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Supercomputers Go Even Larger
News It's getting hard to keep a place on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers. The Top500 ranking of supercomputers, released twice a year by researchers at the universities of Tennessee and Mannheim, Germany, experienced heavy turnover, with...
[June 21, 2002, 11:19]
Supercomputers
Talkback Interesting talk about supercomputers but I wonder if your comparisons are accurate? The Cray devices were vector processors which relied on the ability of the system to carry out numerous calculations in parallel but only if the problem (usually...
[July 6, 2007, 19:13]
Supercomputers & Storage: Strategies For Optimized Supercomputing Storage Systems
White Papers Well-tuned storage has an integral impact on how well supercomputers perform. Supercomputing architectures require different approaches to storage selection, configuration and tuning to meet the stringent performance, scalability, availability, and...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Microsoft Wants Windows On Supercomputers
News On the newest list of the top 500 supercomputers released this week, 291 were identified as clusters, the list organisers said. Microsoft will sell a version of Windows for high-performance computing -- a niche in which rival Linux is blossoming...
[June 24, 2004, 9:35]
Racksaver Builds Supercomputers With AMD Athlon Processors
White Papers In the world of high-density servers and Beowulf cluster supercomputers, Racksaver has been turning heads recently. Racksaver's technological leaps, in terms of cooling, layout and design, is best appreciated from a historical perspective.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Copper Supercharges Supercomputers
News While consumers won't purchase the new supercomputers, which will be used by researchers in health care or by scientists working to predict weather patterns, they may benefit from them indirectly. IBM's supercomputers, which are generally very...
[February 10, 2000, 11:02]
IBM Supercomputers To Simulate Climate Change
News Clustered machines, such as Virginia Polytechnic Institute's Apple G5 supercomputer or Sandia National Laboratories' upcoming Cray-based Red Storm are catching on in the supercomputing realm, growing more common on the top 500 list of the most...
[February 11, 2004, 10:20]
Ethernet In The World's Top 500 Supercomputers
White Papers The world's most powerful supercomputers continue to get faster. According to top500.org, which maintains the list of the 500 supercomputers with the highest Linpack performance, the aggregate performance of the listed computers has grown 21% in...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
IBM To Build Fastest Supercomputers To Date
News IBM has won a $290m government contract to build what are expected to be the world's two fastest supercomputers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the company plans to announce on Tuesday. In 1993, IBM got its first systems onto the Top500...
[November 19, 2002, 9:53]
PlayStation 3 Chip To Power Supercomputers
News Besides workstations, game machines and TV sets, Cell is also likely to power certain types of scientific supercomputers, streaming media servers and image analysis systems, all of which have continually expanding needs for processing power.
[December 6, 2004, 7:35]
PlayStation 3 Chip To Power Supercomputers
Talkback soory i did something wrong on my comment so i will change it.If sony say the Playstation 3 is going to be good, it better be! even though xbox came out after playstation 2, xbox showed great graphics and great technology!
[January 12, 2005, 18:11]
SCO Takes On US Government Supercomputers
Talkback Does it mean that SCO stands for anti-nuclear weapon movement? I'd like to hear Mr Bush's comment.
[March 22, 2004, 15:49]
SCO Takes On US Government Supercomputers
Talkback The fault lies more in the US legal process and less in the actions of SCO.
[March 22, 2004, 15:02]
SCO Takes On US Government Supercomputers
Talkback Suprise, Suprise. Their stock has been on a downward slide recently so it was only a matter of time before they threatened legal action *again*. Do they really have the resources to take on IBM, Novell, AutoZone, Chrysler and now the US goverment ?
[March 22, 2004, 13:18]
HP Teams Up For Linux Supercomputers
News Hewlett-Packard has signed a partnership with Linux NetworX under which each company will use technology from the other for lower-cost supercomputers, the companies plan to announce on Wednesday. Linux NetworX will use HP's Itanium 2 servers as...
[December 11, 2002, 10:23]
IBM Offers Supercomputers For Hire
News IBM has added its Blue Gene/L supercomputer as a new option for a programme that lets customers rent processing power, the company is expected to announce on Friday. Big Blue launched its Deep Computing Capacity on Demand project in 2003 to let...
[March 11, 2005, 8:10]
Windows For Supercomputers By November
Talkback Yea, no one uses C#! Oh wait.yea they do!
[March 5, 2005, 16:52]
Windows For Supercomputers By November
Talkback Ok, so you can run your modelling on Windows instead of UNIX, so you can watch it go south just 5 hours before you finish crunching your results. Right. And you can conveniently write your apps in COBOL, I mean C#.
[March 4, 2005, 21:16]
SCO Takes On US Government Supercomputers
Talkback Well, since Microsoft has been exposed as SCO's 'sugar daddy', I truly doubt that SCO is going to get any more funding. Every single dollar invested into SCO will now probably be traced back all the way back to the US mint.
[March 23, 2004, 3:14]
PlayStation 3 Chip To Power Supercomputers
Talkback If sony say the Playstation 3 is going to be good, it better be! even though xbox came out before playstation 2, xbox showed great graphics and great technology! i own the new slim playstation 2 and i think it is gr8!
[January 12, 2005, 18:05]
