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Intel shows teraflop chips
News It contained 80 teraflop chips, which each contained 80 processing cores, alongside some super-fast SRAM. Ten years ago, the first teraflop computer was built. Paul Otellini holds up a magnified image of the wafer containing 80 teraflop chips
[September 26, 2006, 18:20]
UK to get 100 teraflop supercomputer
Talkback As long as we are faster than france i dont mind!
[April 4, 2006, 13:24]
Intel shows teraflop chips
Talkback picoChip has around four hundred processors able to do fixed point in parallel! Giving huge amounts of processing power! Worth a look!
[September 27, 2006, 13:21]
Blue Gene/L cruises past 100 teraflop barrier
Talkback I suppose everybody knows it is running linux, but still, and more about that here: http://www.forbes.com/home/enterprisetech/2005/03/15/cz_dl_0315linux.html
[March 24, 2005, 10:51]
UK to get 100 teraflop supercomputer
News The government is giving £52m to a project to build one of the world's fastest supercomputers in the UK. Lord Sainsbury, science minister, announced last Friday that the government was providing financial backing to the HECToR (High-End Computing...
[April 3, 2006, 17:35]
Big Blue breaks 36 Teraflop barrier to take supercomputing speed lead
News IBM claimed first place on Wednesday in a supercomputer speed competition with an expanded version of its Blue Gene/L, which beat a Japanese machine from NEC. But a new Silicon Graphics machine has a chance at giving Big Blue a run for the title.
[September 30, 2004, 10:55]
Blue Gene/L cruises past 100 teraflop barrier
News IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer has doubled its own performance record by doubling in size; the machine has now performed at 135.5 teraflops, the Department of Energy said on Wednesday. The system, which is in the process of being installed at...
[March 24, 2005, 9:15]
Australian supercomputer reaches for the stars
News A cluster of 240 Intel CPUs at Swinburne University of Technology will be among the world's 50 fastest computers and only the second system in Australia capable of performing one teraflop (one trillion floating-point operations per second).
[September 3, 2002, 9:52]
China wants place on supercomputer charts
News According to the Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers, top place is held by the NEC Earth Simulator in Japan, with a 36 teraflop rating. Second and third place are occupied by two identical HP systems called ASCI Q at Los Alamos...
[July 25, 2003, 9:31]
US to build supercomputer grid
News Argonne National Laboratory will have a 1 teraflop machine and the California Institute of Technology a 0.4 teraflop machine. The US' National Science Foundation has awarded contracts worth $53m (£37m) to build a grid that connects supercomputer...
[August 10, 2001, 9:42]
HP dominates supercomputing leaderboard
News More than a tenth of the total comes from the Japanese Earth Simulator, a behemoth with a 36 teraflop rating. Second and third place were occupied by two identical HP systems called ASCI Q at Los Alamos National Laboratory that now have been...
[June 23, 2003, 9:20]
New entries join supercomputing top 10
News Also according to the projections, a system must have about 1 teraflop performance to make it on the list at all. In 1993, the total performance was just over 1 teraflop; it reached 10 teraflops in 1997, 100 teraflops in 2001 and list compilers...
[November 17, 2003, 9:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Twenty of these should be able to reach a teraflop. And I don’t honestly know what the global market is for teraflop-sized commercial systems, nor I suspect does anyone else. It’s even impossible to imagine what on earth would happen if the Silicon...
[July 22, 2005, 18:45]
Japanese chip 'faster than supercomputer'
News IBM and the University of Texas have a similar teraflop-on-a-chip project. Research also continues at the University of Tokyo to develop a quasi general purpose chip capable of 1 teraflop, or a trillion calculations a second.
[August 25, 2004, 7:55]
IBM to build fastest supercomputers to date
News The 360-teraflop performance of Blue Gene/L is expected to be more than the collective 293-terflop ability of today's entire Top500 supercomputer list. Next came the three-teraflop machines, Blue Mountain, built by SGI for Los Alamos National...
[November 19, 2002, 9:53]
SGI supercomputer breaks speed record twice
News On a secondary but still scrutinised measurement, peak speed, Columbia ran at 61.0 teraflops, a smidgen ahead of the 60-teraflop speed Intel President Paul Otellini predicted in September. Even as Silicon Graphics trumpeted on Tuesday a new speed...
[October 27, 2004, 14:25]
India unveils new supercomputer
News The PARAM Padma computer was developed by India's Center for Development of Advanced Computer (C-DAC) and promises processing speeds of up to one teraflop per second, a tenfold increase over the country's previous supercomputer, reported Reuters.
[April 2, 2003, 8:44]
Cray's nuclear simulator to hit mass market
News Due out sometime in 2004, the supercomputers will utilise Cray's MPP (massively parallel processing) architecture, which it is employing in the design of Red Storm, a 40-teraflop (40 trillion calculations per second) device ordered by the DOE's...
[October 27, 2003, 15:40]
Seti's Boinc project hit by DDoS attack
News Five years after its launch, Seti has cost about $500,000, but the project has produced more raw computing power than a 12 teraflop IBM ASCI White system, which would normally cost about $110m. The University of California's distributed-computing...
[July 29, 2004, 10:10]
Intel: Teraflops industry standard chip on way
News It will deliver a teraflop level of performance using an IA [Intel Architecture] compatible core. Amid a slew of product announcements at Intel's Developer Forum in Beijing, enterprise division head Pat Gelsinger has unveiled plans for a teraflops...
[April 17, 2007, 13:02]
