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Storm Worm: More Powerful Than Blue Gene?
News The Storm worm botnet has been estimated to control between one million and five million computers, which one researcher says makes it more powerful than IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer. At the lowest estimate of one million computers, Guttman...
[September 12, 2007, 9:23]
Cray Supercomputer Goes Dual-core
News That machine, like IBM's Blue Gene/L now under construction at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, used a stripped-down operating system on some computers and a fuller operating system for the control computers, said Jim Tomkins, Sandia's Red...
[July 30, 2004, 10:25]
Supercomputer Predicts Big Blue Skies
News The centre announced Friday that it has tapped Big Blue to build the world's most powerful weather supercomputer, dubbed Blue Storm. As a result, Blue Storm could help businesses more safely and efficiently route ships at sea or more accurately...
[December 24, 2001, 11:08]
The Future's Rosy For Big Blue
News He called soaring Internet companies "fireflies before the storm" that are "all stirred up" and "throwing up sparks. The IBM chief said in the first quarter Big Blue sold about $2.5 billion of products and services over the Internet and expects...
[May 13, 1999, 16:18]
Jane Wakefield: The Dotcom Fairy Tale Is Over
News The storm clouds have been threatening for some time now but what is really worrying is the fact that the old school players, the telcos, the network providers and the hardware manufacturers are also now getting wet.
[March 12, 2001, 9:29]
Top 500 Supercomputers Announced
News The only two other systems to surpass 100 teraflops were also made by Cray: Oak Ridge National Laboratories' Jaguar, at 101.7 teraflops, and Sandia National Laboratories' Red Storm, at 101.4 teraflops.
[June 27, 2007, 10:38]
Chinese Supercomputer Heads Towards Top Of Rankings
News When the November list arrives, however, the system could be unseated by Cray's Red Storm at Sandia National Laboratories. Red Storm should, hopefully, be on the fall list," Ludden said. And Blue Gene/L, a hybrid between exotic designs and more...
[June 4, 2004, 9:20]
IBM Cements Its Supercomputing Dominance
News AMD, built the Opteron processors used in the number 10 system, a new machine called Red Storm built by Cray for Sandia National Laboratories. IBM dominates that top echelon: It built six of them, five using the Blue Gene design that packs 1,024...
[June 22, 2005, 15:00]
Dell In Colour - Sort Of
News The new model, which replaces Dell's flat-black Inspiron 3500, will come in two colours: Tahoe Blue or Storm Grey. Dell Computer has taken a small step down the industrial design path set out by Apple Computer's iMac and iBook products.
[September 23, 1999, 11:52]
Symantec: Evolved Storm Worm Attack Brewing
News The Storm worm botnet, a network of compromised computers, has been estimated to control between one million and five million machines, which one researcher said makes it more powerful than IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer.
[May 6, 2008, 15:22]
Photos: Your Starter For Ten...
Blog The calm before the storm: The team for Nexus looking pretty relaxed - they don't know what they are in for! Tech ed Rupert Goodwins (second-in blue shirt) takes team ZD to victory If you find the normal questions on University Challenge…erm...
[May 4, 2007, 11:45]
Leader: Compaq, Intel And A Chip Named Alpha...
News It had zero interest in Alpha before the purchase but - any port in a storm - it now likes the look of it in the expectation that rivals will be left floundering around waiting on Intel's designers. It bought Digital for its huge base of blue chip...
[August 28, 1998, 6:35]
AMD Climbs Supercomputing League Table
News AMD's Opteron processors are used in Cray's Red Storm system, built at Sandia National Laboratories, which has climbed to the number-two position with a speed of 101.4 teraflops. The top system on the list is again IBM's Blue Gene/L, with a speed...
[November 14, 2006, 8:41]
Nortel: Businesses Will Become Virtual
News The telecoms and networking vendor said mobile technology and communications advances were coming together in a "perfect storm", meaning the office as a workplace would become increasingly obsolete. Nortel outlined its blue-sky vision for how...
[April 12, 2006, 13:15]
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]
IBM Puts Opteron On The Rack
News One cluster of Opteron-based machines, code-named Red Storm, is slated to be created by supercomputing specialist Cray for Sandia National Laboratories in the United States. Big Blue's supercomputing work has led the company to trail niche leader...
[June 24, 2003, 11:20]
Sun Zooms In On Growth With 'Project Redshift'
News The thing I find so fascinating about the network is that it has become so consumerised that social phenomena can take off like a lightning storm," Schwartz said. For now, though, the bulk of Sun's business comes from traditional "blue-shift...
[March 27, 2007, 9:41]
LocustWorld: Swarming Over The Traditional Telcos
News Although the execution was deferred for a year after a storm of protest over Locust's cancellation, the blade fell in 2003. He cut his teeth at IBM sales school in the 1980s, where he was involved with Big Blue's first Unix-powered hardware, and...
[December 30, 2004, 13:25]
GameCube Arrives In North America
News The GameCube software lineup, which at launch includes such games as Luigi's Mansion, Wave Race: Blue Storm, Star Wars Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, comes on proprietary 1.5GB optical discs.
[November 20, 2001, 10:39]
Nintendo Announces GameCube European Launch Date
News Among the games due for release on the same day as the console will be Luigi's Mansion, Wave Race: Blue Storm, Star Wars: Rogue Leader, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, FIFA: Road To The World Cup, Burnout, Crazy Taxi, Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, and Batman.
[January 28, 2002, 9:43]
