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Roadrunner, Jaguar cement supercomp lead
News IBM's Roadrunner and Cray's Jaguar retain top two positions on latest Top500 supercomputer list, which also saw four new systems in the top 10.
Tags: Supercomputing, Multiprocessor servers, Cray Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Intel Corp., performance, processor, supercomputer, Germany
China, AMD working on Opteron supercomputer
News China plans to create the world's third most powerful supercomputer, which will also be among the first such machines to use the Opteron processor from U.S. chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
Will supercomputer speeds hit a plateau?
News No, but increasing power consumption is a growing concern, say tech heavyweights IBM and Sun Microsystems.
Tags: Supercomputing
Jaguar supercomputer races past Roadrunner in Top500
News Cray XT5 supercomputer known as "Jaguar" finally bests IBM after three tries. The top 10, while still dominated by supercomputers housed in the U.S., had just one newcomer.
Tags: Supercomputing, Teraflop, Cray Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Computer, Sandia National Laboratories, Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sun Microsystems Inc.
IBM plans 20 petaflop supercomputer
News Big Blue says the new system, named Sequoia, will smash old performance records in two years.
Tags: Desktops, Storage, Multiprocessor servers, Processors, IBM Corp., Security, National Nuclear Security Administration, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Computer, Sequoia
New IBM server offers supercomputer capability
News IBM will release a new high-end Unix server today, commercializing technology developed for nuclear weapons supercomputers.
IBM previews new supercomputing server
News The Power5-based system is part of Big Blue's push to oust Hewlett-Packard from the top spot in high-performance set-ups.
Tags: Supercomputing
IBM unveils Power5-based supercomputing server
News Each skinny server houses eight processors. Plug a few together, and voila! A high-performance machine.
Tags: Supercomputing
Big Blue flexes supercomputing muscle
News IBM and the US federal government will unveil on Wednesday a system that ranks as the world's most powerful supercomputer.
U.S. lab to harness penguin power
News The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory intends to build the world's most powerful Linux supercomputer, for use with national security projects.
It's Linux for IBM supercomputer project
News Linux gets the nod for Big Blue's upcoming "Blue Gene" supercomputers--a major endorsement for the operating system and the open-source computing model it represents.
Intel moves deeper into supercomputing
News Intel plans to dedicate US$36 million for basic research to improving the performance of supercomputers made from off-the-shelf parts as it continues to expand its reach in the very high end of the computer market.
Chinese supercomputer headed to top ranks
News A Chinese supercomputer, the Dawning 4000A, is expected to rank high on an upcoming list of the fastest machines, underscoring geopolitical effects of a new approach to high-performance computing.
IBM claims fastest supercomputer title--for now
News A Big Blue machine reclaims the title of fastest supercomputer, overtaking a Japanese computer that had caused shock waves.
Tags: Supercomputing
AMD works to chill out Opteron
News New technology will let server processors run cooler when idle, helping to reduce data loss and crashes.
Tags: Processors, Servers
