IBM reclaims top supercomputer crown for U.S.
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For the first time since 2002, Japan's Earth Simulator is not the most powerful supercomputer on the planet.
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IBM Corp. plans to announce Wednesday that it has built the world's fastest supercomputer at one of its facilities in Rochester, Minn., wresting the title from a system in Japan. -The Washington Post
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IBM Corp. still operates the fastest supercomputer in the industry, but rival Hewlett-Packard Co. has more of them in operation, according to a closely-watched global survey released Wednesday.
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The US is poised to push Japan off the top of the supercomputing charts with an IBM prototype Blue Gene machine.
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International Business Machines Corp. on Wednesday said 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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The US government&#39;s latest supercomputer, BlueGene/L, has been officially crowned the most powerful number cruncher on the planet.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM and Cray have beat out Sun Microsystems to win sizable U.S government contracts to design a new generation supercomputer. On Tuesday the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded the two companies four-year contracts to design a supercomputer that is 100 times more powerful than today's most powerful systems, yet is simpler to program, administer and use. Cray's contract is valued at $250 million and IBM's is worth $244 million. Each company is expected to have a prototype supercomputer ready by 2010. The contracts were awarded as part of DARPA's High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) program, which is targeted at the national security community, science and industrial sectors. Launched in 2002, its goal is to develop a system capable of performing calculations at the rate of two to four petaflop per second. A petaflop is one quadrillion (one thousand trillion) calculations per second. "Flop" stands for floating-point operations. TheÂ fastest supercomputer in operationÂ today, an IBM BlueGene system, operates at 360 teraflops, or 360 trillion calculations per second. Sun Microsystems, which had been funded in earlier rounds of the contract, lost out on the latest round. However the company still plans to integrate the technology it had been developing into its product lines, a Sun spokeswoman said. Besides developing prototypes of the supercomputers, IBM and Cray are also tasked with building programming tools that speed the time it takes to write applications tenfold compared with what was possible when the HPCS program began. DARPA says the ultimate goal of the project is to create a new generation of economically viable high productivity computing systems that can be sold to national security and high-end industrial users. Federal agencies likely to use the supercomputers will include the National Security Agency, the Department of Energy Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Agency.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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A Spanish supercomputer built by IBM has captured the world speed record for a machine using standard blade servers.
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NEW YORK, September 29  - International Business Machines Corporation (IBM.NYS) has claimed to have developed the world&#39;s fastest supercomputer.
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An I.B.M. machine has reclaimed the title of fastest supercomputer, overtaking a Japanese computer that had caused shock waves at United States government agencies when it set a computing speed record in 2002.
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NOVEMBER 05, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - IBM and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science introduced a supercomputer today that they hope will be the most powerful in Europe, and among the 10 most powerful in the world.
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The world's fastest commercial supercomputer is launched by the computer giant IBM.
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IBM used its Blue Gene supercomputer to model an improved transistor in its race with Intel to build faster chips.
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For three years running, the fastest supercomputer had been NEC&#39;s Earth Simulator in Japan. That was seen as a big challenge for the US computer industry.
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IBM has a new supercomputer which is currently world&#39;s fastest. The new Blue Gene/L is capable to do 36.01 teraflops. The ex world&#39;s fastest supercomputer, the Earth Simulator from NEC, is able to do 35.
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The US is poised to push Japan off the top of the supercomputing charts with an IBM prototype machine.
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The Motley Fool - IBM (NYSE: IBM - News) has new bragging rights. Press reports indicate that the technology giant has created the world's fastest supercomputer two years after a Japanese computer claimed that title.