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China Wants Place On Supercomputer Charts
News According to the Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers, top place is held by the NEC Earth Simulator in Japan, with a 36 teraflop rating. When ready next year, its 40 teraflop rating will put the NEC Earth Simulator in the shade.
[July 25, 2003, 9:31]
IBM Goes Retro To Bridge The Supercomputing Divide
News And despite threats from IBM and SGI, NEC's Earth Simulator vector system has led a list of the 500 fastest supercomputers for two years. Like scalar systems, vector systems also can be linked into a cluster -- the approach used by the Earth...
[October 26, 2004, 11:50]
IBM Dominates Supercomputing List
News The top system -- NEC's long-dominant, 5,120-processor Earth Simulator -- can perform 35.8 trillions of calculations per second, or 35.8 teraflops. NEC's Earth Simulator He scoffs at governmental fretting that the United States is losing dominance...
[June 22, 2004, 11:35]
China Launches First Supercomputer
News According to popular supercomputing site Top500.org, the world's most powerful supercomputer is the NEC Earth Simulator. The Earth Simulator uses 5,104 processors and can reach a speed of 35.86 teraflops, making Deepcomp almost a home PC by...
[September 2, 2002, 8:57]
NEC Is King Of The Supercomputers
News The most powerful computer is the Earth Simulator, created by Japanese computing giant NEC as part of an initiative sponsored by Japan's Science and Technology Agency (now called the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology).
[May 17, 2002, 11:07]
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]
New Entries Join Supercomputing Top 10
News The No.and No.systems -- NEC's Earth Simulator and LANL's ASCI Q, built by Hewlett-Packard, maintained their positions with performance of 35.6 teraflops and 13.8 teraflops, respectively. Earth Simulator has held the top spot for four consecutive...
[November 17, 2003, 9:20]
IBM To Build Fastest Supercomputers To Date
News One machine, ASCI Purple for nuclear weapons research, will be three times faster than the world's current top-ranked supercomputer, NEC's Earth Simulator, which has been clocked at 35 trillion calculations per second, or "teraflops.
[November 19, 2002, 9:53]
IBM Aims Blue Gene At Supercomputing Top Spot
News Today's fastest machine, NEC's Earth Simulator, is comparatively slow -- about one-thirtieth of a petaflop -- but fast enough to worry the US government that the country is losing its computing lead to Japan.
[November 14, 2003, 8:40]
Supercomputers Go Even Larger
News The arrival of NEC's top-ranked Earth Simulator in Japan has reworked the top of the list, but there's also plenty of action lower down in the rankings, where systems are affordable enough to be bought by multinational corporations, not just...
[June 21, 2002, 11:19]
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. It is to be used for applications such as drug design...
[July 17, 2002, 16:20]
Supercomputing: Small Firms Making A Big Impact
News While computers such as NEC's Earth Simulator are still preferred for some tasks, such as weather prediction, researchers have found that most applications can be run on clusters of two- and four-processor assemblies from Intel or Advanced Micro...
[May 18, 2004, 11:35]
Small Firm Creates Supercomputer Thunder
News While computers such as NEC's Earth Simulator are still preferred for some tasks, such as weather prediction, researchers have found that most applications can be run on clusters of two- and four-processor assemblies from Intel or Advanced Micro...
[May 11, 2004, 10:30]
Big Blue Breaks 36 Teraflop Barrier To Take Supercomputing Speed Lead
News By comparison, since 2002, NEC's Earth Simulator has held the top spot on a ranking of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers while running at a speed of 35.9 teraflops. IBM claimed first place on Wednesday in a supercomputer speed competition with...
[September 30, 2004, 10:55]
AMD's Opteron Gets Supercomputer Boost
News NEC's Earth Simulator, currently the world's most powerful computer, can perform 35.9 trillion calculations per second. Several supercomputers are in the pipeline that will surpass NEC's figure. In a deal that should buoy both computing companies...
[October 22, 2002, 7:36]
Japan Plans Super Grid Computer
News The fastest computer today, Japan's NEC Earth Simulator, runs at 36 teraflops. Current contributors to the international OGSA project include IBM, Sun Microsystems, HP, Microsoft, Platform Computing, Hitachi, NEC, Fujitsu, Avaki and Entropia.
[July 11, 2003, 8:57]
Is There A Supercomputer In Your Future?
News Its Earth Simulator system in Japan is still far and away the most powerful system yet built. The High Performance Computing (HPC) division of NEC has created an interesting problem for IT managers looking for the future direction of big enterprise...
[January 6, 2003, 11:55]
SGI Claims Supercomputing Victory
News That performance was enough to edge Big Blue ahead of NEC's Earth Simulator, which since 2002 has led a list of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers. Although a victor won't be declared for two weeks yet, Silicon Graphics has become the second...
[October 27, 2004, 9:05]
Intel Plans Supercomputing Push
News At 20 teraflops, or 20 trillion floating-point calculations per second, Thunder would be the second-fastest supercomputer in the world if it were running now, following NEC's Earth Simulator, said Rick Herrmann, high-performance computing program...
[November 17, 2003, 12:20]
Cray's Nuclear Simulator To Hit Mass Market
News It is believed that when Red Storm is finished next year, it could outpace the world's fastest supercomputer, Japan's NEC Earth Simulator. Supercomputer maker Cray said on Monday that it is planning to release a line of products based on the...
[October 27, 2003, 15:40]
