Roadrunner
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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.

Tuesday, June 23 2009 04:57 PM

Tags: Supercomputing, Multiprocessor servers, Cray Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Intel Corp., performance, processor, supercomputer, Germany

China supercomputer in world top 10

News update Opteron-based Windows HPC machine from the Shanghai Supercomputer Center is ranked No. 10--the best showing from Asia--in the latest Top500 list.

Tuesday, November 18 2008 01:32 PM

Tags: Supercomputing, Multiprocessor servers, Processors, Operating systems, Cray Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Asia, India

IBM's Roadrunner set to smash supercomputing marks

News 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.

Tuesday, November 13 2007 09:46 AM

Tags: Supercomputing

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

IBM's Roadrunner tops supercomputer list

News Big Blue captures half of the top-10 slots on the list of the world's most powerful computers, including the No. 1 spot with the first computer to break the petaflop barrier.

Thursday, June 19 2008 12:45 AM

Tags: Supercomputing, Personal Computers, Green IT, IBM Corp., Cell, India, Dual-core, Computer, U.S. Department of Energy, processor

Roadrunner pips Jaguar on supercomputer list

News Two systems, including one based on x86 chips, have become the first ever to break the petaflop barrier in the latest Top500 supercomputer list.

Tuesday, November 18 2008 02:18 AM

Tags: Supercomputing, IBM Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Asia, Chip, Quad-core, AMD Opteron, supercomputer, U.S., barrier

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.

Tuesday, November 17 2009 10:39 AM

Tags: Supercomputing, Teraflop, Cray Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Sandia National Laboratories, Computer, 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.

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

Microsoft, Red Hat trot out competing cluster software

News Microsoft has released the public beta of Windows HPC Server 2008, while rival Red Hat announced the Red Hat HPC Solution.

Wednesday, November 14 2007 11:26 AM

Tags: Supercomputing

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

Windows starts to show some supercomputing strength

News Software maker cracks top 25 for the first time, with hopes that a new version of high-end Windows will take it even further.

Friday, June 20 2008 01:15 AM

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Supercomputing, Server, Windows Cluster, server rack, Microsoft Windows Server, supercomputer, Microsoft Windows, marketing, Linux

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 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

MS restricts Hotmail to kill spam

News Microsoft's MSN Hotmail, a free Web-based e-mail service, has tightened restrictions on daily outbound messages sent by subscribers, a tactic it says will help curb spam.

Tuesday, March 25 2003 08:43 AM