What Makes a Supercomputer Super?
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Computer giant IBM announced this week that it has developed the world&#39;s fastest computer, putting it back on top after a Japanese supercomputer claimed the title some two years ago.
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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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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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Editor&#39;s Summary: At a supercomputing conference, Microsoft announced a new tool kit that will let developers create high-performance computing applications.
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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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The new supercomputer employs a cluster of 2,520 eServer BladeCenter JS20 systems running the Linux operating system and could be the first supercomputer to get a top 10 ranking using blade server technology.
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World's fastest supercomputer can now be yours for only $1.5 million. Machine combines exotic and mainstream technology.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced at the start of the annual SC supercomputing show Saturday that it will now offer commercial configurations of its Blue Gene supercomputer, just days after its prototype configuration, which has been built for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, took the high-performance computing crown with a speed of over 70 teraflops a second.
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Blue Gene/L, A supercomputer developed by IBM (IBM:NYSE - news - research) and the US Department of Energy, has clinched the title as the world&#39;s fastest, beating out a previously top-ranked computer from Japan&#39;s NEC.
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Forget the Earth Simulator and IBM&#39;s Blue Gene/L, Silicon Graphics (SGI) (Quote, Chart) is laying claim to the fastest supercomputer in the world.
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TOKYO, Japan -- Japanese electronics giant NEC Corp., said it has begun selling the worldâs fastest supercomputer. NEC claimed its SX-8 is the most powerful âvector-typeâ supercomputer, with a sustainable
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MacCentral - With performance almost double that of the Earth Simulator, in Yokohama, Japan, IBM Corp.'s Blue Gene/L on Monday was officially ranked first on the Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers. IBM built four of the top ten machines on the biannual list, which was set to be announced Monday evening at the SC2004 conference in Pittsburgh. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University reappeared on the list, finishing in seventh position five months after dropping off the June list because of a hardware upgrade to Apple Computer Inc.'s Xserve systems. ...
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MacCentral - Virginia Tech's all-Mac System X supercomputer, installed at the university's Terascale Computing Facility, made headlines last year when it was determined to be the third-fastest supercomputer in the world. System X has been upgraded to Apple Computer Inc.'s Xserve G5 server and now runs even faster, with a sustained speed of 12.25 trillion operations per second -- 19 percent faster than before.
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Setting up a battle for the future of computing, engineers from IBM, Sony and Toshiba unveiled details Monday of a microprocessor they claim has the muscle of a supercomputer and can power everything from video game consoles to business computers.
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IBM's Cell processor will power the next great supercomputer, commissioned by the US Dept. of Energy, but it will share the stage with AMD Opteron processors. The result will be the world's fastest computer ever built, reaching 1.6 trillion calculations per second.
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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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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.