Virgina Tech&#39;s &#39;System X&#39; Supercomputer Rebuilt for Speed
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As if being the fastest university supercomputer wasn&#39;t enough, Virginia Tech&#39;s Power Mac G5-based machine just got an upgrade to make it even faster.
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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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Systems will use 64-bit version of Intel's Xeon processor.
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Implemented using Texas Instruments&#39; 90 nanometer process technology, UltraSPARC IV+ will double the application throughput of the existing UltraSPARC IV through expanded caches and buffers, a better branch prediction mechanism, augmented prefetching
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Beleaguered server firm is working on a series of higher-performance processors it hopes will get profits back on track.
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Silicon Graphics Inc and Nasa can claim to have created the world&#39;s most powerful supercomputer with the installation of the new Linux and Intel Corp Itanium 2-based &#39;Columbia&#39; supercomputer.
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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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European researchers can now use a new supercomputing network to help them in their work. &quot;We have just completed testing,&quot; said David Henty with the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, a member
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HP's new server is based on Intel's Tigerton quad-core Xeon processor.
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The latest version of the server includes built-in virtualization technology.
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When the Hypersonic Missile Technology team at COLSA Corporation and the U.S. Army need to model hypersonic flight on a computer system, they&#146;ll no longer have to wait two months to get results. They now can use one of the world&#146;s largest and most powerful computers: a supercluster of 1,566 64-bit, dual-processor Apple Xserve G5 servers. [Sep 14]
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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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Researchers have built a prototype of a 'desktop supercomputer' that runs 100 times faster than today's PCs.
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European research institutes are  linking together four supercomputers to create the world's  fourth most powerful megacomputer, without having to spend the  money it would normally cost to build such a monster.
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A new computer should deliver about 10 times the performance of a desktop personal computer.
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MOFFETT FIELD, Calif.--Even as Silicon Graphics trumpeted on Tuesday a new speed record with its Columbia supercomputer built for NASA, CNET News.
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Massively parallel, 64-bit POWER-based processor to debut at ISSCC