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Inside Japan's Top500 K Computer

Inside Japan's Top500 K Computer

...544 CPUs. This system achieved a Linpack benchmark performance of 8.162 petaflops (quadrillion floating-point operations per second). But this supercomputer isn't even... Read more

21 June, 2011 by Staff

Cray leads US thrust for supercomputer supremacy

...most powerful computer until 2010, when its Rmax score of 1.7 petaflops was eclipsed by the 2.5 petaflops Chinese-made Tianhe-1A. This... Read more

12 October, 2011 by Jack Clark

Chinese supercomputer overtakes Jaguar

...Centre in Tianjin. Tianhe-1A achieved a performance level of 2.67 petaflops per second while Jaguar achieved 1.75 petaflop/s. Third place went... Read more

15 November, 2010 by Erica Ogg

IBM's third-generation Blue Gene aims for 100 petaflops

...IBM has revealed a supercomputing architecture that can reach 100 petaflops, 10 times more powerful than the fastest publicly disclosed supercomputer today. IBM... Read more

17 November, 2011 by Jack Clark
APEnet+: High Bandwidth 3D Torus Direct Network for <endeca_term>Petaflops</endeca_term> Scale Commodity Clusters

APEnet+: High Bandwidth 3D Torus Direct Network for Petaflops Scale Commodity Clusters

This paper describes herein the APElink+ board, a PCIe interconnect adapter featuring the latest advances in wire speed... Read more

18 February, 2011

Intel fuels exascale plan with QLogic InfiniBand buy

...to build an exascale computer, which will be capable of 1,000 petaflops (one exaflop). The others are memory, power efficiency, parallel programming and processor... Read more

24 January, 2012 by Jack Clark

Do you still count on your fingers?

In an age of petaFLOPS superdupercomputers, I feel almost ashamed to admit that I still count on... Read more

15 September, 2011

Cray taps GPUs for 50-petaflop supercomputer

...performance computer, which it says is capable of scaling up to 50 petaflops of computing power. Cray has married GPUs and CPUs to create the... Read more

25 May, 2011 by Jack Clark

China builds world's fastest supercomputer

...can perform over 2.5 thousand trillion floating point operations per second (petaflops). Professor Jack Dongarra, who is a member of the Top500 supercomputer ranking... Read more

29 October, 2010 by Tom Espiner

IBM looks to the stars with SKA research partnership

...its goal of designing a computer capable of an exaflop — 1,000 petaflops — of computing power, roughly 100 times more powerful than the world's... Read more

2 April, 2012

NSA plans $2bn surveillance datacentre

...architecture in mid-2011 named XK6 which can scale up to 50 petaflops of computing power when using forthcoming processors from AMD and Intel. The... Read more

16 March, 2012

MPs: Met Office needs more powerful supercomputer

...The enhanced supercomputer, which would have a peak performance of almost two petaflops, would cost £42m, paid over three years. These costs include equipment, power... Read more

21 February, 2012 by Jack Clark

EU to double supercomputing funding to ?1.2bn

...computational performance before 2020, the Commission said. An exaflop is 1,000 petaflops, which is 100 times faster than the current leading supercomputer. At the... Read more

16 February, 2012 by Jack Clark

China surges up Top500 supercomputer rankings

...the Fujitsu-designed K Computer attaining an Rmax score of 10.5 petaflops, according to the Linpack benchmark, versus the 2.5 petaflops of the... Read more

14 November, 2011

Europe taps Nvidia for ARM-based supercomputer

...go into a pilot system that aims to be capable of 50 petaflops of processing capacity, at levels three-to-five times as efficient as... Read more

14 November, 2011 by Jack Clark

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