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Japan takes Top500 supercomputer crown from China

...world's most powerful Top500 system in 2004, with the 36-teraflop Earth Simulator. When it comes to power consumption, the Japanese system is incredibly... Read more

20 June, 2011 by Jack Clark

Forecasting the supercomputer future

The scope and complexity of supercomputers remains daunting. The Earth Simulator itself occupies a three-story building. The first floor houses power... Read more

22 August, 2003 by Michael Kanellos

New entries join supercomputing top 10

...is 8 teraflops. The No. 1 and No. 2 systems -- NEC's Earth Simulator and LANL's ASCI Q, built by Hewlett-Packard, maintained their... Read more

17 November, 2003 by Stephen Shankland
Three-Level Hybrid Parallelization of Large-Scale Data Visualization for the <endeca_term>Earth Simulator</endeca_term>

Three-Level Hybrid Parallelization of Large-Scale Data Visualization for the Earth Simulator

...some strategies adopted to improve parallel performance of the subsystem for the Earth simulator. The three-level hybrid parallelization has been applied, including message passing... Read more

1 June, 2003

IBM dominates supercomputing list

...the 10 most powerful supercomputers, as of June 2004: 1: NEC's Earth Simulator 2: California Digital's Thunder at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 3... Read more

22 June, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

IBM aims Blue Gene at supercomputing top spot

...calculations per second, or one petaflop. Today's fastest machine, NEC's Earth Simulator, is comparatively slow -- about one-thirtieth of a petaflop -- but fast... Read more

14 November, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

IBM to build fastest supercomputers to date

...times faster than the world's current top-ranked supercomputer, NEC's Earth Simulator, which has been clocked at 35 trillion calculations per second, or... Read more

19 November, 2002 by Stephen Shankland

IBM wins fastest supercomputer competition

Blue Gene beats Earth Simulator – for now… IBM has claimed first place in a supercomputer speed... Read more

30 September, 2004 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

Supercomputing on tour

...system that this year unseated Japan's long-reigning performance champ the Earth Simulator as the fastest computer in the world — recently spent several weeks... Read more

26 September, 2005 by David Braue

Japan aims for world's fastest computer by 2010

...next April. Japan hosted the world's fastest computer, the 36 teraflop Earth Simulator, for two-and-a-half years until last September when it... Read more

26 July, 2005 by Rupert Goodwins

US urged to take supercomputing beyond clusters

Security concerns should drive the US government to put money into supercomputing, in order to avoid a decline in national expertise, say researchers Read more

15 November, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

Linux and IBM big winners at SC2004

...top of a list of the world's fastest supercomputers, NEC's Earth Simulator has finally been dethroned: IBM's Blue Gene/L officially is... Read more

9 November, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

Blue Gene set to claim supercomputing crown

...have chafed sometimes at the fact that a Japanese machine, NEC's Earth Simulator, has topped the 500 list since June 2002, with a speed... Read more

4 November, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

SGI supercomputer breaks speed record twice

...of a list of the world's 500 fastest machines, NEC's Earth Simulator at 35.9 teraflops, as well as a top challenger, IBM... Read more

27 October, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

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