Japanese chip 'faster than supercomputer'
News Chip designers at Japan's RIKEN say you can get a lot done by specialising. 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...
[August 25, 2004, 7:55]
IBM wins bid to build hybrid supercomputer
News Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, called RIKEN, announced in June that it had completed its Protein Explorer supercomputer. The Protein Explorer reached the petaflop level, RIKEN said, though not using the conventional Linpack...
[September 6, 2006, 10:05]
IBM dominates supercomputing list
News Fujitsu's Super Combined Cluster at the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, also known as Riken IBM has regained dominance on a list of the 500 fastest supercomputers and has also landed two unusual prototypes in the top 10.
[June 22, 2004, 11:35]
Intel readies massive multicore processors
News Some labs and companies, such as ClearSpeed Technology, Azul Systems and Riken, have developed chips with large numbers of cores — ClearSpeed has one with 96 cores — but the cores are capable of performing certain types of operations.
[June 14, 2007, 13:32]
Two cores not enough? Then try 96
News Riken, an anglicised acronym for Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, revealed details earlier this summer about a chip called MDGrape 3 that can perform a quadrillion operations per second.
[October 7, 2004, 15:10]
