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Intel: Teraflops Industry Standard Chip On Way
News Amid a slew of product announcements at Intel's Developer Forum in Beijing, enterprise division head Pat Gelsinger has unveiled plans for a teraflops IA architecture code-named Larrabee. Intel chief technology officer Justin Ratner showed the...
[April 17, 2007, 13:02]
The Power Of 9.2 Teraflops
White Papers Many companies have saved money and increased efficiency with HP Linux solutions. Now, Linux is enabling true supercomputers at lower cost than traditional platforms, and HP is leading the charge. In April 2002, HP and the U.S.
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Optimizing Performance On Linux Clusters Using Advanced Communication Protocols: How 10+ Teraflops Was Achieved On A 8.6 Teraflops Linpack-Rated Linux Cluster
White Papers The result was achieving over 10 teraflops on HP Linux cluster on which LINPACK performance is measured as 8.6 teraflops. Advancements in high-performance networks (Quadrics, Infiniband or Myrinet) continue to improve the efficiency of modern...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Ac3: Triumph In Teraflops - Ac3 Breaks Australia's Teraflops Barrier
White Papers Owned by the government of New South Wales (NSW), ac3 is creating a world-class, High-Performance Computing (HPC) center that will help promote economic and employment growth in Australia by providing computing resources and services to industry...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Larrabee Leakage...
Blog A quick update on the Larrabee many-core processor that Intel says will get the standard architecture running at teraflops in the next couple of years. We know from a couple of asides that it has 'tens' of cores, and if we're looking for a...
[April 18, 2007, 6:55]
Top 500 Supercomputers Announced
News It was November 2000 when the first supercomputer passed four teraflops, or four trillion calculations per second. But one familiar supercomputer, IBM's Blue Gene/L at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, again topped the Top500 Supercomputer...
[June 27, 2007, 10:38]
Cray's King-of-the-hill Supercomputer
News Cray's X1 will offer up to 52.4 teraflops, or trillion mathematical calculations per second. The fastest supercomputer in use right now, NEC's Earth Simulator, delivers 35.6 teraflops. Aside from creating the X1 systems, Cray is also under contract...
[November 14, 2002, 14:56]
'Big Mac' Gets An Upgrade
News Virginia Tech plans to announce on Tuesday that its System X now operates at 12.25 teraflops, or 12 trillion calculations per second, up from 10.28 teraflops in its original incarnation, which used 1,100 Power Mac G5s.
[October 26, 2004, 15:10]
Intel Dual-Core HPC Cluster Uses Next-Generation Intel Xeon Processors
White Papers Intel has delivered on Moore's Law using dual-core processing to build a 128-node High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster that delivers theoretical peak performance of 3.2 teraflops and sustained performance of over 2.1 teraflops.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Intel Dual-Core HPC Cluster: A High-Performance Computing Testbed Of Next-Generation Intel Xeon Processors
White Papers Intel has delivered on "Moore's Law" using dual-core processing to build a 128-node High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster that delivers theoretical peak performance of 3.2 teraflops and sustained performance of over 2.1 teraflops.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Nottingham To Offer 'supercomputing For All'
News Dr Frazer Pearce, who is leading the project, said the £1.3m supercomputer consists of 512 AMD Opteron processor-based Sun Fire V20z servers and will run at speeds of up to three teraflops. Swansea University is working with IBM to build a...
[February 10, 2005, 11:35]
Cray Supercomputer Goes Dual-core
News The first incarnation of the $90m (£350m) machine is expected to have a processing capacity of 41.5 trillion mathematical calculations per second, or 41.5 teraflops. By the end of 2005, the system should reach 100 teraflops after it's upgraded with...
[July 30, 2004, 10:25]
SGI Claims Supercomputing Victory
News The speed is a notch faster than the 36.1 teraflops IBM reported for its Blue Gene/L system in September. The system, a $50m Linux-based NASA machine called Columbia, which SGI sold in July, can perform 42.7 trillion calculations per second, or...
[October 27, 2004, 9:05]
Big Mac Supercomputer Heads For Top Ranks
News In preliminary performance tests carried out on 2,112 of the system's 2,200 processors, the so-called "Big Mac" cluster achieved 8.1 teraflops, or trillions of operations per second, according to figures published on Wednesday.
[October 23, 2003, 13:00]
SGI Supercomputer Breaks Speed Record Twice
News During the unveiling of the Columbia supercomputer, SGI touted a speed of 42.7 trillion calculations per second, or 42.7 teraflops. That handily beat the machine at the top of a list of the world's 500 fastest machines, NEC's Earth Simulator at...
[October 27, 2004, 14:25]
Europe's Most Powerful Supercomputer Launched
News This gives JUBL a total of 16,384 processors, and a maximum processing speed of 45.6 teraflops, which would have put it in fifth place in the global supercomputing Top500 when the list was last updated in November, 2005.
[March 14, 2006, 7:25]
Wales Becomes Supercomputing Player
News Blue C has an average speed of 1.7 teraflops and a maximum speed of 2.7 teraflops, which the Assembly claims makes it one of the top supercomputers in the life sciences field. The list is topped by IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer at the US...
[January 11, 2005, 11:25]
Japan Plans Super Grid Computer
News The Naregi (National Research Grid Initiative) plan hopes to create a supercomputer rated at 100 teraflops by 2007. The fastest computer today, Japan's NEC Earth Simulator, runs at 36 teraflops. The Japanese government, commercial bodies and...
[July 11, 2003, 8:57]
Mac Cluster Rises In Supercomputing Ranks
News According to the latest performance figures from Virginia Tech's Terascale Cluster, nicknamed the Big Mac, the system is computing at 9.55 trillion operations per second, or teraflops. That puts it behind only Japan's Earth Simulator, at 35.8...
[October 31, 2003, 13:10]
UK To Get 100 Teraflop Supercomputer
News When built, it will be capable of 100 teraflops - six times more powerful than the UK's current supercomputers, and making it powerful enough to simulate climate systems and extremely detailed atomic structures.
[April 3, 2006, 17:35]
