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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]
'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]
News Burst: Compaq Launches Supercomputer
News Compaq has rolled out its first supercomputer, the AlphaServer SC Series. The most powerful of its AlphaServer products so far, it features up to 128 AlphaServer SMP building blocks, each having around the same computing power of an 8 processor...
[November 18, 1999, 11:06]
IBM Supercomputer To Fight Florida Storms
News Florida State University has introduced the world's biggest university owned supercomputer Monday. But the presence of the new supercomputer will allow the data to be processed much faster, meaning the department can send predictions to hurricane...
[August 15, 2000, 15:10]
IBM Debuts Commercial Supercomputer
News IBM introduced Monday a commercial version of what it claims is the world's most powerful supercomputer, able to process 12.3 trillion calculations per second. The computer, also known as RS/6000 SP, aims to take advantage of a shift in...
[July 24, 2000, 12:21]
HP Moves Up In Supercomputer List
News A supercomputer for simulating nuclear explosions has advanced Hewlett-Packard's position in a ranking to be released Thursday night of the 500 fastest supercomputers. The supercomputing industry has entered a frenzy of activity in anticipation of...
[November 15, 2002, 8:21]
News Burst: IBM Supercomputer Seeks Objects In Space
News The Air Force Space Surveillance Team based in Maui, Hawaii, announced Tuesday that it has selected IBM's SP supercomputer to identify objects in space that are being tracked by Air Force telescopes. The supercomputer uses 320 IBM Power3-II...
[November 22, 2000, 11:52]
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]
Linux Supercomputer To Simulate Space For NASA
News NASA has picked computer maker Silicon Graphics and chipmaker Intel to develop a major supercomputer based on Linux to simulate space exploration and conduct other research, SGI announced on Tuesday. The new supercomputer is part of a NASA...
[July 28, 2004, 9:05]
PNNL's HP Supercomputer Is Fastest Open System In U.S.
White Papers The solution was world's fastest Linux-based supercomputer running on Intel Itanium2 processors, 980 node single cluster of HP rx2600 servers, 53 TB storage area network, QSNet2/Elan4 interconnect from Quadrics, Linux operating system and HP...
[January 12, 2005, 23:00]
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]
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]
IBM Supercomputer To Drive Brain Research
News IBM has sold a multimillion-dollar model of its new Blue Gene/L supercomputer to simulate the workings of the human brain. The Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, purchased the supercomputer, dubbed Blue Brain...
[June 6, 2005, 10:00]
AMD Chips Fuel New Supercomputer
News Advanced Micro Devices on Monday added another Athlon-based supercomputer to its resume. The Sunnyvale, California-based chipmaker announced that the University of Delaware has installed a 128-processor supercomputer based on 1GHz AMD Athlon...
[January 23, 2001, 9:25]
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]
Cray Supercomputer Will Draw Power From Sun
News Supercomputer stalwart Cray announced a deal to use new Sun Microsystems servers in a design the company will begin selling later this year. Cray will use the Sun Fire 6800 -- the most powerful of the new generation of servers based on Sun's...
[March 29, 2001, 10:06]
Accenture Demos The 'Pocket Supercomputer'
News Accenture's "Pocket Supercomputer" is in fact a phone behaving like a thin client. The researchers are currently in the process of adding features to the Pocket Supercomputer. The camera on the phone is used to take a video of an object — such as a...
[January 30, 2008, 16:22]
IBM Sells Supercomputer To GM
News General Motors has purchased an IBM supercomputer capable of performing 9 trillion calculations per second to speed up crash and safety simulations, giving a significant shot in the arm to Big Blue's supercomputer effort.
[April 22, 2004, 9:30]
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]
Supercomputer Is F1 Team's Secret Weapon
News Formula One team BMW-Sauber has revealed the secret weapon in its attempt to move up the grid in 2007 — the fastest supercomputer in industrial use in Europe. The supercomputer's architecture has been developed by Switzerland-based Dalco while the...
[January 5, 2007, 8:37]
