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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

Two records in one day for SGI supercomputer

October 27, 2004 The public record has been eclipsed by a faster result yet to be announced, CNET News.com has learned. Photos: SGI's Columbia supercomputer TAGS: Silicon Graphics Inc., teraflop, supercomputer, Intel Itanium, IBM Corp., record, California

Energy Dept. goes on supercomputer spending spree

May 12, 2004 The department will buy a series of supercomputers from Cray, IBM and Silicon Graphics to be installed at national laboratories, the government has announced. TAGS: Cray Inc., teraflop, supercomputer, Silicon Graphics Inc., Blue Gene/L, lab, department, Japan, acquisition, IBM Corp., U.S.

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, flash memory, manufacturing, Intel Core 2 Duo, notebook computer, CEO, server, video

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., benchmarking, Jaguar, x86 processor, Intel Itanium, IBM Corp., AMD, conference, 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.

Virginia Tech beefs up Mac supercomputer

October 26, 2004 School is the second organization to pre-announce performance claims before the November release of a list of the world's fastest computers. TAGS: Apple Xserve, teraflop, supercomputer, supercomputing, Apple Computer, school, Apple Macintosh, server

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 Xeon, Intel Itanium, AMD Opteron, HP, Apple Computer, Intel

IBM supercomputer top-ranked blade machine

November 5, 2004 Barcelona's MareNostrum isn't the fastest supercomputer on Earth, but 20 teraflops with regular blade servers is nothing to sneer at. TAGS: teraflop, blade, supercomputer, blade server, Blue Gene/L, Barcelona, Cray Inc., IBM Corp., server

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

Blue Gene, Linux top supercomputing list

November 9, 2004 Open-source software and off-the-shelf hardware make strong showing among the best of the biggest. TAGS: teraflop, Blue Gene/L, supercomputing, Blue Gene, supercomputer, IBM Corp., Intel Itanium, Intel Xeon, calculation, Japan, Linux, AMD, HP, Intel, server

IBM revs supercomputer in rankings race

November 4, 2004 Blue Gene/L performance likely to far outpace NEC's Earth Simulator in contest of high-powered machines, News.com has learned. Photos: SGI's rival Columbia supercomputer TAGS: Blue Gene/L, teraflop, supercomputer, Cray Inc., Silicon Graphics Inc., ranking, IBM Corp., NEC Electronics Corp., agency, server

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., rank, supercomputing, calculation

IBM set to take supercomputing crown

November 5, 2004 A new incarnation of Blue Gene/L can perform 70.7 trillion calculations per second, Big Blue says. Photos: IBM's Blue Gene/L TAGS: Blue Gene/L, teraflop, supercomputing, incarnation, supercomputer, Cray Inc., IBM Corp., calculation, NEC Electronics Corp., U.S.

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, high-performance computing, AMD Opteron, two-processor, Sun Sparc, AMD, x86 processor, chip company, Sun Microsystems Inc., 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., supercomputing, supercomputer, Blue Gene/L, InfiniBand, switch, blade, high-performance computing, storage system, data storage, port, operation, high-performance, networking, server

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, supercomputing, dual-core, bus, high-performance, Germany, Intel, IBM Corp., memory, router, HP

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., IBM Corp., Apple Xserve, calculation, Intel Itanium, NEC Electronics Corp., Apple Computer, Intel

SGI claims lead in supercomputer race

October 26, 2004 Computer maker evolves from its "Jurassic" era with a Linux-based machine. NASA gives it a thumbs-up. Photos: SGI's Columbia supercomputer TAGS: Silicon Graphics Inc., supercomputer, Intel Itanium 2, teraflop, Intel Itanium, IBM Corp., computer company, California, Microsoft Office, Linux, server, Intel
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