Teraflop topping IBM supercomputer being assembled
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The IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer is currently being assembled for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Livermore plans to buy a unit four times the current supercomputerâs size, according to eBCVG.
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NVidia today may have launched the stand-alone GPU-centric computer business all by its lonesome, with today's announcement of a kind of computer system specifically designed to mesh graphics processors together to perform rich math functions.  Its goal is to enter teraflop territory with a 1U server unit.
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SGI's supercomputer sets a public record which has been eclipsed by a faster result yet to be announced.
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Virginia Tech announced that its Apple-based System X supercomputer has been rebuilt for speed and now operates at 12.25 teraflops.
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Chipmaker looks beyond upcoming quad-core tech to a "teraflop" processor with 80 cores. Also: Steeley chip to cut UMPC prices.
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The BlueGene/L supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory topped the list of the world&#39;s fastest computers once again, according to the new Top500 list released Wednesday. Built by IBM, BlueGene/L clocks in at 280.6 teraflops, or 280.6 trillion floating point operations per second.
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What may be the world's largest supercomputer is being built at the Texas Advanced Computing Center with AMD's Barcelona chips.
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NEC Corporation has announced the worldwide launch and availability of the SX series model &quot;SX-8,&quot; the world&#39;s most powerful vector supercomputer with a peak processing performance of a whopping 65 TFLOPS (trillion floating point operations per second).
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The project will tap into the power of home PCs to create a virtul supercomputer. By Paul McDougall. As part of a broader effort to spur collaborative research in key industries, IBM on Tuesday launched a project
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IBM Corp. plans to announce today that it has built the world&#39;s fastest supercomputer at one of its facilities in Rochester, Minn.
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IBM yesterday announced that a prototype supercomputer had surpassed the computing power of the NEC Earth Simulator in Japan, currently the world&#39;s most powerful machine.
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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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IBM (NYSE: IBM) has been selected to build a next-generation supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), officials with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today.
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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.
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NEC&#160;is selling what it says is the fastest vector supercomputer in the world. The SX-9 is based on a new processor developed by the Tokyo company that boasts a performance of over 100G Flops (floating point operations per second). Up to 16 of the chips can be fitted into a single node and up to 512 nodes can be built together to create what would likely be one of the most powerful computers in the world -- a computer with a theoretical peak processing power of 839T Flops (teraflops).NEC hasn&#39;t benchmarked the machine yet but estimates it would achieve a Linpack score of around 700T Flops, said Hiroshi Takahara, senior director of NEC&#39;s HPC marketing division. That&#39;s more than double the current fastest supercomputer in the world, the&#160;IBM BlueGene/L machine&#160;at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.The new machine, launched Thursday, is much more powerful than NEC&#39;s SX-8R, which it succeeds. To get the same processing power in one SX-9 node would require 13 SX-8R nodes so the new computer takes up 3.9 times less floor space and uses 3.6 times less electricity for the same power.Vector supercomputers are typically used in scientific applications and where large amounts of data needs to be processed. NEC has had some success selling previous systems to meteorological agencies in several nations and to universities, automakers and aerospace laboratories.The SX-9 is aimed at the same type of customer and will be offered on lease with prices starting at &#165;2.98 million ($26,000) per month for the entry-level system. NEC aims to sell about 700 systems over the next three years and already has its first users. Meteo France and Osaka University are among the first customers, said Takahara.With the new supercomputer NEC will again be challenging large U.S. computer makers like IBM and Cray. Five years ago the NEC-built Earth Simulator was ranked the world&#39;s fastest supercomputer but that machine was surpassed by an IBM computer and has dropped to 20th position in the current Top 500 supercomputer ranking.The SX-9, should a large configuration model be built, will have a good chance of restoring NEC&#39;s name back into the top positions of the influential ranking.The Japanese government is pushing to get the country back on top of the supercomputer ranking. It has awarded contracts to NEC, Fujitsu, and Hitachi&#160;for the design and construction of a 10P Flops (petaflops) supercomputer that is expected to be the world&#39;s fastest when it is completed in 2012.The machine will be built in Kobe in western Japan and operated by public research institute Riken. It will be mixed architecture with NEC and Hitachi designing the vector side and Fujitsu the scalar side. A budget of about &#165;115 billion ($1 billion) has been earmarked for the project.
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Sun Microsystems announced this morning it has developed an architecture for supercomputing which, as soon as the fourth quarter of this year, will drive a data cluster capable of a sustained processing rate of 1.7 petaflops.  That's six times faster than the machine perched atop the most recent Top 500 supercomputers list today...and IBM has already reacted.
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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.