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Supercomputers go even larger
News A side-by-side comparison of the two lists' rankings is difficult because IDC groups its rankings into four categories based on price criteria, a factor the Top500 list doesn't include. The arrival of NEC's top-ranked Earth Simulator in Japan has...
[June 21, 2002, 11:19]
Google protects its search results
News FirstPlace Software president Brent Winters said that although Google does not like the automated queries, businesses have "an inherent right" to know what their rankings are to measure their business results.
[April 16, 2002, 14:47]
Brits Are Broadband Speed Junkies
Blog O2 topped the rankings in terms of both speed and customer ratings, with an average speed of 6.41Mbps and customer rating of 3.82 out of 5. Back in February I blogged that UK-based broadband users are being fobbed off with vastly under-performing...
[April 28, 2008, 12:03]
MegaSearch
Downloads Additionally, it would be desirable to eliminate any duplicates, and sort the remaining results according to the average of their individual search engine rankings: this is why MegaSearch was created.
[May 22, 2006, 8:00]
Servers get new database speed test
News An IBM machine tested in 2006 and currently No.in the TPC-C rankings with a score of 4.03 million transactions per minute cost $12m. After 14 years measuring the world's most powerful servers, the TPC-C speed test is being supplanted by a new...
[March 19, 2007, 9:30]
Asia outstrips Europe, US in fibre rollout
News In total, 14 countries met this threshold, according to the rankings, which was previously updated early this year. Updated twice yearly, the ranking tracks the level of FTTH market penetration in economies where more than one percent of households...
[July 25, 2008, 8:20]
Wi-Fi shows rapid growth
News The Wi-Fi gear market continued its rapid growth in 2003, led mostly by consumer holiday sales, but companies saw a slight shuffle in their market share rankings. The market share rankings of the top three companies in the consumer segment changed...
[February 11, 2004, 9:10]
SGI claims supercomputing victory
News The Top500 rankings are updated twice yearly, and new results will be published at the SC2004 supercomputing show in Pittsburgh beginning 6 November. SGI isn't promising it will remain the speed king.
[October 27, 2004, 9:05]
Blue Gene set to claim supercomputing crown
News That performance means Columbia is likely to take second place in the Top500 rankings. The speed measurement took place at an IBM lab in Rochester, Minnesota, where the system is being kept before its move to the agency's Lawrence Livermore...
[November 4, 2004, 8:33]
HP dominates supercomputing leaderboard
News Also changing are some of the high rankings. The system has a speed of 335 gigaflops. The lowest-ranked system on the new list has a speed of 245 gigaflops, or billion calculations per second. Second and third place were occupied by two identical...
[June 23, 2003, 9:20]
Government sites continue to flout standards
News The rankings also took into account factors that may not cause fundamental operational problems, said Business2WWW, but which still represent poor site design. The site with the highest download speed was that of the e-envoy, and UK Online for...
[November 25, 2003, 11:20]
Big Blue breaks 36 Teraflop barrier to take supercomputing speed lead
News IBM claimed first place on Wednesday in a supercomputer speed competition with an expanded version of its Blue Gene/L, which beat a Japanese machine from NEC. By comparison, since 2002, NEC's Earth Simulator has held the top spot on a ranking of...
[September 30, 2004, 10:55]
Ellison: Who needs fat clients?
News Oracle claims that even though Microsoft holds the Number One spot in the Transaction Processing Council TPC-C price/performance rankings, the only software which Microsoft can run at acceptable levels of speed and reliability in a clustered SQL...
[November 14, 2000, 8:07]
PlayStation2 shipments top 50 million
News The latest rankings from Japanese researcher Dengeki show cumulative Xbox sales of only 312,000 units and only one Xbox title among the 40 top-selling games in Japan. The company began selling a £37 Xbox Live starter kit that includes several games...
[January 17, 2003, 7:58]
Pentium 4 v Athlon XP review
Reviews In our benchmark tests, which were performed by ZDNet Germany's Kai Schmerer, the new 2,533MHz Pentium 4 with 533MHz FSB performs very well, heading the rankings in all but a few cases. Frontside bus speed (MHz)
[May 16, 2002, 16:45]
Telewest gears up for multiplayer gaming
News Telewest is planning to bring more new features soon, including subscriber-only optimised servers for the most popular games, and subscriber rankings. See the Broadband News Section for the latest on cable modems, ADSL, satellite and other high...
[March 4, 2003, 11:38]
Apple shoots for supercomputer heights
News The new cluster is designed to make its way into the rankings of the world's largest supercomputers, a list that currently has no Macs. The servers in the cluster will be connected through 24 high-speed Infiniband switches from Mellanox Technologies.
[September 3, 2003, 9:15]
IBM's Roadrunner to smash supercomputing records
News IBM once again dominated the competition in semi-annual rankings of supercomputers, but the big news is what's coming next year. Now, supercomputers are assembled through racks of smaller servers woven together through thousands of high-speed links.
[November 13, 2007, 7:24]
Supercomputing on tour
News The TOP500 has become a barometer of computing progress, and high rankings are seen as merit badges of a sort - particularly for the likes of Intel, upon whose chips 333 of the TOP500 relatively inexpensive HPC systems are now running, up from...
[September 26, 2005, 10:45]
IBM to build fastest supercomputers to date
News Today, the list includes 134 IBM machines with a combined computing power larger than that of any other company in the rankings. The other machine, the Linux-powered Blue Gene/L for civilian research, will be 10 times faster than Earth Simulator...
[November 19, 2002, 9:53]
