US heavyweights storm supercomputer league
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The US government&#39;s latest supercomputer, BlueGene/L, has been officially crowned the most powerful number cruncher on the planet.
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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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The US is poised to push Japan off the top of the supercomputing charts with an IBM prototype machine.
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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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Big Blue has brought the title of the worldâs fastest supercomputer back to the US for the first time in three years. IBMs still incomplete Blue Gene/L system has been officially named the fastest in the
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IBM&#39;s Blue Gene/L became the top contender to the supercomputing throne Thursday as Big Blue announced a new incarnation of the machine can perform 70.
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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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WELLINGTON, New Zealand  -- A supercomputer used to generate the special effects for the "Lord of the Rings" movie trilogy is turning to commerce, offering its power to commercial customers worldwide, backers said Thursday.    Ranked 80th among the world's top 500 powerful computers, it can perform 2.8 trillion calculations per second, said Eric Pilon, a spokesman for the New Zealand Supercomputing Center...
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AN IBM machine has reclaimed the title of world&#39;s fastest supercomputer, overtaking a Japanese model which caused shock waves within United States government agencies when it set a computing speed record in 2002.
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America has regained bragging rights to the world's most powerful supercomputer, after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus.
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As the SuperComputing 2004 show kicks off in the US city of Pittsburg this week, Linux technology will be well represented among the big honking processor, storage and networking technologies on display.
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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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A CALIFORNIAN company announced two different versions of cluster workstations which, it claims, will give supercomputer abilities for professionals who need to number crunch in a non-trivial way.
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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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For U.S. companies concerned about manufacturing work heading offshore, high-performance computing could offer a competitive edge.
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IBM's BlueGene/L remains king of the hill among supercomputers on the Top500 Supercomputing Sites list released today. But Hewlett-Packard Co. now claims the most computers on the list.
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European researchers can now turn to a new supercomputing network for help in their scientific endeavors. &quot;We have just completed testing,&quot; said David Henty with the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, a