NEC retakes supercomputer title
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In the international rivalry to create the fastest, most powerful supercomputer, Japan struck back at the United States. NEC Computers Inc.
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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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Although a victor won&#39;t be declared for two weeks yet, Silicon Graphics has become the second computer maker to boast that its machinery is leading a competition for world&#39;s fastest supercomputer.
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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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Hewlett-Packard Co. improved its standing on the latest list of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers, released Wednesday at a conference in Dresden.
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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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Computer manufacturer IBM has been given the go ahead to build the world's most powerful supercomputer.
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TOKYO NEC, Japan&#39;s biggest seller of personal computers, said Wednesday that it had developed the world&#39;s fastest supercomputer, with almost double the speed of International Business Machines&#39; fastest machine.
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IBM Corp. claimed unofficial bragging rights Tuesday as owner of the world's fastest supercomputer. For three years running, the fastest supercomputer has been NEC's Earth Simulator in Japan.
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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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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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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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An IBM-built supercomputer being assembled for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has attained a record 70.72 trillion computations per second, the Energy Department said Thursday.
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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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In a historic development in the computing world, IBM has succeeded in re-writing the rulebook for ultra-powerful computing by developing the worldâs most powerful supercomputer- Blue Gene/L supercomputer, surpassing NECâs Earth Simulator in Japan.
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Big Blue has brought the title of the world's fastest supercomputer back to the United States for the first time in three years.
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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.