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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]
Desktop supercomputer aims for 1.1 teraflops
News The ESC 1000 (pictured) can use a combination of traditional microprocessors and graphics chips to attain speeds of over 1.1 teraflops, according to Asus. Using this combination of cards, the ESC 1000 can reach up to 1.104 teraflops.
[October 28, 2009, 14:13]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Cambridge rents out HPC for the cloud
News Paul Calleja, director of HPC Services at Cambridge, said it would unlock teraflops of processing power for organisations without the resources to build their own multimillion-pound server farm. Darwin is a tonne beast made up of 600 Dell servers...
[May 11, 2009, 16:57]
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]
IBM supercomputer achieves petaflop
News Last November, the Blue Gene/L was ranked as the most powerful computer on the planet: it topped out at 280 teraflops, or 280 trillion operations a second during continuous operation. The first Constellation System, which Sun hopes will be ready by...
[June 26, 2007, 10:29]
Sun funds Seti@home
News The Seti@home project has so far cost $500,000, but on a daily basis it provides the equivalent of 15 TeraFLOPS (million billion floating point operations per second) -- more raw computing power than a $110m IBM ASCI White system, rated at 12...
[December 17, 2003, 13:20]
HP dominates supercomputing leaderboard
News Of the total ability of 375 trillion calculations per second, or teraflops, IBM machines account for 34 percent. A Linux Networx system with 2,304 Xeon processors at sister lab Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was remeasured at 7.6 teraflops...
[June 23, 2003, 9:20]
