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Will supercomputer speeds hit a plateau?

News No, but increasing power consumption is a growing concern, say tech heavyweights IBM and Sun Microsystems.

Tuesday, July 10 2007 11:44 AM

Asia's top supercomputer loses ground

News The region's speediest high-performance computer system has dropped out of the world's top 10 fastest supercomputers list.

Thursday, June 28 2007 05:58 PM

Tags: Supercomputing

Supercomputers getting super-duper

News The winning machine in the latest Top500 list outperforms all the systems on the November 1998 list combined. And faster machines are arriving more quickly too.

Friday, June 21 2002 10:56 AM

IBM plans 20 petaflop supercomputer

News Big Blue says the new system, named Sequoia, will smash old performance records in two years.

Wednesday, February 04 2009 08:54 AM

Tags: Desktops, Storage, Multiprocessor servers, Processors, IBM Corp., Security, National Nuclear Security Administration, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Computer, Sequoia

IBM wins hybrid supercomputer deal

News Big Blue will build a machine at Los Alamos lab that combines thousands of AMD Opteron and Cell chips.

Thursday, September 07 2006 08:57 AM

Tags: Processors, Servers, R&D

IBM to build Opteron-Cell hybrid supercomputer

News AMD chips in Los Alamos lab's Roadrunner system to be augmented with the PlayStation's processing brains.

Wednesday, September 06 2006 11:24 AM

Tags: Processors

IBM goes open source on supercomputers

News The company has integrated and open sourced a set of tools used on some of the world's top supercomputers.

Wednesday, August 06 2008 11:52 PM

Tags: Linux, Open source, Supercomputing, IBM Corp., IBM eServer BladeCenter, software, processor, supercomputer, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux software

IBM breaks the petaflop barrier

News Performing one quadrillion calculations per second, the Roadrunner supercomputer has parallels with the human brain, says a project team member.

Tuesday, June 10 2008 11:29 PM

Tags: Supercomputing, IBM Corp., Database, Business Process, Computer, U.S. Department of Energy, processor, U.S., barrier, Ethernet