SGI and Nasa Claim Supercomputer World Record
449244
Silicon Graphics Inc and Nasa can claim to have created the world&#39;s most powerful supercomputer with the installation of the new Linux and Intel Corp Itanium 2-based &#39;Columbia&#39; supercomputer.
702212
MOFFETT FIELD, CALIFORNIA - The space race may be over, but engineers at NASA's (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's) Ames Research Center Tuesday staked their claim in another type of challenge: the never-ending contest to build the world's fastest supercomputer. At a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the NASA supercomputing facility in Moffett Field, California, the U.S. space agency unveiled its 10,240-processor Linux-based supercomputer, named Columbia, and cited benchmark numbers that show it performing faster than any other system.
413796
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.
561455
IBM has reclaimed the title of world&#39;s fastest supercomputer, overtaking a Japanese computer that shocked the US government when it set a computing speed record in 2002.
20407
IBM&#39;s Blue Gene/L became the top contender to the supercomputing throne Thursday as Big Blue announced a new incarnation of the machine can perform 70.
242120
US space agency NASA unveiled a new computer yesterday that its creators claim is the fastest in the world. Project Columbia, named for the space shuttle that was destroyed early last year, cost $US50million
332003
A partially assembled prototype of a new IBM supercomputer set a record of 70.72 trillion transactions per second earlier this week.
455956
IBM Corp. claimed unofficial bragging rights Tuesday as owner of the world&#39;s fastest supercomputer. For three years running, the fastest supercomputer has been NEC&#39;s Earth Simulator in Japan.
706368
Blue Gene L leads the group followed by SGI&#39;s NASA installation and NEC&#39;s Earth Simulator Center in the third position. NEW YORK: IBM, the world&#39;s biggest computer maker, has regained its position at the head
258069
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.
593749
IBM (Quote, Chart) secured the top spot in the rankings for world&#39;s fastest supercomputer as Blue Gene/L ran at a sustained speed of 36.
726945
With performance almost double that of the Earth Simulator, in Yokohama, Japan, IBM Corp.'s Blue Gene/L on Monday was officially ranked first on the Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers. IBM built four of the top ten machines on the biannual list, which was set to be announced Monday evening at the SC2004 conference in Pittsburgh.
736649
In one corner, representing Sun Microsystems, is Ranger, which might become the fastest supercomputer ever to be built. Ranger will go online by the end of this year in the most appropriate state for superlatives, Texas.
565474
&quot;SGI is pushing the limits of how many processors can run on a single version of Linux,&quot; says IDC&#39;s Dan Kusnetzky. &quot;The intersection of these different technologies makes it much easier to
495201
A $US100 million ($A130 million) supercomputer being built to analyse the US nuclear stockpile has again set an unofficial performance record - the second in just over a month.
514684
Scientists at CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), AMD, Cisco, Microsoft Research, Newisys, and S2IO have successfully tested a new internet2 land-speed record.
561990
A $100 million supercomputer being built to analyze the nation's nuclear stockpile has again set an unofficial performance record - the second in just over a month.