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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]
Leading University Creates UK's Fastest Academic Supercomputer Through Collaborative Partnership
White Papers The university implemented Dell PowerEdge servers in a high performance computing cluster that has become the fastest academic supercomputer in the country. Cambridge University has had supercomputers for use in complex research since 1992.
[October 11, 2008, 1:01]
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]
Cray to announce Opteron-based supercomputer
News The new Opteron system combines technology from the company's XT3 design, initially developed for Sandia National Laboratories' Red Storm supercomputer, and the XD1 systems from Cray's acquisition of OctigaBay, said Jan Silverman, senior vice...
[November 13, 2006, 9:06]
Desktop supercomputer aims for 1.1 teraflops
News Asus has unveiled a mini-supercomputer based on Nvidia graphics chips and a 3.33GHz Xeon. The mini-supercomputer, which was developed in conjunction with graphics tech company Nvidia, can use an Nvidia Quadro FX5800 graphics card, combined with...
[October 28, 2009, 14:13]
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-based BladeCenter QS20 will be part of IBM's System Cluster 1350, Linux supercomputer.
[September 13, 2006, 16:20]
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]
'Gordon' supercomputer will use flash to solve hard questions
News A supercomputer which uses flash memory instead of traditional hard drives is to be developed by the San Diego Supercomputer Center. The supercomputer, to be called 'Gordon', will use flash memory to speed computation, said San Diego Supercomputer...
[November 6, 2009, 14:24]
IBM releases supercomputer details
News IBM is shedding light on a programme to create the world's fastest supercomputer, illuminating a dual-pronged strategy, an unusual new processor design and a proclivity for the Linux operating system.
[May 8, 2003, 12:03]
India unveils new supercomputer
News India joined the ranks of the US, Japan and China in the quest for high-performance computing this week with the launch of its latest domestic supercomputer. The PARAM Padma computer was developed by India's Center for Development of Advanced...
[April 2, 2003, 8:44]
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). According to the official People's Daily, Chinese...
[July 25, 2003, 9:31]
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]
UK to get 100 teraflop supercomputer
News HECToR is an ambitious plan to build a supercomputer for Britain's scientists to use in their cutting-edge research. The world's fastest supercomputer is Blue Gene/L, based at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, with a top...
[April 3, 2006, 17:35]
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]
How to get a supercomputer for free
News But NEC says the SX-6i is a true supercomputer because of its data-handling capabilities. The only catch is that aspiring supercomputer owners have to submit a research idea that NEC likes, and if they are allocated one they get to keep it for...
[February 24, 2003, 16:32]
IBM backs £54m supercomputer centre
News IBM, in conjunction with other companies, will help build a supercomputer centre at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the US. The centre is expected to develop new semiconductors and advancing nanotechnology.
[May 12, 2006, 10:45]
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]
SGI supercomputer breaks speed record twice
News Even as Silicon Graphics trumpeted on Tuesday a new speed record with the Columbia supercomputer it built for NASA, ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com has learned, it quietly submitted another, faster result: 51.9 trillion calculations per second.
[October 27, 2004, 14:25]
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]
