The Fastest Blade Runner
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His legs were amputated when he was a year old. Now Oscar Pistorius is on track to make the South African Olympic team. Is he an engineering marvel -- or just one hell of a sprinter? By Josh McHugh from Wired magazine.
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Computer giant IBM announced this week that it has developed the world&#39;s fastest computer, putting it back on top after a Japanese supercomputer claimed the title some two years ago.
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MOFFETT FIELD, Calif.--Even as Silicon Graphics trumpeted on Tuesday a new speed record with its Columbia supercomputer built for NASA, CNET News.
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Big Blue has brought the title of the worldâs fastest supercomputer back to the US for the first time in three years. IBMs still incomplete Blue Gene/L system has been officially named the fastest in the
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The Cruzer Contour's literature contains some impressive performance claims --principally that it has a write speed of 18Mbit/sec and reads at 25Mbit/sec. But it had a difficult time stacking up against the competition.
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Blue Gene/L, A supercomputer developed by IBM (IBM:NYSE - news - research) and the US Department of Energy, has clinched the title as the world&#39;s fastest, beating out a previously top-ranked computer from Japan&#39;s NEC.
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Machines that only a few years ago seemed to be the stuff of fantasy are slowly but surely reaching the mainstream.  Photos: IBM's Blue Gene/L  Photos: Barcelona's big blade
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IBM claims it has already developed a new BlueGene model that had surpassed the one petaflop barrier - one quadrillion sustained operations per second. But it may be another five months before that fact is verified by the University of Mannheim, which today recorded the 65,536 x2-core BlueGene/L as holding the lead in its Top 500 Supercomputers list, with an unchanged rating of 280,600 gigaflops per second.
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With performance almost double that of the Earth Simulator, in Yokohama, Japan, IBM&#39;s Blue Gene/L on Monday was officially ranked first on the Top500 list of the world&#39;s fastest supercomputers.
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A supercomputer being built by IBM for the US Department of Energy (DOE) has topped a list of the world&#39;s fastest computers. The Blue Gene/L beta-system can perform 70,720 billion calculations per second, which
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Scientist at CERN have successfully achieved a new land-speed record on the new internet2. The researchers were able to send 859GB of data in less than 17 minutes at a rate of 6.63 gigabits per second, a speed
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IBM&#39;s Blue Gene/L supercomputer has recaptured the speed record briefly held by Silicon Graphics Columbia system. Blue Gene/L, which is being installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, hit 70.
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The supercomputer, Blue Gene/L, is faster than NEC Corp.&#39;s Earth Simulator, which had been the world&#39;s fastest with its ability to sustain speeds of 35.
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The Motley Fool - IBM (NYSE: IBM - News) reported last week that it won the bid to supply the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration with its latest supercomputer. It will begin installing the first phase of the machine, nicknamed Roadrunner, this October. When it's fully operational in 2008, Roadrunner will be four times more powerful than the world's fastest computer, able to perform 1 quadrillion operations per second
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Twenty-five years after "Blade Runner" was panned by critics and pulled from theaters, U.S. director Ridley Scott savors revenge with the final cut of the science-fiction film now considered a cult classic.
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An IBM supercomputer still under development has set an unofficial new world speed record during testing, the company announced on Wednesday.
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IBM has brought the title of the world&#39;s fastest supercomputer back to the United States for the first time in three years... IBM&#39;s still incomplete Blue Gene/L system was officially named the fastest in the