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AMD takes top three places in supercomputer list
News The top-performing Intel-based supercomputer, the Tianhe-1 at the National SuperComputer Center in Tianjin, China, came in at number five, behind the IBM Blue Gene/L- based Jugene supercomputer at Germany's Jülich Research Centre.
[November 16, 2009, 14:46]
IBM breaks the petaflop barrier
News Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop — 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second — twice as fast as the world's previous fastest computer, Blue Gene.
[June 10, 2008, 11:09]
Symantec: Evolved Storm worm attack brewing
News The Storm worm botnet, a network of compromised computers, has been estimated to control between one million and five million machines, which one researcher said makes it more powerful than IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer.
[May 6, 2008, 15:22]
Recommendations for Porting Open Source Software (OSS) to Blue Gene/P
White Papers Migrating applications from a Linux cluster to IBM's Blue Gene/P can be a beneficial effort, but it is not an entirely painless effort. The degree of difficulty derives from the fact that Blue Gene/P does not come with the OSS that is installed...
[April 9, 2008, 1:02]
Dr. IBM prescribes Blue Gene to hunt down HIV
Blog Comment This reminds me somewhat of the Umbrella Corporation from Resident Evil. Lets just hope things dont turn out the same way lol. Im sure IBM can be trusted. If it works as well that would be a massive step forward and could be implemented with other...
[April 4, 2008, 10:05]
Dr. IBM prescribes Blue Gene to hunt down HIV
Blog This project gives the Blue Gene supercomputer another chance to flex its muscles and, I’m told, combines a new experimental characterisation aimed at targeting the infection process itself. It’s not often that you hear the acronyms IBM and HIV in...
[April 3, 2008, 15:33]
IBM's Roadrunner to smash supercomputing records
News The top machine, the Blue Gene/L supercomputer — located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory — is capable of 478.2 trillion operations, or 478.2 teraflops a second. Lawrence Livermore's Blue Gene/L, for instance, sat atop the list six months...
[November 13, 2007, 7:24]
Trainspotting, South London style
Blog In the words of DCI Gene Hunt's manual of modern policing, advice was given to the remainder and peace restored. London's blue light brigade was swiftly summoned. Earlier this year we moved from Tower Hill to Southwark, only to find ourselves just...
[October 12, 2007, 22:43]
Storm worm: More powerful than Blue Gene?
News The Storm worm botnet has been estimated to control between one million and five million computers, which one researcher says makes it more powerful than IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer. At the lowest estimate of one million computers, Guttman...
[September 12, 2007, 9:23]
Reading supercomputer tackles climate change
News The world's most powerful supercomputer is the IBM Blue Gene/L system developed for the US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. The University of Reading now has the most powerful academic supercomputer in the UK...
[July 11, 2007, 12:55]
Top 500 supercomputers announced
News But one familiar supercomputer, IBM's Blue Gene/L at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, again topped the Top500 Supercomputer Sites list with 131,072 processors, staying far ahead of its closest competitors by achieving speeds of 280.6...
[June 27, 2007, 10:38]
HP and Microsoft eye supercomputer market
News On Monday, IBM announced that its latest Blue Gene computer, the Blue Gene/P, was capable of processing more that three quadrillion operations a second, or three petaflops. Blue Gene/P is designed to continuously operate at more than one petaflop...
[June 26, 2007, 14:03]
IBM supercomputer achieves petaflop
News IBM has devised a new Blue Gene supercomputer — the Blue Gene/P — that will be capable of processing more than three quadrillion operations a second, or three petaflops, a possible record. Blue Gene/P is designed to continuously operate at more...
[June 26, 2007, 10:29]
Sun seeks supercomputing glory
News In the last Top 500 Supercomputer list, published in November, IBM's Blue Gene topped the list with 280 teraflops. Constellation v Blue Gene/L Bechtolsheim extrapolated on how a hypothetical Constellation system would fare against a similarly...
[June 26, 2007, 9:47]
IBM set to boost chip memory
News IBM uses SOI to reduce current leakage from the transistors it builds for processors such as the Power 5, and had used embedded DRAM in certain chips such as its Blue Gene processors. IBM on Wednesday plans to unveil a new way of putting memory on...
[February 14, 2007, 8:06]
AMD climbs supercomputing league table
News The top system on the list is again IBM's Blue Gene/L, with a speed of 280 teraflops. AMD has gained ground on Intel in a list of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers, but Intel's new Xeon 5100 "Woodcrest" processor has quickly carved out a place...
[November 14, 2006, 8:41]
IBM wins bid to build hybrid supercomputer
News Its sister lab and sometimes rival, Lawrence Livermore, has had the Big Blue affinity, housing the current top-ranked supercomputer, Blue Gene/L. Although customers can buy the current Blue Gene/L systems or rent their processing power from IBM...
[September 6, 2006, 10:05]
Opteron flexes supercomputing muscles
News IBM had the most systems on the list, with 243, led by the most powerful supercomputer in the world, the Blue Gene/L system at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in California. IBM also had the top three systems on the list — with the Blue Gene Watson...
[June 28, 2006, 16:05]
Putting your brain on a microchip
News Today's supercomputer, such as IBM's Blue Gene, processes about 10^14 operations per second, but with six orders of magnitude more wattage. The Blue Brain project, a collaboration of IBM and the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, in Lausanne...
[May 12, 2006, 11:35]
UK to get 100 teraflop supercomputer
News The world's fastest supercomputer is Blue Gene/L, based at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, with a top speed of 367 teraflops. The government is giving £52m to a project to build one of the world's fastest supercomputers in...
[April 3, 2006, 17:35]
