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IBM supercomputer pumps oodles of data

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

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.

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

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, Europe, Spain, Intel, HP

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.

NEC announces new vector supercomputer

October 18, 2006 Japanese company announces SX-8R machines, a vector system tailored for mathematical operations. TAGS: Cray Inc., Japanese company, NEC Electronics Corp., supercomputer

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, vendor, accounting, Japan, IBM Corp., China, Intel, server

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/L, Blue Gene, Germany, Europe, modeling, IBM Corp., scientist, U.S.

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.

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

Intel 'hacker' sentence expunged

March 4, 2007 Randall Schwartz, a former Intel contractor, has been cleared of a conviction for hacking into Intel systems. TAGS: conviction, supercomputer, contractor, sentence, Intel, hacking, password, security

New IBM supercomputer achieves petaflop

June 26, 2007 Big Blue breaks into the quadrillion calculation range with new Blue Gene/P supercomputer. TAGS: supercomputer, Blue Gene/L, rack, IBM Corp., IBM PowerPC, Sun Microsystems Inc., operation, Germany

IBM to help build $100 million supercomputer center

May 11, 2006 Will New York take California's spot as the center for chip design? The state certainly is giving it its best shot. TAGS: nanometer, nanotechnology, supercomputer, supercomputing, center, IBM Corp., semiconductor, New York, AMD

Week in review: Supercomputers and superheroes

June 29, 2007 Even with all the iPhone hype, supercomputers managed to grab headlines, as did security gurus who save us from villainous Web attacks. TAGS: supercomputer, Week in review, Apple iPhone, high-performance, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., security, server, Microsoft Corp.

Supercomputer start-up nets $21 million

October 4, 2006 SiCortex investment will go toward development and marketing of Linux cluster machines; debut is set for November. TAGS: Linux cluster, supercomputing, supercomputer, Linux, start-up

IBM's Roadrunner set to smash supercomputing marks

November 12, 2007 Top500 list of speediest machines is now out, but upcoming IBM computer will top a quadrillion operations a second--more than double what we can do today. TAGS: supercomputing, supercomputer, teraflop, Blue Gene/L, IBM Corp., India, operation, AMD, Intel, HP

IBM wins hybrid supercomputer deal

September 6, 2006 Big Blue will build a machine at Los Alamos lab that combines thousands of AMD Opteron and Cell chips. TAGS: supercomputer, AMD Opteron, IBM Corp., AMD, server, Sony Corp.

HP and Microsoft eye supercomputer market

June 26, 2007 Tech giants want to give high-performance computers more "mass market" appeal by making them easier to deploy, support and manage. TAGS: supercomputer, high-performance computing, high-performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., conference, IBM Corp., HP, Microsoft Corp., server

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: supercomputer, supercomputing, teraflop, AMD Opteron, high-performance computing, x86 processor, two-processor, Sun Sparc, AMD, chip company, Sun Microsystems Inc., Intel, high-performance, IBM Corp.
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