Japanese Chip 'faster Than Supercomputer'
News Tanji said the 350MHz Grape 3 can provide a gigaflop of computing power for $15, compared with $400 per gigaflop for a Pentium 4, $640 per gigaflop for the chips inside IBM's Blue Gene/L and a whopping $4,000 per gigaflop from NEC's Earth...
[August 25, 2004, 7:55]
Is There A Supercomputer In Your Future?
News NEC claims that a 32-processor TX7 yields a performance of 100 GigaFLOPs (one GigaFLOP is a billion floating point operations per second). To be fair, the GigaFLOP is a performance measure specifically dedicated to the needs of the scientific and...
[January 6, 2003, 11:55]
Faster Chip Hits The Desktop
News Chip-design firm ClearSpeed Technology announced its ClearSpeed CS301, a processor that it claims can achieve a 25 Gigaflop peak performance, or 25 billion floating point operations a second, according to statement from ClearSpeed.
[October 15, 2003, 10:20]
China Launches First Supercomputer
News According to Top500.org, the most powerful computer in China is the 245-gigaflop SuperDome 750, a popular HP platform that was installed by Beijing Social Insurance last year. China achieved a major advance in its technology ambitions as computer...
[September 2, 2002, 8:57]
The Thousand-fold Game Of Leapfrog
Leader It is impossible these days to buy a mainstream computer today with anything as slow as a gigaflop processor or as parsimonious as a gigabyte disk drive, and a gigabyte of RAM is unexceptional. Back in the early 1980s, technologists sighed over "3M...
[July 26, 2005, 15:45]
