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HP dominates supercomputing leaderboard

...and Intel have edged ahead on a quickly changing list of the 500 fastest supercomputers. Hewlett-Packard leads the herd with 159 systems on the... Read more

23 June, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

AMD climbs supercomputing league table

...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... Read more

14 November, 2006 by Stephen Shankland

IBM cements its supercomputing dominance

...increasingly likely to be short-lived. In the latest list of the 500 fastest supercomputers, released on Wednesday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Heidelberg... Read more

22 June, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

Blue Gene/L cruises past 100 teraflop barrier

...installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, already topped a list of the 500 fastest supercomputers last November with a sustained performance of 70.7 teraflops... Read more

24 March, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

US urged to take supercomputing beyond clusters

...system, are sweeping the industry and now account for 296 of the 500 fastest supercomputers, according to a list released on Monday. But the United... Read more

15 November, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

SGI claims supercomputing victory

...Simulator, which since 2002 has led a list of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers. IBM's test, performed on 16 September, also is likely... Read more

27 October, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

IBM goes retro to bridge the supercomputing divide

...NEC's Earth Simulator vector system has led a list of the 500 fastest supercomputers for two years. IBM's move has caught Cray's... Read more

26 October, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

Big Blue breaks 36 Teraflop barrier to take supercomputing speed lead

...has held the top spot on a ranking of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers while running at a speed of 35.9 teraflops. "The... Read more

30 September, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

Blue Gene unfolds at Japan lab

...in the top 10 on most recent list of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers. The AIST system is twice the size of the current... Read more

7 September, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

Cray supercomputer goes dual-core

...ASCI Red, which in the late 1990s led the list of the 500 fastest supercomputers. That machine, like IBM's Blue Gene/L now under... Read more

30 July, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

Linux supercomputer to simulate space for NASA

...machine from NEC now ranked No. 1 on a list of the 500 fastest supercomputers. The new supercomputer is part of a NASA collaboration with... Read more

28 July, 2004 by Ed Frauenheim

IBM dominates supercomputing list

IBM has regained dominance on a list of the 500 fastest supercomputers and has also landed two unusual prototypes in the top... Read more

22 June, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

Supercomputers to run Windows

...Japan's Earth Simulator. Dozens of machines in a list of the 500 fastest supercomputers run Linux, including five of the top 10. Only two... Read more

25 May, 2004 by Ina Fried and Stephen Shankland

SCO takes on US government supercomputers

...Cluster ranks seventh on the November 2003 ranking of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers. Livermore also will be the site that houses IBM's... Read more

22 March, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

IBM sews up second Blue Gene deal

...processors, ranked at No. 73 on the most recent list of the 500 fastest supercomputers. Lofar is expected to begin in initial operations in 2006... Read more

23 February, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

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