NEC Tops IBM with Speedier Supercomputer
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NEC (Nasdaq: NIPNY) continues to play "can you top this" with IBM (NYSE: IBM), as the Japanese company claims that its latest supercomputer is faster than the ultra high-performance machine rolled out less than a month ago by Big Blue.
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The Earth Simulator, an NEC supercomputer, is surpassed, at last. IBM announced yesterday that its Blue Gene/L supercomputer had achieved a sustained performance of 36.
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IBM (Quote, Chart) secured the top spot in the rankings for world&#39;s fastest supercomputer as Blue Gene/L ran at a sustained speed of 36.
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International Business Machines Corp. has assembled the world&#39;s most powerful computer, unseating Japan&#39;s NEC Corp. after more than two years, according to an industry ranking.
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IBM&#39;S Blue Gene supercomputer, which is still being installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has set an unofficial performance record.
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The fastest Mac supercomputer has gotten faster, thanks to an Xserve makeover.
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With performance almost double that of the Earth Simulator, in Yokohama, Japan, IBM&#39;s Blue Gene/L on Monday was officially ranked first on the Top500 list of the world&#39;s fastest supercomputers.
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US supercomputers once again are the fastest in the world, ending an uneasy 2 1/2 year period when a Japanese computer far outranked all competitors.
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A supercomputer being built by IBM for the US Department of Energy (DOE) has topped a list of the world&#39;s fastest computers. The Blue Gene/L beta-system can perform 70,720 billion calculations per second, which
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InfoWorld - IBM still operates the fastest supercomputer in the industry, but rival Hewlett-Packard&#160;has more of them in operation, according to a closely watched global survey released Wednesday.
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IBM&#39;S Big Blue has helped the US reclaim the title of the world&#39;s fastest supercomputer for the first time in three years.
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An I.B.M. machine has reclaimed the title of fastest supercomputer, overtaking a Japanese computer that had caused shock waves at United States government agencies when it set a computing speed record in 2002.
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&quot;The fact that non-US vendor like NEC had the fastest computer was seen as a big challenge for US computer industry,&quot; said Horst Simon, director of the supercomputing centre at Lawrence Berkeley Labs in California.
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As expected, IBM took over the top slot on the Top500 supercomputing list with a BlueGene/L system that shatters previous Linpack benchmarks at 70.
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IBM Corp. plans to announce today that it has built the world's fastest supercomputer at one of its facilities in Rochester, Minn., wresting the title from a system in Japan.
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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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International Business Machines Corp. on Wednesday said it has developed the world's fastest computer, putting it back on top after a Japanese supercomputer claimed the title some two years ago.