Roadrunner
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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.
Tags: Supercomputing, Multiprocessor servers, Processors, Operating systems, Cray Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Asia, India
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
Code Red offshoot packs a bigger punch
News A new worm, similar to Code Red but perhaps more virulent, is spreading across the Internet, infecting systems and potentially leaving them vulnerable to further attacks.
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.
Tags: Supercomputing, IBM Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Asia, Chip, Quad-core, AMD Opteron, supercomputer, U.S., barrier
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.
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.
Tags: Supercomputing, Personal Computers, Green IT, IBM Corp., Cell, India, Dual-core, Computer, U.S. Department of Energy, processor
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CA giving it the big 'IAM'
News The company's CEO said he has earmarked IAM for special attention above and beyond all other areas of the company's security division.
Tags: Digital signatures, Security applications/tools
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.
Tags: Supercomputing
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