NASA claims supercomputing crown
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SAN JOSE, CALIF. - The US space agency unveiled a new computer Tuesday that it says is the fastest in the world. Project Columbia, named after the space shuttle that was destroyed early last year, is a cluster of 20 computers linked to work as one.
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The Earth Simulator, an NEC supercomputer, is surpassed, at last. IBM announced yesterday that its Blue Gene/L supercomputer had achieved a sustained performance of 36.
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European researchers can now turn to a new supercomputing network for help in their scientific endeavors. &quot;We have just completed testing,&quot; said David Henty with the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, a
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[Technology India]: London, Nov 8 : A new supercomputer being constructed by IBM has broken all supercomputing records after demonstrating double the power of the long-reigning supercomputing champion, NEC&#39;s Earth Simulator, based at Yokohama, Japan.
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Sun Microsystems and the University of Texas at Austin are set to flip the switch on a unique supercomputer that will vastly speed up massive data analysis and visualisation to tackle time-critical problems such as weather
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NASA researchers have teamed up with a pair of Silicon Valley firms to build    a supercomputer that ranks alongside the world's largest Linux-based systems.
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An IBM-built supercomputer being assembled for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has attained a record 70.72 trillion computations per second, the Energy Department said Thursday.
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The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is getting ready to do some serious number crunching at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The NNSA recently selected IBM to construct the world's first supercomputer using Cell Broadband Engine (B.E.) processors that can perform a mind-boggling 1,000 trillion calculations per second, or one petaflop.
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Researchers hope a new supercomputer will help develop life-saving drugs and model climate change.
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US-based IBM claimed on Wednesday it is going to return to the US the title of supercomputer maker. Earlier, the world was hit by the news that Japanâs Earth Simulator is the new supercomputer maker.
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DRESDEN, Germany  - Supercomputing, once the  preserve of top scientific and academic institutions which  needed entire rooms to house their gigantic machines, can now  be had out of a box from Microsoft  for $50,000.
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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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AN IBM machine has reclaimed the title of world&#39;s fastest supercomputer, overtaking a Japanese model which caused shock waves within United States government agencies when it set a computing speed record in 2002.
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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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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.
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IBM announced today that an IBM BlueGene/L supercomputer has surpassed NEC&#39;s Earth Simulator in Japan to become the world&#39;s most powerful supercomputer.
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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.