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IBM plans 20 petaflop supercomputer
News One petaflop is 1,000 trillion floating-point operations per second. Like Roadrunner — the first system through the one-petaflop barrier — the new machine is being developed for the US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration...
[February 3, 2009, 15:43]
Met Office buys IBM petaflop supercomputer
News The Met Office is buying a supercomputer from IBM which is expected to operate at close to a petaflop by 2011. By 2011, the Met Office supercomputer is expected to operate at speeds approaching one quadrillion floating point operations per second...
[August 5, 2008, 12:19]
IBM breaks the petaflop barrier
News Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop — 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second — twice as fast as the world's previous fastest computer, Blue Gene.
[June 10, 2008, 11:09]
IBM supercomputer achieves petaflop
News The petaflop era has begun. Blue Gene/P is designed to continuously operate at more than one petaflop in real-world situations. Put another way, a Blue Gene/P operating at a petaflop is performing more operations than a 1.5-mile-high stack of laptops.
[June 26, 2007, 10:29]
IBM's Roadrunner holds onto Top500 crown
News Roadrunner, the first machine to break the petaflop barrier a year ago, registered 1.105 petaflops to top the June 2009 list, published on Tuesday. One petaflop is 1,000 trillion floating-point operations per second.
[June 24, 2009, 13:01]
IBM wins bid to build hybrid supercomputer
News The Protein Explorer reached the petaflop level, RIKEN said, though not using the conventional Linpack supercomputing speed test. The supercomputer, for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, will be the world's fastest machine and is designed to...
[September 6, 2006, 10:05]
Sun sets on 150,000 planets (and a prediction for two days' time)
Blog The project is just one of the worldwide efforts to build a petaflop computer. Petaflop? I was talking to one of our American colleagues, who was writing up the Sun story and had to explain what a petaflop actually was - and we agreed that it's not...
[November 22, 2006, 0:18]
IBM releases supercomputer details
News How IBM reaches its petaflop-and-beyond goal is "going to depend in large part on what we find out when we start running on Blue Gene/L. Blue Gene" is an ambitious project to expand the horizons of supercomputing, with the ultimate goal of creating...
[May 8, 2003, 12:03]
IBM's Roadrunner to smash supercomputing records
News Roadrunner, which will be delivered to the US Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory in summer 2008, will be capable of performing more than a quadrillion operations, or a petaflop, when it's fully operational.
[November 13, 2007, 7:24]
Powering up supercomputing
News It will operate at a petaflop, or one quadrillion calculations per second. With Blue Gene, we will deliver a third of a petaflop to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory at the end of next year. Watson Research Center, is trying to take some of...
[December 18, 2003, 13:30]
Cray's king-of-the-hill supercomputer
News Ultimately, Cray and others would like to reach a petaflop, or 1,000 trillion mathematical calculations per second. The company said its X1 systems will be able to reach the petaflop mark by 2010. Cray announced on Thursday a new supercomputer that...
[November 14, 2002, 14:56]
The thousand-fold game of leapfrog
Leader The petaflop is trickier to call. Meanwhile, the Japanese are planning a 10 petaflop system by the end of the decade. Back in the early 1980s, technologists sighed over "3M" computers — workstations that combined a megabyte of memory, a megapixel...
[July 26, 2005, 15:45]
IBM aims Blue Gene at supercomputing top spot
News Blue Gene" is an ambitious project to expand the horizons of supercomputing, with the ultimate goal of creating a system that can perform one quadrillion calculations per second, or one petaflop. Today's fastest machine, NEC's Earth Simulator, is...
[November 14, 2003, 8:40]
Roadrunner pips Jaguar on supercomputer list
News Roadrunner, which is located at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, was enhanced earlier this year and in June became the first to break the petaflop barrier, reaching 1.105 petaflops, according to Top500.
[November 17, 2008, 14:12]
Japanese chip 'faster than supercomputer'
News RIKEN, an anglicised acronym for Japan's Research Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, described on Tuesday the MDGrape 3, a processor it thinks will become the cornerstone of a computer capable of operating at a petaflop, or a quadrillion...
[August 25, 2004, 7:55]
AMD chips in with Cray for world's fastest computer
Talkback It seems ironic that Intel launch a superb range of processors - with emphasis not only on high performance, but also on lower power consumption, then Cray announce a petaflop machine based around AMD processors.
[June 20, 2006, 11:25]
Linux will power IBM supercomputer project
News IBM's $100m (£64m) Blue Gene program is directed at creating, by late 2005 or early 2006, a new family of supercomputers that will be able to perform a quadrillion calculations per second (one petaflop).
[October 25, 2002, 7:55]
Blue Gene/L cruises past 100 teraflop barrier
News Blue Gene began in 2000 as a research project to build a system that could break the petaflop barrier, but IBM is trying to make a business out of the machine. IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer has doubled its own performance record by doubling in...
[March 24, 2005, 9:15]
Japan aims for world's fastest computer by 2010
News IBM and Cray have both said that they will be producing petaflop-class computers by 2010 at the latest, with IBM suggesting that their machine may be available much sooner than that. Government officials in Japan said on Monday that they are...
[July 26, 2005, 15:25]
IBM makes declaration of independence for chips, software
News The supercomputer will be capable of operating at petaflop speeds--a quadrillion calculations per second--and will rely on server-on-a-chip-style processors. The company's IBM Research Division is following a new path aimed at building more...
[March 8, 2001, 9:26]
