IBM Supercomputer Again Claims Record
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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.
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Technology giant IBM will announce today that it has built the world&#39;s most powerful supercomputer, surpassing the performance of a machine in Yokohama, Japan.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM still operates the fastest supercomputer in the industry, but rival Hewlett-PackardÂ has more of them in operation, according to a closely watched global survey released Wednesday. HP has passed IBM in the number of supercomputers in operation and enjoys the largest market share, according to a list of the Top 500 supercomputers that was compiled by university computer researchers in the U.S. and Germany. ButÂ IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer, installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California,Â ranked first on the listÂ and IBM claims it is the market share leader when vendors are ranked by combined computing performance. The biannual list is being released Wednesday to coincide with the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany. HP grew its market share to 40.4 percent with 202 systems, while IBM's share fell to 38.4 percent with 192 systems. In the previous report in November 2006, IBM's share was 47.2 percent with 236 systems, to HP's 31.6 percent with 158 systems. IBM said it holds a 42 percent share of the supercomputer market when it's based on the combined processing power of each vendor's equipment. Its Blue Gene/L took the No. 1 spot with a "sustained performance" of 280.6 trillion operations per second, or teraflops. Flops is an acronym for "floating point operations per second," a measure of computing performance. On Tuesday IBM announced a new supercomputer, Blue Gene/P, which will have three times the processing power of the Blue Gene/L. A two-rack test model of the P made it into the top 30 on the list, achieving 20.86 teraflops (T flops), although IBM said that properly configured, the P may be able to hit 3 petaflops (P flops), or 1,000 trillion calculations per second. Sun Microsystems, which held only a 1.4 percent share with only seven systems deployed, is making a concerted effort to pursue the supercomputer market. Sun announced Tuesday it is building a supercomputer, codenamed "Constellation," which is designed to reach 1P flops. It is building Constellation at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin. Sun received $29.6 million of a total $59 million National Science Foundation grant to build Constellation, while the balance of $29.4 million will go towards operational costs, said Faith Singer, a TACC spokeswoman. The Top Five Supercomputer systems in the latest survey, their manufacturer, the number of processors and the user are as follows: 1. IBM, 131,072, US. Department of Energy-Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 2. IBM, 40,960, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. 3. IBM, 12,208 , DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 4. Silicon Graphics Inc., 10,160, NASA Ames Research Center. 5. Bull S.A., 8,704, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA) in France
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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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MacCentral - 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. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University reappeared on the list, finishing in seventh position five months after dropping off the June list because of a hardware upgrade to Apple Computer Inc.'s Xserve systems. ...
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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.
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Forget the Earth Simulator and IBM&#39;s Blue Gene/L, Silicon Graphics (SGI) (Quote, Chart) is laying claim to the fastest supercomputer in the world.
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Washington: The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that a supercomputer developed for the nation&#39;s nuclear Stockpile Stewardship Program has attained a record-breaking performance of 70.
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NEW YORK, Sep 30, 2004 (Kyodo via COMTEX) -- International Business Machines Corp. has developed the world&#39;s fastest supercomputer, US media reported Wednesday.
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They set a world record and helped power a cluster of 648 CPUs.
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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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A Spanish supercomputer built by IBM has captured the world speed record for a machine using standard blade servers.
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US Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham announced that a supercomputer developed for the nation&#39;s Stockpile Stewardship Program has attained a record breaking performance of 70.
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IBM  will build a  next-generation supercomputer for the U.S. Energy Department  with the potential to achieve a sustained speed of 1,000  trillion calculations per second, or one petaflop, the  department said on Wednesday.
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International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) is offering its record holding supercomputer for sale to interested consumers. The company will offer IBM eServer Blue Gene supercomputer for sale to research laboratories for optimal causes.
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Ever since computer giant IBM announced earlier this week that they had developed the world&#39;s fastest computer, the whole nation seems to be abuzz about supercomputers.
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IBM has brought the title of the world&#39;s fastest supercomputer back to the United States for the first time in three years... IBM&#39;s still incomplete Blue Gene/L system was officially named the fastest in the