Intel Plans Supercomputing Push
News At 20 teraflops, or 20 trillion floating-point calculations per second, Thunder would be the second-fastest supercomputer in the world if it were running now, following NEC's Earth Simulator, said Rick Herrmann, high-performance computing program...
[November 17, 2003, 12:20]
HP Plans To Upgrade Integrity Server Line
News Because of the Montecito delay, HP introduced its current generation of new systems in a two-phase plan called "Lightning" and "Thunder". With Thunder, those models are being upgraded with Montecito. HP plans to announce on Thursday that it is...
[September 7, 2006, 9:00]
Supercomputing: Small Firms Making A Big Impact
News Thunder, a supercomputer recently installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is possibly the second-most powerful computing machine on the planet -- and it was built by a company with about as many employees as a real estate office.
[May 18, 2004, 11:35]
Small Firm Creates Supercomputer Thunder
News Thunder, a supercomputer recently installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is possibly the second-most powerful computing machine on the planet -- and it was built by a company with about as many employees as a real-estate office.
[May 11, 2004, 10:30]
AMD Confirms Loss Due To Intel Pressure
News Intel is due to preview its Pentium III (Katmai) processor later this month with AMD claiming it is moving its release date of its Sharptooth K6-3 chip forward to steal Intel's thunder. AMD's share price stood at $18.94 before trading was stopped...
[February 5, 1999, 10:45]
AMD Aims At 64-bit PCs
News This is part of Operation Rolling Thunder, AMD's campaign to introduce the chip, he said. The new chip could provide a similar boost for the company and allow it to counter the rapid rise in clock speed of rival Intel's Pentium 4, which will hit...
[July 25, 2002, 11:50]
Dell And AMD: Looking Back Through The Years
News A renewed HP is stealing all of Dell's thunder, IBM is planning to broaden its use of AMD technology, and Sun's AMD servers have given it hope for the future. There's not enough of a performance advantage"; "We need lots of chips, more than AMD can...
[August 21, 2006, 10:25]
AMD Sets New Mobile Beasts On Centrino
News AMD loves trying to steal Intel's thunder with the release of a new processor or other related technology right before or during Intel's shows. AMD is pushing both processors as alternatives to Intel's Centrino-based mobile Pentium chips, which...
[August 22, 2005, 15:20]
Microsoft Wants Windows On Supercomputers
News No.system "Thunder," California Digital's 4,096-processor machine built for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, runs Linux, as do the two new Blue Gene/L prototypes from IBM that are in the top 10 today.
[June 24, 2004, 9:35]
IBM Dominates Supercomputing List
News As expected, the No.position is held by California Digital's Thunder, a system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that boasts 4,096 of Intel's Itanium 2 processors and a speed of 19.9 teraflops.
[June 22, 2004, 11:35]
Intel Admits Itanium Failings
News Intel was forced to announce EM64T earlier than it hoped, because rival Advanced Micro Devices was stealing too much thunder with its own version of the technology, AMD64, which went on sale with the Opteron processor in 2003, Eunice said.
[September 8, 2004, 9:20]
Solaris Code Due Today
News Sun's OpenSolaris plan -- to be formally unveiled on Tuesday, along with legal details, the OpenSolaris.org Web site and a new community advisory board -- is an attempt to steal some of the thunder of Linux.
[January 25, 2005, 8:00]
Crusoe Chip Gets First Suitor
News Chief technology officer at S3, Andy Wolfe is delighted to steal some of Transmeta's considerable thunder: "Through partnering with technology leaders, such as Transmeta, S3 is focused on building a sustainable leadership position in emerging high...
[January 20, 2000, 17:37]
A Year Ago: Crusoe Chip Gets First Suitor
News Chief technology officer at S3, Andy Wolfe is delighted to steal some of Transmeta's considerable thunder: "Through partnering with technology leaders, such as Transmeta, S3 is focused on building a sustainable leadership position in emerging high...
[January 20, 2001, 6:06]
Athlon Dual-processing Could Be Nigh
News Beta testing has begun on a motherboard from Tyan Computer, the S2462UNGM, or Thunder K7, according to several Web sites for the developer community. A launch date for the Thunder K7 has not yet been announced.
[May 11, 2001, 16:11]
Supercomputer Firm Aims Switch At Smaller Clusters
News The QsNetII E-series equipment was used in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Thunder supercomputer, made of 1,024 four-Itanium servers and completing 19.9 trillion calculations per second. Quadrics supports its network adapters for Linux on...
[June 3, 2004, 8:50]
Symbol Mini Wireless LAN Card Upstages Compaq
News Compaq's portable iPaq pocket PC may have had its thunder stolen -- by a new wireless card from Symbol, which uses a compact flash socket. For network experts, Symbol may have gained more notice with its simultaneous announcement of support for...
[May 8, 2001, 14:29]
