IBM, Cray get supercomputer funds; Cray shares jump
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IBM  and supercomputer-maker  Cray Inc.  are being awarded a total of nearly $500  million by a Pentagon research agency for a supercomputer  project, and Cray shares rose 31 percent on Wednesday.
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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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BOSTON -- Because of a hiccup in its hardware unit, IBM Corp. stock took a hit even though the technology bellwether reported a 6 percent rise in earnings and exceeded Wall Street forecasts. Investors were also sorting out how much IBM is exposed to woes in the financial industry.
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The application server space is heating up once again as both IBM and BEA Systems tout new versions of their platforms. With its Liquid Computing strategy, San Jose, Calif.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- The latest results on the server market from research firm Gartner show IBM and Hewlett-Packard dueling for the top spots in terms of revenue and shipments.
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IBM--in a race with Intel--moves to make faster, smaller chips by building silicon transistors from a rare combination of metals.
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Sun left to think about what it's done Just in IBM and Cray have come out as the big winners in DARPA's massive supercomputing contest, leaving Sun Microsystems as the unlucky loser.â¦
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IBM has claimed unofficial bragging rights as owner of the worldâs fastest supercomputer. For three years running, the fastest supercomputer has been NECâs Earth Simulator in Japan.
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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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Market's 90-pound weakling beefs up Sun Microsystems is sick and tired of rolling over while the likes of IBM and Cray dominate the low margin, high profile world of super computers.â¦
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The National Science Foundation will fund projects that push computing power beyond silicon.
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IBM Corp. has announced it has built a supercomputer that surpasses the performance of the Earth Simulator in Yokohama, Japan, the computer widely regarded as the worldâs most powerful.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that the company will work with the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego on a substantial upgrade to the center's technical capabilities.
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For three years running, the fastest supercomputer had been NEC&#39;s Earth Simulator in Japan. That was seen as a big challenge for the US computer industry.
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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&#39;s five-year, $100 million Blue Gene project on Monday bore commercial fruit as the Armonk, NY-based computer maker announced it was offering the supercomputer to anyone who has at least $1.
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Venture capitalists are lavishing money on the fashionable Linux supercomputing concept--but smaller firms face much larger rivals.