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House approves supercomputing bill

April 26, 2005 Bill requires multiple agencies to shift grants toward "basic research and education" in high-performance computing. TAGS: high-performance computing, supercomputing, high-performance, agency

Start-up lures Sun supercomputing researcher

September 6, 2005 Semiconductor company ClearSpeed names John Gustafson its chief technology officer of high-performance computing. TAGS: supercomputing, Sun Microsystems Inc., high-performance computing, chief technology officer, high-performance, researcher

Photo: IBM's p5-575 server

November 9, 2004 IBM's p5-575, a specialized server geared for high-performance computing, has eight 1.9GHz Power5 processors. TAGS: IBM POWER5, supercomputing, high-performance computing, IBM Corp., high-performance, server, photograph

HP and Microsoft eye supercomputer market

June 26, 2007 Tech giants want to give high-performance computers more "mass market" appeal by making them easier to deploy, support and manage. TAGS: supercomputer, high-performance computing, high-performance, supercomputing, HP, Sun Microsystems Inc., conference, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., server

InfiniBand could boost Linux supercomputing

June 21, 2004 A group of companies bands together to bring the high-speed networking technology to the open-source OS. TAGS: InfiniBand, high-performance computing, supercomputing, high-performance, Linux cluster, supercomputer, Linux, Blue Gene/L, networking technology, Red Hat Inc., open source, operating system, IBM Corp.

Microsoft confirms supercomputing plans

June 23, 2004 With a Windows edition for high-performance clusters, the software giant hopes to outflank Linux rivals. TAGS: supercomputing, Myricom, high-performance computing, high-performance, Linux, AMD, Intel, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, IBM Corp.

SGI plugs in Windows for compute clusters

January 11, 2007 Supercomputing specialist focused on Linux agrees to support Microsoft's OS for lower-end server clusters. TAGS: Silicon Graphics Inc., high-performance computing, supercomputing, Intel Xeon, high-performance, Intel Itanium, general manager, Microsoft Corp., Intel, Linux, HP, operating system, server, Microsoft Windows, 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, supercomputing, Sun Microsystems Inc., supercomputer, switch, Blue Gene/L, InfiniBand, high-performance computing, blade, storage system, data storage, high-performance, port, networking, server, IBM Corp.

Chinese supercomputer headed to top ranks

June 4, 2004 A Chinese computer, using a cluster approach that sidesteps trade barriers against the spread of supercomputing technology, is expected to rank high on the next list of fastest machines. TAGS: teraflop, supercomputer, high-performance computing, supercomputing, high-performance, AMD, Intel Itanium 2, Cray Inc., approach, AMD Opteron

Taming the supercomputer

December 17, 2003 IBM big-iron visionary Tilak Agerwala wants to take the pain out of supercomputing. TAGS: high-performance, supercomputer, high-performance computing, supercomputing, science, IBM Corp.

IBM to reveal Opteron server

June 23, 2003 Fans of clustered supercomputing machines will get a first glimpse of the dual-processor, rack-mounted system built around AMD's Opteron chip at this week's ClusterWorld show. TAGS: supercomputing, AMD Opteron, AMD, Cray Inc., high-performance, high-performance computing, Intel Xeon, SuSE, IBM Corp., Linux, 64-bit, leader, Intel, operating system, server

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

Universities, research centers retrench after hacks

April 15, 2004 Academic supercomputing labs continue this week to clean up Linux and Solaris servers targeted by unknown attackers, as law enforcement officials investigate. TAGS: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, supercomputing, university, attacker, high-performance computing, staff, Sun Solaris, high-performance, project, attack, server, Linux

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, IBM AIX, lab, IBM Corp., high-performance computing, high-performance, memory, server

IBM unveils Opteron server

June 24, 2003 Fans of clustered supercomputing machines get a first glimpse of the dual-processor, rack-mounted system built around AMD's Opteron chip. TAGS: Dave Turek, AMD Opteron, supercomputing, petroleum, Intel Xeon, AMD, high-performance, IBM Corp., high-performance computing, Intel, server, New York, leader, Linux

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

IBM supercomputing goes retro

October 25, 2004 Big Blue puts a new twist on an older technology. But will it steal thunder from the computing giant's other big machines? TAGS: Cray Inc., IBM POWER5, supercomputer, supercomputing, IBM Corp., Blue Gene/L, NEC Electronics Corp., high-performance computing, computing, high-performance
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