Top supercomputer race continues with Nasa/SGI box
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Engineers at Nasa&#39;s Ames Research Center have staked their claim have built the world&#39;s fastest supercomputer. At a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Nasa&#39;s supercomputing facility, the US space agency unveiled its
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Virginia Tech's recently rebuilt Macintosh supercomputer flies past the 12-teraflop mark, but will the performance boost be enough to keep it in the supercomputer top 10? By Leander Kahney.
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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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IBM's (NYSE: IBM) Blue Gene/L, which is being installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, recaptured the supercomputer speed record that Silicon Graphics' (NYSE: SGI) Columbia system at NASA held for barely a week.
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IBM has assembled a 16,000-processor version of its BlueGene/L supercomputer, which on Sept. 16 edged out the Earth Simulator, built by IBM rival NEC, as the most powerful supercomputer on the planet.
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International Business Machines Corp (IBM) said it created the world&#39;s fastest supercomputer and is using it as the model for smaller, less costly systems due next year that can handle trillions of calculations a second.
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[Technology India]: London, Nov 8 : A new supercomputer being constructed by IBM has broken all supercomputing records after demonstrating double the power of the long-reigning supercomputing champion, NEC&#39;s Earth Simulator, based at Yokohama, Japan.
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When the Top500 list of the world's most powerful computers is published Monday, the 10,240 processor "Columbia" supercomputer that Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) recently built for NASA's (National Aeronautics and Space Administration's) Ames Research Center is expected to be the number-two system on the list. Columbia is a much-needed success for SGI, which has been struggling to reclaim customers lost during an ill-fated foray into the Windows market during the late 1990s. Since taking the reins of the company in 1999, Bob Bishop, an 18-year SGI veteran, has refocused SGI on its core technical markets, and bet the company's future on the three core technologies in its Altix line of servers: the Linux operating system, Intel Corp.'s Itanium processor architecture, and SGI's own NUMAflex system design. With NUMAflex, SGI has been able to scale Linux to unprecedented levels.
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Massively parallel processor to 'change the world', apparently
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SAN JOSE, Calif. Nov 4, 2004 - A $100 million supercomputer being built to analyze the nation&#39;s nuclear stockpile has again set an unofficial performance record the second in just over a month.
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Big Blue breaks into the quadrillion calculation range with new Blue Gene/P supercomputer.
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Virginia Tech&#39;s all-Mac System X supercomputer, installed at the university&#39;s Terascale Computing Facility, made headlines last year when it was determined to be the third-fastest supercomputer in the world.
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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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IBM said that its Blue Gene/L supercomputer trumps the performance of SGI&#39;s recently announced Columbia system installed at NASA by more than 65 percent.
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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 Linux-based Columbia is a top contender for the title of world's fastest supercomputer.
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MOFFETT FIELD, CALIFORNIA - The space race may be over, but engineers at NASA's (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's) Ames Research Center Tuesday staked their claim in another type of challenge: the never-ending contest to build the world's fastest supercomputer. At a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the NASA supercomputing facility in Moffett Field, California, the U.S. space agency unveiled its 10,240-processor Linux-based supercomputer, named Columbia, and cited benchmark numbers that show it performing faster than any other system.