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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

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.

Linux Networx plugs in supercomputing storage

March 1, 2006 Tailored packages of hardware, software and file management are integrated into its LS series of Linux supercomputer clusters. TAGS: Linux NetworX, supercomputing, supercomputer, Linux

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: supercomputing, supercomputer, Dave Turek, Cray Inc., agency, IBM Corp., government, researcher, conference, U.S., security, photograph

Supercomputing at your fingertips

November 12, 2004 Group says popularity of clusters threatens U.S. security. Also: IBM unveils a new supercomputing server. Photos: IBM's Blue Gene/L Photos: Barcelona's big blade TAGS: supercomputing, Blue Gene/L, supercomputer, Silicon Graphics Inc., blade, IBM Corp., Barcelona, high-performance, server, Linux, photograph, U.S., security, HP, Microsoft Windows

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: supercomputer, teraflop, supercomputing, Blue Gene/L, IBM Corp., India, operation, AMD, HP, Intel

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

Congress approves supercomputing bill

November 19, 2004 Following report of security inadequacies, Congress passes bill for $165 million in new supercomputing funds. TAGS: supercomputing, Cray Inc., Tennessee, supercomputer, bill, U.S., president, security

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, semiconductor, IBM Corp., New York, AMD

Blue Gene/L tops its own supercomputer record

October 27, 2005 Blue Gene/L already is the world's fastest supercomputer, according to the Top500 list that ranks such machines. TAGS: Blue Gene/L, supercomputer, Cray Inc., teraflop, IBM POWER5, supercomputing, IBM Corp., calculation

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.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

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

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: supercomputer, cluster, supercomputing, high-performance computing, high-performance, C# language, conference, Microsoft .NET, programming, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Intel

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, high-performance computing, IBM Corp., blade, Sony Playstation, high-performance, U.S., AMD, Sony Corp., server

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, computing, high-performance, server, memory, Dell

Second Blue Gene system rises up the ranks

June 13, 2005 A second Blue Gene/L supercomputer posts speed results of 91.3 trillion calculations per second, IBM plans to announce. TAGS: Blue Gene, Blue Gene/L, teraflop, supercomputer, IBM Corp., supercomputing, rank, calculation

Which supercomputers rule?

June 27, 2007 Latest top 500 ranking of the speedy machines includes old favorites like IBM's BlueGene/L, plus a few surprises. TAGS: teraflop, supercomputer, supercomputing, Cray Inc., Jaguar, benchmarking, Intel Itanium, x86 processor, IBM Corp., AMD, conference, Intel, HP

Blue Gene/L tops own supercomputing record

March 23, 2005 Machine doubles its performance by doubling its size. Put another 135.5 trillion notches in the handle, for the number of calcs per second. TAGS: Blue Gene/L, supercomputing, rack, supercomputer, IBM Corp., calculation
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