NEC strikes blow in supercomputer battle
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The battle for supercomputing supremacy took a new twist on Tuesday when Japanese manufacturer NEC launched a new generation of computational building blocks that could be laced together to form the most powerful supercomputer in the world.
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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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IBM IBM.N, the world's biggest  computer maker, has regained its position at the head of the  Top 500 list of supercomputer installations, dislodging rival  NEC Corp. 6701.T of Japan, the company said on Monday.
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TOKYO: Shares in NEC Electronics Corp had their biggest fall since Oct 12 following a report that said Japan&#39;s third biggest chipmaker will miss its profit forecast as demand declines for semiconductors used in mobile phones and DVD recorders.
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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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IBM and Cray each get multimillion-dollar awards to keep working on completing supercomputers, but Sun is left out of the running.
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Beginning in December, NEC will rent out SX-8s for about $11,000 per month. The single-node model, with up to eight CPUs, has a peak performance of 128 gigaflops.
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IBM has claimed that its Blue Gene/L supercomputer has edged out rival NEC&#39;s Earth Simulator to become the world&#39;s most powerful supercomputer.
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IBM IBM.N said on Thursday its workhorse commercial computers have smashed the industry&#39;s most demanding tests, which analysts said creates a performance gap that could
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IBM has regained its position at the top of the Top500 Supercomputer Web site list, effectively ending NEC's nearly unchallenged three year reign. IBM's "BlueGene/L" has inched past NEC's Earth Simulator by a margin of 0.15 teraflops.
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Japanese electronics giant NEC Corp has begun selling the world&#39;s fastest supercomputer. NEC claimed its SX-8 is the most powerful &quot;vector-type&quot; supercomputer, with a sustainable
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The US is poised to push Japan off the top of the supercomputing chart with IBM&#39;s prototype Blue Gene/L machine. It is being assembled for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, a US Department of Energy lab (DOE).
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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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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.
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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 IBM.N 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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IBM IBM.N , the world&#39;s biggest computer maker, has regained its position at the head of the Top 500 list of supercomputer installations, dislodging rival NEC Corp.