NASA-SGI Supercomputer Tops in Speed and Research
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&quot;It&#39;s one hell of a system,&quot; said Columbia project manager Bill Thigpen, who told TechNewsWorld the system is being submitted for a top spot on the upcoming Top500 Supercomputer list due next month.
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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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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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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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An IBM supercomputer still under development has set an unofficial new world speed record during testing, the company announced on Wednesday.
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The United States grabbed top honors in the race for the world&#39;s fastest supercomputer, beating out the Japanese computer that has held the title for more than two years.
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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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The world's fastest commercial supercomputer is launched by the computer giant IBM.
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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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NEC has unveiled its latest supercomputer, which is almost twice as fast as the BlueGene/L machine rolled out by IBM in September.
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The AMD Opteron-based supercomputer achieves considerable energy savings over the university's current machine.
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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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The Unites States space agency NASA has unveiled the world&#39;s fastest supercomputer at its Ames Research Centre in California, where India-born astronaut Kalpana Chawla worked for years, in honour of the seven crew members of spacecraft Columbia which
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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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By Olivia Winslow, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Jun. 15--Stony Brook University today will unveil what school officials say is one of the five most powerful supercomputers in the world dedicated to general research.
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IBM&#39;s Blue Gene/L supercomputer has recaptured the speed record briefly held by Silicon Graphics Columbia system. Blue Gene/L, which is being installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, hit 70.
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The supercomputer, Blue Gene/L, is faster than NEC Corp.&#39;s Earth Simulator, which had been the world&#39;s fastest with its ability to sustain speeds of 35.