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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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
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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.
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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.
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Congress approves supercomputing bill
November 19, 2004
Following report of security inadequacies, Congress passes bill for $165 million in new supercomputing funds.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Microsoft wraps up code for 'supercomputer' Windows
June 9, 2006
Company's Compute Cluster Server is to bring Windows closer to the world of supercomputing.
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