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Inside Japan's <endeca_term>Top500</endeca_term> K Computer

Inside Japan's Top500 K Computer

...top-performing supercomputer in the world on Monday, as determined by the Top500 Supercomputing List. The K Computer, which is housed at the Riken Advanced... Read more

21 June, 2011 by Staff

China builds world's fastest supercomputer

...per second (petaflops). Professor Jack Dongarra, who is a member of the Top500 supercomputer ranking project, told ZDNet UK on Friday that he had been... Read more

29 October, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Chinese HPC edges closer to lead Top500 spot

...Facility and its Jaguar system kept the number one spot on the Top500 list of fastest supercomputers, but China's new Nebulae is close behind... Read more

1 June, 2010 by Larry Dignan

Jaguar supercomputer faces losing its crown

...supercomputer on the planet for almost a year. Every six months, the Top500 project releases the rankings of the most powerful supercomputers. Although the latest... Read more

12 November, 2010 by Erica Ogg

IBM exec: China to overtake Europe in supercomputing

...head of high-performance computing. "Within a year, there will be more Top500 systems in China than there are in Europe collectively," David Turek, IBM... Read more

26 September, 2010 by Jack Clark

EU to double supercomputing funding to ?1.2bn

...Supercomputing Center. Image credit: Barcelona Supercomputing Center Europe's presence in the Top500 list of the world's most powerful public supercomputers has been falling... Read more

16 February, 2012 by Jack Clark

China aims for exascale computer within 10 years

...s second-fastest computer, according to the Linpack benchmark reported in the Top500 ranking. The Tianhe-1A is capable of 2.57 petaflops of peak... Read more

24 August, 2011 by Jack Clark

Chinese supercomputer overtakes Jaguar

The latest edition of the Top500 list has confirmed that China's Tianhe-1A has replaced the US... Read more

15 November, 2010 by Erica Ogg

China surges up Top500 supercomputer rankings

The latest rankings in the Top500 list of supercomputers have come out, with China making its presence felt... Read more

14 November, 2011

Japan takes Top500 supercomputer crown from China

...Riken The Fujitsu-designed K Computer, announced as winner of the biannual Top500 supercomputer list on Monday at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Hamburg... Read more

20 June, 2011 by Jack Clark
<endeca_term>Top500</endeca_term> 1.4

Top500 1.4

The Top500 application provides access to over 15 years of supercomputing related data and... Read more

23 February, 2012
USA <endeca_term>Top500</endeca_term> Lite 1.0

USA Top500 Lite 1.0

Dear friends! We are happy to introduce you the "USA Top500". This application features a great mix of interesting and simply funny facts... Read more

27 August, 2010
USA <endeca_term>Top500</endeca_term> 1.1

USA Top500 1.1

Dear friends! We are happy to introduce you the "USA Top500". This application features a great mix of interesting and simply funny facts... Read more

26 August, 2010

Cray leads US thrust for supercomputer supremacy

...June 2011. Rmax is a score within the Linpack benchmark which the Top500 organisation uses to rank computers according to how many floating-point mathematical... Read more

12 October, 2011 by Jack Clark
Supercomputing's future: Is it CPU or GPU?

Supercomputing's future: Is it CPU or GPU?

...there any key differences between the emergence of x86-64 in the Top500 and CPU vs GPU then? Perhaps. The new x86-64 processors were... Read more

16 June, 2010 by Andrew Jones

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