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Compaq, Nuclear Lab Teaming On Supercomputer
News The supercomputer will be designed by the PC maker and Albuquerque-based Sandia, and will be able to crunch 100 trillion operations a second, a Compaq representative said. Compaq Computer is teaming with nuclear research facility, Sandia National...
[January 19, 2001, 16:04]
Linux Lab Revamps Supercomputer Plans
News The Open Source Development Lab, a programming centre devoted to bringing high-end features to Linux, announced a new chief executive and an expanded partnership plan on Monday. OSDL's 30 employees today are funded by major computing companies such...
[April 22, 2003, 10:24]
IBM Wins Bid To Build Hybrid Supercomputer
News Its sister lab and sometimes rival, Lawrence Livermore, has had the Big Blue affinity, housing the current top-ranked supercomputer, Blue Gene/L. IBM has won a bid to build a supercomputer called Roadrunner that will include not just conventional...
[September 6, 2006, 10:05]
Blue Gene Set To Claim Supercomputing Crown
News The US Department of Energy plans to unveil test results on Thursday that are likely to place IBM's Blue Gene/L as the fastest supercomputer in the world, CNET News.com has learned. The Blue Gene/L performance handily surpasses a record announced...
[November 4, 2004, 8:33]
Blue Gene Unfolds At Japan Lab
News IBM has sold a Blue Gene/L supercomputer to a Japanese lab to investigate the shapes of proteins--the task that inspired the Blue Gene programme in the first place. The Blue Gene/L being built at the Livermore lab is expected to perform at 30...
[September 7, 2004, 9:00]
Monsanto Processes 50% More Genetic Data Per Day With Platform
White Papers Platform's Grid Computing solution enabled Monsanto to establish a virtual supercomputer that scientists at any site could use to submit pipeline jobs from their desktops. Monsanto was using its largest mainframe to run gene discovery applications...
[November 25, 2004, 2:00]
US Army Purchases Massive Supercomputer
News The US Army Research Laboratory has elected to buy an IBM supercomputer with 2,304 AMD Opteron processors, the companies plan to announce on Tuesday at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. The news comes a few months after Linux Networx announced...
[August 3, 2004, 9:15]
Small Firm Creates Supercomputer Thunder
News Thunder, a supercomputer recently installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is possibly the second-most powerful computing machine on the planet -- and it was built by a company with about as many employees as a real-estate office.
[May 11, 2004, 10:30]
HP To Build Linux Supercomputer
News Hewlett-Packard announced a high-profile contract Tuesday to build a Linux-powered supercomputer for the US Department of Energy. The $24.5m (£17.15m) supercomputer will be capable of processing 8.3 trillion calculations per second (8.3 teraflops...
[April 17, 2002, 9:14]
IBM Readies Retail Supercomputer
News That was the case for the p5-575's star customer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's ASC Purple, a supercomputer for predicting whether nuclear weapons will continue to work as they age. The lab needed systems with large amounts of memory for...
[February 11, 2005, 8:00]
Linux Company To Work On Supercomputer
News Linux NetworX, a company that focuses on joining collections of Linux computers into a supercomputer, will collaborate with SGI and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to develop software for storing data on these "clusters" of computers, the...
[August 29, 2001, 10:27]
Chinese Supercomputer Heads Towards Top Of Rankings
News A Chinese supercomputer, the Dawning 4000A, is expected to rank high on an upcoming list of the fastest machines, underscoring geopolitical effects of a new approach to high-performance computing. On the most recent Top500 Supercomputer list, only...
[June 4, 2004, 9:20]
Clusters' First Stand
Leader It also shows that one of the great motors driving computer performance -- the cross-fertilisation of supercomputer design techniques with desktop technology -- remains a powerful force for innovation across the board.
[November 8, 2004, 11:18]
US Report: Cool Technology Fuels Alpha
News The KryoTech/Digital 767 Personal Supercomputer, as it's called, will be priced from $21,997 (£13,093) for an NT model with 4MB of Level 3 cache, 256MB of ECC (error-correcting code) SDRAM (synchronous dynamic RAM), a 4.3GB Ultra SCSI hard drive...
[April 8, 1998, 13:15]
SCO Takes On US Government Supercomputers
News The SCO Group, the company that's hoping to profit from its assertion that Linux violates its Unix intellectual property, has threatened legal action against two federal supercomputer users, letters released on Thursday show.
[March 22, 2004, 11:30]
Transmeta's Low Power Finds Place In Supercomputers
News Troubled chip company Transmeta got a boost on Friday when the Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL) showed off Green Destiny, a new supercomputer architecture based on Transmeta's Crusoe processor.
[May 20, 2002, 12:47]
IBM's Roadrunner To Smash Supercomputing Records
News IBM had the fastest computer on the Top500 Supercomputer Sites list, which was released Monday at the SC07 conference in Reno, Nevada. The top machine, the Blue Gene/L supercomputer — located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory — is capable...
[November 13, 2007, 7:24]
Supercomputers Go Even Larger
News Big Blue is aggressively funding two major types of supercomputer research: first, its expensive Unix servers linked together with a high-speed "SP" switch, and second, larger numbers of less expensive computers using Intel processors and the...
[June 21, 2002, 11:19]
Lab To Sample Linux For Weapons Work
News Los Alamos National Laboratory is buying a $6m (£3.8m), 2,048-processor Linux supercomputer to run its nuclear weapons simulation software, an effort that will test the limits of these less expensive megamachines.
[September 24, 2002, 7:33]
Blue Gene/L Beats Own Speed Record
News Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and IBM unveiled the Blue Gene/L supercomputer on Thursday and announced that it has broken its own record again for the world's fastest supercomputer. Blue Gene/L first became the top-ranked supercomputer a...
[October 28, 2005, 8:20]
