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'Supercomputer On A Chip' Promised By Cell Processor
News Trailed as a 'supercomputer on a chip', the Cell is known to encompass many innovations in software and hardware design and will be the chip at the centre of next year's Sony Playstation 3. IBM, Sony and Toshiba will reveal details on the new Cell...
[February 7, 2005, 15:50]
AMD Athlon Processor Powers University Of Kentucky Supercomputer
White Papers Deep in the recesses of the University of Kentucky, a team led by Professor Hank Dietz has assembled a supercomputer using 64 PC's, boldness, ingenuity, and AMD Athlon processors. The University of Kentucky's KLAT2 (Kentucky Linux [AMD] Athlon...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
'Supercomputer On A Chip' Promised By Cell Processor
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[February 12, 2005, 22:48]
'Supercomputer On A Chip' Promised By Cell Processor
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[February 7, 2005, 16:25]
AMD Chips Fuel New Supercomputer
News The Sunnyvale, California-based chipmaker announced that the University of Delaware has installed a 128-processor supercomputer based on 1GHz AMD Athlon processors and the Linux operating system. It would also be used to create two-processor...
[January 23, 2001, 9:25]
Boeing Puts Linux, AMD In Orbit
News Boeing on Wednesday bought a 96-processor supercomputer based on the Linux operating system and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) processors for use in designing the new Delta IV rocket that launches satellites into space.
[March 15, 2001, 8:36]
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]
Queensland Parallel Supercomputer Foundation: Shared SGI Systems Power Research Statewide
White Papers QPSF acquired a 64-processor SGI Origin 3400 shared-memory supercomputer with 64GB of memory - the first 600 MHz Origin system delivered anywhere. The Queensland Parallel Supercomputer Foundation (QPSF) is based on a simple philosophy: pool funds...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Linux Supercomputer To Simulate Space For NASA
News In the new supercomputer, each 512-processor system will run its own copy of Linux and connect to the others with an InfiniBand switch from Voltaire. NASA has picked computer maker Silicon Graphics and chipmaker Intel to develop a major...
[July 28, 2004, 9:05]
IBM Wins Bid To Build Hybrid Supercomputer
News IBM has won a bid to build a supercomputer called Roadrunner that will include not just conventional Opteron chips but also the Cell processor used in the Sony PlayStation. The supercomputer, for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, will be the...
[September 6, 2006, 10:05]
China Wants Place On Supercomputer Charts
News China plans to create the world's third most powerful supercomputer, which will also be among the first such machines to use the Opteron processor from US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). The announcement of the 4000A sheds light on an AMD...
[July 25, 2003, 9:31]
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 Supercomputer Looms Large
News To get similar supercomputer power before the introduction of the p655, IBM customers had been grouping 16-processor p670 servers or 32-processor p690 "Regatta" servers into clusters. HP is also exerting pressure on its supercomputer rivals with...
[November 18, 2002, 8:54]
IBM Puts Cell Chip To Work In Supercomputer
News IBM has delivered a "supercomputer-like" blade system based on the Cell processor it co-designed for Sony's PlayStation. The Cell processor is already being used as part of a specially built supercomputer called RoadRunner, commissioned by the Los...
[September 13, 2006, 16:20]
How To Get A Supercomputer For Free
News Dr Jörg Stadler, marketing manager for NEC's European Supercomputer Systems, said only the basic single-processor unit is being offered in the Try & Buy promotion, which kicks off a year after NEC launched the SX-6i in Europe.
[February 24, 2003, 16:32]
UK Academics Get £53m Supercomputer
News UK researchers are to have access to the largest scientific supercomputing service in Europe by the end of the year, following a deal to build a £53m supercomputer near Warrington in Cheshire. The supercomputer has been commissioned by the...
[July 17, 2002, 16:20]
Silicon Graphics To Announce Next-gen Linux Server
News The new systems were on display here in Moffett Field, California, at NASA's Ames Laboratory, which unveiled a new supercomputer called Columbia on Tuesday that can perform 42.7 trillion calculations per second, or 42.7 teraflops.
[October 27, 2004, 9:20]
Progress Without Parallel
Leader Scratch the surface of the latest Cray supercomputer - planned to be a million times faster than its antecedent and cheaper in real terms - and you'll find a few thousand bulk-standard PC processor chips, each containing the genetic code from...
[June 19, 2006, 17:20]
IBM Dominates Supercomputing List
News One of them -- a 168-processor system at the Joint Supercomputer Centre in Moscow -- uses IBM's JS20 blades. Dawning's 4000A at Shanghai Supercomputer Centre Linpack measures one aspect of supercomputer performance, but list organiser Jack Dongarra...
[June 22, 2004, 11:35]
IBM To Build Power4 Supercomputer
News The Armonk, New York company announced Friday that it will build a supercomputer capable of 4.24 trillion calculations per second for the Korea Institute of Science, Technology and Information. IBM is the dominant supercomputer maker, and its ASCI...
[July 23, 2001, 10:01]
