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MPs: Met Office needs more powerful supercomputer

...of upgrading an IBM Power7-based supercomputer to give it nearly a petaflop of peak processing performance. However, the agency actually needs a system twice... Read more

21 February, 2012 by Jack Clark

EU to double supercomputing funding to ?1.2bn

...that rank highly within the Top500. These are France's 1.25 petaflop Curie system, which ranks in ninth place globally, and the 1-petaflop... Read more

16 February, 2012 by Jack Clark

China aims for exascale computer within 10 years

...also become skilled in processor design and fabrication and are building another petaflop-class supercomputer using entirely indigenous components that is expected to be complete... Read more

24 August, 2011 by Jack Clark

Europe's Prace HPC grid aims for exaflop power by 2019

...supercomputers. Prace is aiming for a combined computing power in the multi-petaflop range in the next five years, and in the exaflop range by... Read more

10 June, 2010 by David Meyer

Cray taps GPUs for 50-petaflop supercomputer

...with later generations of CPUs, GPUs and interconnect hardware, Cray said. A petaflop is equal to a thousand trillion floating point operations per second. By... Read more

25 May, 2011 by Jack Clark

Intel's Knights Corner to debut in Texas supercomputer

...University of Texas's Stampede supercomputer in 2013. Work on the 10-petaflop Stampede, which will be housed at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at... Read more

23 September, 2011 by Jack Clark

IBM pulls out of petascale computing contract

...peak performance of around 10 petaflops and a reliable performance of a petaflop for general applications. The main benchmark for peak performance of supercomputers is... Read more

9 August, 2011 by Jack Clark

NSA plans $2bn surveillance datacentre

...also enlisted supercomputer specialist Cray to help it build a new multi-petaflop supercomputer to attempt to crack the popular AES-256 encryption standard. Cray... Read more

16 March, 2012

Knights Corner edges into supercomputing arena

...this year. Intel has said Knights Corner will appear in the 10-petaflop 'Stampede' supercomputer from the University of Texas in 2013. Knights Corner will... Read more

16 November, 2011 by Jack Clark

China surges up Top500 supercomputer rankings

...seem set to appear in the list. The country is developing a petaflop supercomputer named the Dawning 6000 that will get its processing power from... Read more

14 November, 2011

China builds supercomputer from domestic chips

...It contains 8,700 ShenWei SW1600 processors and is capable of a petaflop of processing, which should rank it in the top fifteen most powerful... Read more

29 October, 2011

Cray leads US thrust for supercomputer supremacy

...world record for computer speed with sustained performance of more than a petaflop on two scientific applications, and has subsequently run five applications above that... Read more

12 October, 2011 by Jack Clark

Intel targets exascale computing with new technologies

...much computing power within a modest 20 megawatt-power budget. Today a petaflop[-scale] computer is burning something between five and seven megawatts," he said... Read more

16 September, 2011 by Jack Clark

AMD's Bulldozer rumbles off to server makers

...50 petaflops, comfortably beating the current Top500 rankings leader, the 8.16-petaflop Sparc-based K Computer.The University of Edinburgh, GE Global Research and... Read more

7 September, 2011 by Jack Clark

China to test own CPU in supercomputer this year

...second", according to Weiwu. 1,000 trillion operations are equal to a petaflop. For perspective, the Chinese Tianhe-1A leads the Top500 list of the... Read more

7 March, 2011

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