Rock reveals graphics benchmark beating monster laptop
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Scores almost 15,000 on 3DMark06, vendor claims UK gaming notebook specialist Rock has rolled out what it claims is its most powerful graphics offering yet: a quad-core machine with a pair of Nvidia GeForce 8800M GTX GPUs on board.â¦
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Company claims its new laptops feature the world's brightest screens.
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AMD's 55-nanometer ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 is the first graphics processor to break the teraflop barrier.
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New Silicon Graphics machine has a chance at giving Big Blue a run for the title.
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TechWeb - With a peak performance of 460 giga floating point operations per second, a single BladeCenter chassis of QS21s can achieve 6.4 TeraFLOPS, IBM claims.
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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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WELLINGTON, New Zealand  -- A supercomputer used to generate the special effects for the "Lord of the Rings" movie trilogy is turning to commerce, offering its power to commercial customers worldwide, backers said Thursday.    Ranked 80th among the world's top 500 powerful computers, it can perform 2.8 trillion calculations per second, said Eric Pilon, a spokesman for the New Zealand Supercomputing Center...
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AMD's 8000 series in the wild UK PC supplier Mesh has jumped the gun on AMD's official announcement and begun offering desktops based on the chip maker's three-core Phenom 8000-series processors.â¦
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Apple has unveiled what it claims is its fastest ever iBook G4 laptop, a $1,499 1.33GHz PowerPC G4 processor-based device sporting a 14in screen and a DVD burner drive.
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IBM Corp. claimed unofficial bragging rights Tuesday as owner of the world's fastest supercomputer. For three years running, the fastest supercomputer has been NEC's Earth Simulator in Japan.
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Computer maker evolves from its "Jurassic" era with a Linux-based machine. NASA gives it a thumbs-up.
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A new company thinks it has the answer to the complaints of scientists and engineers looking for high-performance computing (HPC) on the desktop. The Orion Cluster Workstation packs the power of a PC cluster into a desktop-size package using low-power chips and an innovative motherboard design.
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PC World&#39;s first tests of NVidia&#39;s just announced high-end mobile graphics chip, the GeForce Go 6800, show that it is one of the first notebook graphics components to support performance rivaling that of desktop boards.
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The Apple-based System X supercomputer at Virginia Tech has been upgraded to run at 12.25 teraflops. The system placed third on the list of the world&#39;s most powerful supercomputers last
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A MAN WHO made money making rock music a long time ago has recorded a long playing record using a dual Opteron workstation. AMD said that Mark Knopfler,a hack
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A new computer should deliver about 10 times the performance of a desktop personal computer.
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36.01 Teraflops. Yeah, that&#39;ll just about do it. What &quot;it&quot; is, I don&#39;t know, but I&#39;m sure the well dressed geeks at IBM are blue with pride after their BlueGene/L computer surpassed the speed of NEC&#39;s Earth Simulator.