Teraflop
86 Stories
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).
Intel shows off 80-core processor
News The chip unveiled at IDF works, but there are a lot of hurdles to overcome before an 80-core chip shows up in a living room.
Tags: Processors, Multiprocessor servers
Intel pledges 80 cores in five years
News CEO Paul Otellini reveals plans at IDF to ship a "teraflop" processor around the end of decade with 80 cores.
Tags: Processors
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
India unveils new supercomputer
News India joined the ranks of U.S., Japan and China in the quest for high-performance computing this week with the launch of its latest domestic supercomputer.
NSF to build supercomputer grid
News The National Science Foundation sets IBM and others to work on a grid that will connect supercomputer clusters nationwide into a single large computing resource. Intel's McKinley chip will be the engine.
IBM, Intel chew up supercomputer list
News Big Blue hounds No. 1 HP by increasing the number of its systems on the list from 131 to 158. Meanwhile, the number of systems based on Intel processors jumps from 56 to 119.
The shape of grids to come
Insight In Grid Computing utopia, supercomputing tasks can be tackled by a giant smorgasbord of loosely-scattered computers. The reality is likely to be different.
Tags: Servers, Networking
Sun fuels cosmic research
News Sun Microsystems has agreed to fund the next generation of SETI@Home, the University of California's distributed computing project that lets computer users donate unused processor cycles to aid the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
China launches first super machine
News China's Legend Group launched the country's first world-class domestic supercomputer.
U.S. firm announces fastest-ever PC chip
News A Silicon Valley firm has discussed a processor suitable for desktop PCs that is faster than anything available today from major chip makers.
Which supercomputers rule?
News Latest top 500 ranking of the speedy machines includes old favorites like IBM's BlueGene/L, plus a few surprises.
Tags: Supercomputing
Blue Gene, Linux top supercomputing list
News Open-source software and off-the-shelf hardware make strong showing among the best of the biggest.
Tags: Supercomputing, Linux
Supercomputer weathers through Asia, mid-East
News The Asia Disaster Preparedness Center is relying on a supercomputer from IBM to do modeling for disasters such as tsunamis and mudslides.
Tags: Supercomputing, Data centers, Databases
