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Big Blue flexes supercomputing muscle

...ranks as the world's most powerful supercomputer. The pair will declare ASCI White open for business during a dedication ceremony to be held at... Read more

15 August, 2001 by John G.Spooner

IBM debuts commercial supercomputer

...able to process 12.3 trillion calculations per second. IBM said the ASCI White computer, which is 30,000 times faster than the average personal... Read more

24 July, 2000 by ZDNet

HP dents IBM supercomputer dominance

...on the list. The fastest machine on the list is IBM's ASCI White, a nuclear-weapons simulation machine at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory... Read more

21 June, 2001 by Stephen Shankland

IBM makes available $110m ASCI White supercomputer

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21 July, 2000 by Dominic Maher

How Intel's supercomputer almost used HP chips

...list of supercomputers from June 1997 until November 2000, when IBM's ASCI White took the top spot. Meanwhile, in today's world...Prince is... Read more

24 September, 2009 by Stephen Shankland

IBM wins bid to build hybrid supercomputer

'Roadrunner' machine will combine Opteron chips with the PlayStation's Cell processor Read more

6 September, 2006 by Stephen Shankland

Seti's Boinc project hit by DDoS attack

...project has produced more raw computing power than a 12 teraflop IBM ASCI White system, which would normally cost about $110m. Earlier this year, Seti... Read more

29 July, 2004 by Munir Kotadia

IBM delivers Europe's biggest supercomputer

...years' time, will be significantly smaller than current IBM supercomputers such as ASCI White, a nuclear weapons simulation machine at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which... Read more

19 February, 2004 by Matt Loney

Sun funds Seti@home

...point operations per second) -- more raw computing power than a $110m IBM ASCI White system, rated at 12 teraflops. Sun will be funding the second... Read more

17 December, 2003 by Munir Kotadia

HP dominates supercomputing leaderboard

Most of the world's fastest 500 computers are from HP, though IBM and Intel are gaining fast Read more

23 June, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

IBM releases supercomputer details

More information about Blue Gene, a project aiming at creating the world's fastest supercomputer, has been released by IBM Read more

8 May, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

IBM to build fastest supercomputers to date

Big Blue is to produce the ASCI Purple, which will be three times more powerful than NEC's Earth Simulator - and a Linux machine that runs at 360 teraflops Read more

19 November, 2002 by Stephen Shankland

HP moves up in supercomputer list

...new systems, being built at Los Alamos National Laboratory, bumped IBM's ASCI White two spots down the list. NEC's Earth Simulator remains No... Read more

15 November, 2002 by Stephen Shankland

China launches first supercomputer

...a trillion floating-point operations per second. After that comes IBM's Asci White, which can operate at 7.26 teraflops. The company said 60... Read more

2 September, 2002 by Neil Taylor

IBM loses supercomputer crown

...called Terascale based at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. An IBM system called ASCI White, No. 1 on the earlier list, is No. 2 on the... Read more

29 November, 2001 by Stephen Shankland

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