Europe's most powerful supercomputer unveiled
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IBM and the Spanish government have introduced a new supercomputer they hope will be the most powerful in Europe, and one of the 10 most powerful in the world.
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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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Engineers at Nasa&#39;s Ames Research Center have staked their claim have built the world&#39;s fastest supercomputer. At a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Nasa&#39;s supercomputing facility, the US space agency unveiled its
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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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A new supercomputer named Columbia has claimed the title of world&#39;s fastest. The computer, built by Silicon Graphics for NASA at the Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, includes 10,240 Itanium
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A chip capable of more than a trillion calculations per second (teraflop) is unveiled by Intel.
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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.
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The AMD Opteron-based supercomputer achieves considerable energy savings over the university's current machine.
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IBM&#39;s still incomplete Blue Gene/L system being built in Rochester, Minnesota, has officially been named the fastest supercomputer in the world.
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IBM's Blue Gene/L was  named the fastest supercomputer in the world on Monday, pushing Japan off the top of the list.
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"Supercomputer on a chip" expected to power Sony's PlayStation 3.
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Kyoto University in Japan has ordered an AMD Opteron-based supercomputer that&#39;s not only powerful but achieves considerable energy savings over its current machine.The cluster will consist of 416 of Fujitsu&#39;s HX600 high-performance computers. Each of those machines is based on four quad-core Opteron processors so a total of 1,664 processors and 6,656 Opteron cores will be busy inside the machine, running applications such as scientific calculations, genomic information processing, computer graphics, and large archive searches.Alongside the main cluster will sit a symmetric multiprocessing cluster consisting of seven Sparc enterprise Unix servers, each based on Sparc64 processors, and with 1TB of memory.The theoretical peak performance of the computer will be 61.2T Flops (floating point operations per second), which would put it somewhere within the top 20 most powerful computers in the world if it was built today.It will be seven times as powerful as the supercomputer it will replace at Kyoto University, and advances in electronics in the last few years mean it will consume the same amount of power or -- put another way -- it will require only 15 percent of the watts per teraflop.Energy consumption is becoming an increasingly important issue as supercomputers become more powerful. Underlining this importance a new ranking of supercomputers was published in 2007 that looks at their energy efficiency.The Green 500 list was developed by two professors at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and the inaugural list put the IBM BlueGene/P system at the Daresbury Laboratory of the Science and Technology Facilities Council in the U.K. at the number one spot. The computer produces 357M Flops per watt.Fujitsu didn&#39;t release precise energy consumption figures for the computer to be installed at Kyoto University but said the entire machine would consume about 600 kilowatts of power. Based on the theoretical peak performance that works out to an energy efficiency of about 102M Flops per watt for the new computer.
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Silicon Graphics, Inc., of Mountain View, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Tuesday claimed NASA&#39;s new Intel Itanium 2 processor-based &quot;Columbia&quot; supercomputer is the most powerful computer in the world.
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IBM Corp. has announced it has built a supercomputer that surpasses the performance of the Earth Simulator in Yokohama, Japan, the computer widely regarded as the worldâs most powerful.
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Using low-power chips, parallel processing and innovative architecture, Orion Multisystems introduces personal supercomputers that can plug into a wall socket.
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Chipmaker's speedy Pentium 4 gets even faster.
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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.