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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: teraflop, supercomputer, U.K., scientist

New supercomputers overhaul top ranks

June 22, 2005 Stays at the top of supercomputer hill are becoming increasingly short-lived, as five of the top 10 systems are new to the list. Photos: The fastest supercomputer TAGS: teraflop, Dave Turek, Blue Gene, supercomputer, Sandia National Laboratories, Blue Gene/L, IBM Corp., Intel Itanium, AMD Opteron, Intel Xeon, HP, Apple Computer, 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, supercomputer, supercomputing, Cray Inc., Jaguar, benchmarking, x86 processor, Intel Itanium, IBM Corp., AMD, conference, Intel, HP

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, power consumption, Intel Xeon, supercomputer, Intel, flash memory, manufacturing, Intel Core 2 Duo, notebook computer, CEO, server, video

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

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.

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, supercomputing, IBM Corp., rank, calculation

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, teraflop, Cray Inc., IBM POWER5, supercomputing, IBM Corp., calculation

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

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

IBM claims fastest supercomputer title--for now

September 29, 2004 Sure, 36.01 trillion calculations per second is pretty fast. But some say SGI could eventually beat that. TAGS: Blue Gene/L, Dave Turek, supercomputer, teraflop, Silicon Graphics Inc., Apple Xserve, IBM Corp., Intel Itanium, calculation, NEC Electronics Corp., Apple Computer, Intel

SGI to make dual-core Altix in late 2005

December 22, 2004 The high-performance computer's next edition will be revamped to run Intel's dual-core Itanium chips. TAGS: SGI Altix, Silicon Graphics Inc., Montecito, Intel Itanium, teraflop, dual-core, supercomputing, bus, high-performance, Germany, IBM Corp., Intel, router, memory, HP
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