IBM plans 20 petaflop supercomputer
News IBM said on Tuesday it is developing a supercomputer to outperform its record-breaking Roadrunner machine and go straight to 20 petaflops when it is launched next year. Meanwhile, Dawn, a 500-teraflop computer, is scheduled for delivery later this...
[February 3, 2009, 15:43]
AMD chips in with Cray for world's fastest computer
News The world's first commercial one-petaflops supercomputer has been commissioned, Cray announced on Thursday. A one-petaflops supercomputer can make a million billion high-precision calculations per second using real-world numbers.
[June 19, 2006, 14:50]
IBM supercomputer achieves petaflop
News IBM has devised a new Blue Gene supercomputer — the Blue Gene/P — that will be capable of processing more than three quadrillion operations a second, or three petaflops, a possible record. Hitting three petaflops takes an 884,736-processor and 216...
[June 26, 2007, 10:29]
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]
AMD takes top three places in supercomputer list
News Housed in the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, this BladeCenter QS22 Cluster uses 1.8GHz Opteron processors and has 122,400 cores, producing a maximum performance speed of 1.04 petaflops per second.
[November 16, 2009, 14:46]
Top 500 supercomputers announced
News The total performance of all 500 systems reached 4.92 petaflops, or 1,000 teraflops. The systems on the November list topped out at 3.54 petaflops, and the June 2006 compilation totalled 2.79 petaflops.
[June 27, 2007, 10:38]
Tough choices for supercomputing's legacy apps
Comment As some parts of the community consider the prospect of hundreds of petaflops and exascale computing — which may only be a few years away — others are starting to ask whether some of their applications are ever going to make it.
[November 12, 2009, 14:44]
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. Jaguar, installed at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, reached 1.059 petaflops.
[June 24, 2009, 13:01]
Japan aims for world's fastest computer by 2010
News The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology expects to complete the system by 2010, when it will run at a maximum speed of 10 petaflops - 10 quadrillion floating-point operations a second.
[July 26, 2005, 15:25]
Desktop supercomputer aims for 1.1 teraflops
News The world's most powerful supercomputers, including IBM's Roadrunner, run at much higher speeds, are measured in petaflops, or 1015 flops. Asus has unveiled a mini-supercomputer based on Nvidia graphics chips and a 3.33GHz Xeon.
[October 28, 2009, 14:13]
Sun seeks supercomputing glory
News A fully built-out Constellation system, with contemporary components, could hit a peak of two petaflops, or two quadrillion operations per second. You could call it switchzilla. Sun on Monday revealed the Constellation System, a high-performance...
[June 26, 2007, 9:47]
HP and Microsoft eye supercomputer market
News On Monday, IBM announced that its latest Blue Gene computer, the Blue Gene/P, was capable of processing more that three quadrillion operations a second, or three petaflops. Microsoft and HP announced on Tuesday an extension of their long-running...
[June 26, 2007, 14:03]
IBM, screensaver to tackle smallpox
News If the Smallpox Research Grid can round up 2 million participants, the collective computing power could be as high as 1.1 petaflops, or 1.1 quadrillion calculations per second, the companies said. IBM and a host of technology partners are working...
[February 5, 2003, 8:21]
Blue Gene unfolds at Japan lab
News IBM also is working on other designs called Blue Gene/C and Blue Gene/P, the latter designed to reach performance of 1 quadrillion calculations per second, or 1 petaflops. IBM has sold a Blue Gene/L supercomputer to a Japanese lab to investigate...
[September 7, 2004, 9:00]
Linux and IBM big winners at SC2004
News Now, 398 of the systems on the list have crossed the teraflop threshold, and the total performance has reached 1.13 petaflops, or just over a quadrillion calculations per second. After two and a half years at the top of a list of the world's...
[November 9, 2004, 13:33]
Met Office supercomputer not as forecast
Blog It's a nice tech story, with weather and petaflops and the West Country and everything. You may have noticed a lot of coverage today in the mainstream media (or MSM, as we post-print pundits say) about the Met Office's brand-new IBM supercomputer.
[May 22, 2009, 11:51]
Creative's Zii chip - more questions than answers
Blog It runs at 10 gigaflops, and can scale up to many petaflops - again, it says here. Over in Las Vegas, Creative is gearing up to launch its Zii. Or perhaps StemCell Computing, or ZiiLABS, or the ZiiLABS ZMS-05 - or all of the above.
[January 8, 2009, 13:31]
