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Blue Gene unfolds at Japan lab
News The new machine, to be used at Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) should be capable of sustained performance of 17.2 trillion calculations per second, IBM plans to announce on Tuesday.
[September 7, 2004, 9:00]
IBM sews up second Blue Gene deal
News The system, which is expected to be complete in 2005, will run the Linux operating system, use about 12,000 processors and perform more than 30 trillion calculations per second, sources familiar with the plan said.
[February 23, 2004, 9:40]
IBM hatches plans for superprocessor
News IBM and the University of Texas at Austin plan to collaborate on building a processor capable of churning out more than 1 trillion calculations per second -- faster than many of today's top supercomputers.
[August 27, 2003, 15:15]
IBM breaks the petaflop barrier
News Roadrunner, the world’s fastest supercomputer, can perform one thousand trillion calculations per second Roadrunner's processing speed of one quadrillion calculations per second enables real-time simulations of events, said Divari.
[June 10, 2008, 11:09]
Japanese chip 'faster than supercomputer'
News Research also continues at the University of Tokyo to develop a quasi general purpose chip capable of 1 teraflop, or a trillion calculations a second. The computational power comes, he said, because the chip is specialised for workloads that...
[August 25, 2004, 7:55]
IBM aims Blue Gene at supercomputing top spot
News IBM plans to reveal the first indication of the performance of its Blue Gene/L supercomputer on Friday, a machine about the size of a dishwasher that can perform 1.4 trillion calculations per second. With the full configuration of 64 racks and...
[November 14, 2003, 8:40]
PlayStation 3 chip nears completion
News It will have the ability to do north of 1 trillion mathematical calculations per second, roughly 100 times more than a single Pentium 4 chip running at 2.5GHz. While the processor's design is still under wraps, the companies say Cell's capabilities...
[August 6, 2002, 13:07]
Supercomputers go even larger
News The number of computers that can perform more than one trillion calculations per second has risen from 17 to 23. Occupying roughly four tennis courts' worth of space, the system churns out 35.9 trillion calculations per second, making its...
[June 21, 2002, 11:19]
US Army contractor buys Mac supercomputer
News System X, which vanished from the most recent list for upgrades, had sustained performance of 10.3 trillion calculations per second, or "teraflops. Where System X used the high-speed InfiniBand technology, MACH 5 will use the more conventional 1...
[June 22, 2004, 10:20]
Linux to enter supercomputing top five
News The fastest supercomputer is currently NEC's Earth Simulator, which churns out 35.9 trillion calculations per second, more than the next 12 systems combined, according to Top500. The supercomputing cluster will consist of 962 nodes running on 1,920...
[July 17, 2002, 13:10]
US to build supercomputer grid
News The NCSA's cluster will be able to perform 6.1 trillion calculations per second (teraflops), and SDSC's will handle 4 teraflops, Nelson said. Scientists won't have to worry about where exactly data is stored or what computers are churning through...
[August 10, 2001, 9:42]
UK academics get £53m supercomputer
News The world's fastest supercomputer is currently NEC's Earth Simulator, which churns out 35.9 trillion calculations per second, though this is significantly faster than its nearest competitor. The supercomputer will provide an initial capability of...
[July 17, 2002, 16:20]
HP dominates supercomputing leaderboard
News Of the total ability of 375 trillion calculations per second, or teraflops, IBM machines account for 34 percent. The lowest-ranked system on the new list has a speed of 245 gigaflops, or billion calculations per second.
[June 23, 2003, 9:20]
Blue Gene rises up the ranks
News The system, called Blue Gene Watson and located at IBM's Thomas Watson Research Center, performed 91.3 trillion calculations per second, or 91.3 teraflops. A second Blue Gene/L supercomputer has posted speed results that lift it to the high ranks...
[June 13, 2005, 10:00]
Blue Gene/L beats own speed record
News The 65,536-processor machine can sustain 280.6 trillion calculations per second, called 280.6 teraflops, IBM said Thursday. When Blue Gene/L runs Linpack, each processor performs mathematical calculations.
[October 28, 2005, 8:20]
PlayStation 3 to get 'Yellowstone'
News It will have the ability to do north of 1 trillion mathematical calculations per second, roughly 100 times more than a single Pentium 4 chip running at 2.5GHz. Yellowstone can transfer data up to 100 gigabits per second, or three times faster than...
[January 7, 2003, 8:06]
HP to build Linux supercomputer
News The $24.5m (£17.15m) supercomputer will be capable of processing 8.3 trillion calculations per second (8.3 teraflops), according to HP. The chips will be a 4-to-1 mix of Madison, the third-generation version of Itanium, to be released next year...
[April 17, 2002, 9:14]
Sun seeks supercomputing glory
News A Constellation with 131,000 processor cores could churn 1,080 teraflops, or calculations, per second. One source said IBM plans to debut its next-generation Blue Gene design, called "Blue Gene/P", in which P stands for petaflop — a quadrillion...
[June 26, 2007, 9:47]
Silicon Graphics to announce next-gen Linux server
News The new systems were on display here in Moffett Field, California, at NASA's Ames Laboratory, which unveiled a new supercomputer called Columbia on Tuesday that can perform 42.7 trillion calculations per second, or 42.7 teraflops.
[October 27, 2004, 9:20]
Cray's nuclear simulator to hit mass market
News Due out sometime in 2004, the supercomputers will utilise Cray's MPP (massively parallel processing) architecture, which it is employing in the design of Red Storm, a 40-teraflop (40 trillion calculations per second) device ordered by the DOE's...
[October 27, 2003, 15:40]
