, IBM Corp., researcher, conference, security, U.S., photograph

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

U.K.'s fastest supercomputer unveiled

January 15, 2008 Hector handles 63 trillion calculations per second, the equivalent processing power of 12,000 desktops. But it can't touch Blue Gene/L. TAGS: supercomputer, teraflop, Blue Gene/L, calculation, U.K.
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