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'Supercomputer-on-a-chip' to power consumer devices
News IBM, Sony Computer Entertainment and Toshiba are planning to create new microchips that will put the power of a supercomputer into consumer devices, while enabling all kinds of gadgets to connect to each other via high-speed Internet connections.
[March 12, 2001, 15:48]
Supercomputer predicts Big Blue skies
News Apparently, you not only need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, you need one who's got an IBM supercomputer. The centre announced Friday that it has tapped Big Blue to build the world's most powerful weather supercomputer, dubbed Blue...
[December 24, 2001, 11:08]
SGI to unveil new supercomputer
News A new supercomputer from SGI packs far more computing power per square inch than competing machines -- a breakthrough the company hopes will help it flourish in what it sees as a renaissance in supercomputing.
[November 11, 2002, 15:36]
Sun expands supercomputer effort
News Sun has shown more ambition than success with its supercomputer effort, though its presence on the Top500 list of the 500 most powerful supercomputers more than doubled from 37 systems in June 2002 to 88 this month.
[November 18, 2002, 8:24]
IBM supercomputer looms large
News Bringing new meaning to the term "big iron", IBM has begun selling a new supercomputer that weighs nearly two tons in a full-fledged configuration. The system is geared to supercomputer customers, such as pharmaceutical companies or national...
[November 18, 2002, 8:54]
US Army contractor buys Mac supercomputer
News A US Army contractor has purchased a $5.8m, 1,566-server supercomputer from Apple, a real-world cousin to an academic system that briefly appeared high on a list of the most powerful machines. In November, a machine called System X with 1,100 dual...
[June 22, 2004, 10:20]
NEC goes old-school with new supercomputer
News Much of the contemporary supercomputer world is focused on machines made up of a network of smaller computers, but NEC is going retro with its new model, the SX-7. Supercomputer specialist and former NEC foe Cray sells earlier SX series computers...
[October 15, 2002, 10:03]
IBM's rent-a-supercomputer comes to Europe
News IBM has opened its first supercomputer-for-rent facility in Europe, though initially on a much smaller scale than its US counterpart. With five 32-way pSeries servers and a cluster of dual processor xSeries servers, it is significantly smaller than...
[May 13, 2004, 17:40]
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]
AMD's Opteron gets supercomputer boost
News In a deal that should buoy both computing companies, Sandia National Laboratories will install a $90m (£57m) supercomputer from Cray that will run on Opteron processors from AMD. The supercomputer, code-named Red Storm, will contain approximately...
[October 22, 2002, 7:36]
IBM's supercomputer chip breakthrough more PR than IT
Blog IBM Researchers Build Supercomputer-on-a-Chip" is typical, but if you put "ibm supercomputer" into Google news, you'll find over four hundred similar statements. [UPDATE x 2 - Yep, I got it embarrassingly wrong.
[December 6, 2007, 14:43]
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]
Nvidia in bid to become key supercomputer player
News Oak Ridge's supercomputer will be used for research in energy and climate change and is expected to be 10 times more powerful than today's fastest supercomputer. See Nvidia: Next big supercomputer player?
[October 2, 2009, 9:30]
Supercomputer firm aims switch at smaller clusters
News The QsNetII E-series equipment was used in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Thunder supercomputer, made of 1,024 four-Itanium servers and completing 19.9 trillion calculations per second. Quadrics, a company that sells networking gear to...
[June 3, 2004, 8:50]
NASA fires up supercomputer
News NASA has successfully fired up the first SGI Origin 3800 supercomputer with a single operating system spanning all 512 processors, according to SGI. But doing so makes it easier to write software than with some supercomputer designs, which...
[April 4, 2001, 10:13]
Reading supercomputer tackles climate change
News The University of Reading now has the most powerful academic supercomputer in the UK, following a substantial upgrade to its blade-based system. The supercomputer ranks 36th in the latest Top500 list of the biggest supercomputers in the world.
[July 11, 2007, 12:55]
Interoperable Supercomputer Attracts Wider User Base at Leading University
White Papers Now, the supercomputer attracts new users, furthering research possibilities. Scientists at the University of Cambridge rely on High-Performance Computing (HPC), but only specialist researchers used the existing system based on Linux - other...
[February 27, 2009, 0:23]
Met Office supercomputer not as forecast
Blog 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. The IBM supercomputer was delivered some time ago, and is going through its testing and...
[May 22, 2009, 11:51]
Big Mac supercomputer heads for top ranks
News A supercomputer built by US university Virginia Tech from 1,100 dual-processor Macintosh G5 PCs looks likely to rank with the five fastest-ranked machines in the world, despite costing a relative pittance.
[October 23, 2003, 13:00]
Cray supercomputer goes dual-core
News Red Storm follows in the footsteps of another Sandia supercomputer, ASCI Red, which in the late 1990s led the list of the 500 fastest supercomputers. The Red Storm computer, a machine Cray will start building at Sandia National Laboratories this...
[July 30, 2004, 10:25]
