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Data center planning needs new paradigm

News Businesses need to factor in scalability, flexibility and focus more on keeping operational costs low to equip themselves for cloud environments, says IBM exec.

Tuesday, October 13 2009 07:21 PM

Tags: Data centers, Cloud computing, Cost control, IBM Corp., High-performance Computing Setup, software, Information Technology, Larry Ellison, Nanyang Technological University, Cloud computing

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

Asia's 'bright' HPC future will take time

News Region's high-performance computing has promising future but it will take some time for Asia to catch up with the West, industry watchers say.

Friday, June 19 2009 07:10 PM

Tags: Supercomputing, Cloud computing, NEC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp., Region, Asia, India, Australia, Japan

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

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

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.

How Intel's supercomputer almost used HP chips

News In the 1990s, Intel seriously considered building the world's fastest supercomputer with a rival's processors, but the Pentium Pro arrived in time after all.

Wednesday, September 23 2009 10:55 AM

Tags: Personal Computers, Notebooks and tablets, Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp., Virtualization, Virtual Machine, Chip, Server, processor, supercomputer

Wolfram Alpha gets supercomputer boost

News Two supercomputers--one of them the 66th fastest in the world at present--will power the Wolfram Alpha site for search, calculation, and data crunching.

Wednesday, May 13 2009 12:03 PM

Tags: Processors, Business applications, Wolfram Research, Dell PowerEdge Server, Dell PowerEdge, Server, processor, supercomputer, Dell Computer Corp., Processors

Asia back on top 10 supercomp list

News Region's speediest high-performance computer is now housed in India; ranks No. 4 on the latest Top500 list of world's fastest machines.

Friday, November 16 2007 05:35 PM

Tags: Supercomputing

Asia slides further in supercomp rankings

News Forty-eight supercomputers from the region made it to this year's Top500 list, down from 58 in November. India retains title as host to Asia's fastest machine.

Wednesday, June 18 2008 09:15 PM

Tags: Supercomputing, Multiprocessor servers, Hewlett-Packard Co., Asia, India, Japan, performance, supercomputer, China, U.S.

Supercomputer ranking method faces revision

News On the eve of a new list ranking the world's fastest computers, momentum is building for a change in the measuring process.

Monday, June 21 2004 09:44 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

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