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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

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.

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, HP, AMD, Intel

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, supercomputing, supercomputer, Cray Inc., x86 processor, benchmarking, Jaguar, Intel Itanium, IBM Corp., AMD, conference, Intel, HP

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

Intel pledges 80 cores in five years

September 26, 2006 CEO Paul Otellini reveals plans at IDF to ship a "teraflop" processor around the end of decade with 80 cores. TAGS: Paul Otellini, teraflop, quad-core, Intel Xeon, power consumption, Intel, supercomputer, manufacturing, flash memory, Intel Core 2 Duo, CEO, notebook computer, server, video

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, supercomputing, Sun Microsystems Inc., InfiniBand, Blue Gene/L, high-performance computing, switch, blade, storage system, data storage, high-performance, port, IBM Corp., networking, operation
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