IBM System Named Fastest Supercomputer
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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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The two-year reign of the massive Earth Simulator as the fastest supercomputer in the world appears to be nearing an end. IBM executives on Wednesday will announce that one of the new machines in its Blue
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[New York | Reuters News Service, 30 September 2004] - IBM said yesterday that it has developed the world&#39;s fastest computer, putting it back on top after a Japanese supercomputer claimed the title two years ago.
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An IBM machine has reclaimed the title of world&#39;s fastest supercomputer, overtaking a Japanese computer that had caused shock waves at US government agencies when it set a computing speed record in 2002.
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The Linux-based Columbia is a top contender for the title of world's fastest supercomputer.
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A Spanish supercomputer built by IBM has captured the world speed record for a machine using standard blade servers.
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IBM Corp. claimed unofficial bragging rights Tuesday as owner of the world's fastest supercomputer...
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IBM has reclaimed the title of world&#39;s fastest supercomputer, overtaking a Japanese computer that shocked the US government when it set a computing speed record in 2002.
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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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NEW YORK -- IBM Corp. claimed unofficial bragging rights Tuesday as owner of the world&#39;s fastest super- computer. For three years running, the fastest supercomputer has been NEC&#39;s Earth Simulator in Japan.
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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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Japanese electronics giant NEC Corp has begun selling the world&#39;s fastest supercomputer. NEC claimed its SX-8 is the most powerful &quot;vector-type&quot; supercomputer, with a sustainable
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IBM used its Blue Gene supercomputer to model an improved transistor in its race with Intel to build faster chips.
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NEW YORK - IBM Corp. claimed unofficial bragging rights Tuesday as owner of the world's fastest supercomputer...
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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.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM still operates the fastest supercomputer in the industry, but rival Hewlett-PackardÂ has more of them in operation, according to a closely watched global survey released Wednesday. HP has passed IBM in the number of supercomputers in operation and enjoys the largest market share, according to a list of the Top 500 supercomputers that was compiled by university computer researchers in the U.S. and Germany. ButÂ IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer, installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California,Â ranked first on the listÂ and IBM claims it is the market share leader when vendors are ranked by combined computing performance. The biannual list is being released Wednesday to coincide with the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany. HP grew its market share to 40.4 percent with 202 systems, while IBM's share fell to 38.4 percent with 192 systems. In the previous report in November 2006, IBM's share was 47.2 percent with 236 systems, to HP's 31.6 percent with 158 systems. IBM said it holds a 42 percent share of the supercomputer market when it's based on the combined processing power of each vendor's equipment. Its Blue Gene/L took the No. 1 spot with a "sustained performance" of 280.6 trillion operations per second, or teraflops. Flops is an acronym for "floating point operations per second," a measure of computing performance. On Tuesday IBM announced a new supercomputer, Blue Gene/P, which will have three times the processing power of the Blue Gene/L. A two-rack test model of the P made it into the top 30 on the list, achieving 20.86 teraflops (T flops), although IBM said that properly configured, the P may be able to hit 3 petaflops (P flops), or 1,000 trillion calculations per second. Sun Microsystems, which held only a 1.4 percent share with only seven systems deployed, is making a concerted effort to pursue the supercomputer market. Sun announced Tuesday it is building a supercomputer, codenamed "Constellation," which is designed to reach 1P flops. It is building Constellation at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin. Sun received $29.6 million of a total $59 million National Science Foundation grant to build Constellation, while the balance of $29.4 million will go towards operational costs, said Faith Singer, a TACC spokeswoman. The Top Five Supercomputer systems in the latest survey, their manufacturer, the number of processors and the user are as follows: 1. IBM, 131,072, US. Department of Energy-Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 2. IBM, 40,960, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. 3. IBM, 12,208 , DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 4. Silicon Graphics Inc., 10,160, NASA Ames Research Center. 5. Bull S.A., 8,704, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA) in France
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Ever since computer giant IBM announced earlier this week that they had developed the world&#39;s fastest computer, the whole nation seems to be abuzz about supercomputers.