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IBM's Roadrunner holds onto Top500 crown
News IBM's Roadrunner and Cray's Jaguar have retained their No.and No.rankings on the Top500 supercomputer list, which is drawn up twice a year. Roadrunner, the first machine to break the petaflop barrier a year ago, registered 1.105 petaflops to top...
[June 24, 2009, 13:01]
Supercomputers go even larger
News It's getting hard to keep a place on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers. The Top500 ranking of supercomputers, released twice a year by researchers at the universities of Tennessee and Mannheim, Germany, experienced heavy turnover, with...
[June 21, 2002, 11:19]
AMD takes top three places in supercomputer list
News AMD has claimed the top three spots in the latest list of the top 500 supercomputers in the world. The 34th edition of the TOP500 list, which is published twice annually by US and German computing academics, came out on Friday.
[November 16, 2009, 14:46]
IBM loses supercomputer crown
News Supercomputer experts have released a more sophisticated ranking of the world's brawniest computers, and the new order has toppled IBM from the top spot. IBM has kept its place atop the last three versions of the Top500 ranking of the world's...
[November 29, 2001, 8:42]
US Army contractor buys Mac supercomputer
News A US Army contractor has purchased a $5.8m, 1,566-server supercomputer from Apple, a real-world cousin to an academic system that briefly appeared high on a list of the most powerful machines. In November, a machine called System X with 1,100 dual...
[June 22, 2004, 10:20]
Top 500 supercomputers announced
News It was November 2000 when the first supercomputer passed four teraflops, or four trillion calculations per second. Now, that's the minimum requirement to even show up on the latest version of a list of the 500 fastest machines.
[June 27, 2007, 10:38]
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]
Blue Gene set to claim supercomputing crown
News The US Department of Energy plans to unveil test results on Thursday that are likely to place IBM's Blue Gene/L as the fastest supercomputer in the world, CNET News.com has learned. The agency will announce that Blue Gene/L performed more than 70...
[November 4, 2004, 8:33]
Linux to enter supercomputing top five
News The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), in California, is to build the world's largest and most powerful Linux supercomputer, for use with national security projects. The supercomputing cluster will consist of 962 nodes running on 1,920...
[July 17, 2002, 13:10]
IBM's Roadrunner to smash supercomputing records
News IBM once again dominated the competition in semi-annual rankings of supercomputers, but the big news is what's coming next year. The company is working on a computer nicknamed "Roadrunner" that will combine Cell processors, a family of chips found...
[November 13, 2007, 7:24]
Chinese supercomputer heads towards top of rankings
News A Chinese supercomputer, the Dawning 4000A, is expected to rank high on an upcoming list of the fastest machines, underscoring geopolitical effects of a new approach to high-performance computing. Dawning Information Industry, a Chinese company...
[June 4, 2004, 9:20]
Reading supercomputer tackles climate change
News The University of Reading now has the most powerful academic supercomputer in the UK, following a substantial upgrade to its blade-based system. Reading now has the fastest hardware of any British university, ahead of former front-runner Cambridge...
[July 11, 2007, 12:55]
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]
Intel plans supercomputing push
News Intel plans to dedicate $36m for basic research to improving the performance of supercomputers made from off-the-shelf parts as it continues to expand its reach in the very high end of the computer market.
[November 17, 2003, 12:20]
IBM to build fastest supercomputers to date
News IBM has won a $290m government contract to build what are expected to be the world's two fastest supercomputers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the company plans to announce on Tuesday. One machine, ASCI Purple for nuclear weapons...
[November 19, 2002, 9:53]
Sun expands supercomputer effort
News Sun Microsystems will take a major step into supercomputing on Monday with the announcement of Fire Link, a technology that joins its high-end servers into a single high-performance cluster. In earlier years, supercomputers were single, massive...
[November 18, 2002, 8:24]
Supercomputing on tour
News Andrew Brockfield shies away from the term 'grudge match', but he concedes there's national pride involved as the race to build the world's fastest supercomputers continues to push the bar upwards at dizzying speed.
[September 26, 2005, 10:45]
Red Hat simplifies platform for Linux supercomputing
News Red Hat on Thursday introduced what it called the first fully integrated, Linux-based, high-performance-computing platform, claiming to undercut a similar Windows-based system recently introduced by Microsoft.
[October 3, 2008, 15:25]
China launches first supercomputer
News China achieved a major advance in its technology ambitions as computer vendor Legend Group launched the country's first world-class domestic supercomputer. Named the Legend Deepcomp 1800, Legend said its first supercomputer was able to reach a...
[September 2, 2002, 8:57]
Blue Gene/L beats own speed record
News Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and IBM unveiled the Blue Gene/L supercomputer on Thursday and announced that it has broken its own record again for the world's fastest supercomputer. The 65,536-processor machine can sustain 280.6 trillion...
[October 28, 2005, 8:20]
