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Japan Aims For World's Fastest Computer By 2010
News Government officials in Japan said on Monday that they are planning to build the world's fastest supercomputer, according to a report in The Japan Times on Tuesday. Japan hosted the world's fastest computer, the 36 teraflop Earth Simulator, for two...
[July 26, 2005, 15:25]
Asus Unveils World's 'fastest' Smartphone
News Asus has announced what it claims is the world's fastest smartphone to date: the Windows Mobile 6.1-based P565. By contrast, the processor used in Apple's iPhone 3G has the potential to run at 667MHz, although it only runs at 400MHz — probably to...
[November 18, 2008, 12:38]
AMD Chips In With Cray For World's Fastest Computer
News The world's first commercial one-petaflops supercomputer has been commissioned, Cray announced on Thursday. A one-petaflops supercomputer can make a million billion high-precision calculations per second using real-world numbers.
[June 19, 2006, 14:50]
Accelerating One Of The World's Fastest Databases
White Papers With an estimated 4 million installations and over 35,000 downloads per day, MySQL is the world's most popular open source database. The MySQL AB engineers wanted to identify performance bottlenecks and also areas of optimization concern for MySQL...
[December 14, 2004, 23:00]
Japan Aims For World's Fastest Computer By 2010
Talkback I don't know what to say about that. Whoopty frig. Now put it in my home.
[July 27, 2005, 3:53]
AMD Chips In With Cray For World's Fastest Computer
Talkback AMD performs better, just look at the hardware speed tests. Simple decision if based on performance.
[June 20, 2006, 13:56]
AMD Chips In With Cray For World's Fastest Computer
Talkback It seems ironic that Intel launch a superb range of processors - with emphasis not only on high performance, but also on lower power consumption, then Cray announce a petaflop machine based around AMD processors.
[June 20, 2006, 11:25]
RAM-SAN™ "The World's Fastest Storage"
White Papers The RAM-SAN is the storage appliance built for speed. Its data storage media is based on fast SDRAMs instead of slow moving mechanical drives. Utilizing a memory bus architecture similar to high performance servers, the RAM-SAN can support dozens...
[March 23, 2004, 23:00]
News Burst: The World's Fastest Graphics Out In January
News Confidential documents of Nvidia in the hands of ZDNet Germany show that the new GPU NV20 will be up to seven times faster than the fastest GPU currently available. Its performance will depend on the application: with simple animation the NV20 is...
[November 23, 2000, 12:13]
Oracle Launches 'world's Fastest Database Machine'
News The HP Oracle Database Machine is preconfigured and certified to run Oracle's business-intelligence apps and real application clusters. At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, HP chief executive Mark Hurd joins Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison...
[September 26, 2008, 17:48]
Sky In World's Smallest Fibre Trial
Blog We're the UK's fastest growing broadband provider and we're always exploring ways to give customers a better service. We know BT's trialling this stuff (well, fibre-all-the-way-to-the-home) in the Ebbsfleet development, but is Murdoch about to...
[July 9, 2008, 14:43]
World's First 3G Phone Network Goes Live
News Japanese phone giant NTT DoCoMo on Monday unveiled the world's fastest phone network plus three new phones capable of things like real-time videoconferencing or sending and receiving e-mail attachments with 10,000 characters.
[October 1, 2001, 9:24]
Nuggets: Panasonic Claims World's Smallest DV Camera
News Weighing only 400g, Panasonic reckons its NV-EX3B is the world's smallest and lightest digital video camera. Claiming yet more world firsts, Panasonic says the camera has the fastest available zoom speed of half a second across the entire optical...
[October 18, 1999, 15:42]
IBM Paves Way To 100GHz Chips
News As expected, IBM today announced the world's fastest silicon-based transistor, paving the way to speeds five times faster than at present. The device isn't the fastest transistor in the world, but it does use standard production techniques -- other...
[June 25, 2001, 18:23]
British TV Bans 'fastest' Mac G5
News British TV regulators have banned an ad for Apple Computer's Power Mac G5, saying its claim to the title "world's fastest personal computer" is not fully supported. The agency concluded that "there was insufficient evidence to support the claim...
[November 12, 2003, 9:50]
Mac Cluster Rises In Supercomputing Ranks
News A supercomputer formed of a cluster of Macintosh G5 PCs has inched higher in the list of the world's fastest machines, ahead of all but two rivals -- and its performance could still improve, according to the system's architect.
[October 31, 2003, 13:10]
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]
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. The world's fastest supercomputer is Blue Gene/L, based at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, with a top speed of 367...
[April 3, 2006, 17:35]
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. In 1993, IBM got its first systems onto the Top500...
[November 19, 2002, 9:53]
IBM Breaks The Petaflop Barrier
News Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop — 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second — twice as fast as the world's previous fastest computer, Blue Gene.
[June 10, 2008, 11:09]
