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A 'supercomp' kept track of Games

Vikas — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:12:39 +0000

A clockwork machine hailed as the supercomputer of the ancient world provided a calendar for the Olympic Games and may have had a link with Archimedes, one of the greatest names in science, investigators...

Worlds fastest supercomputer runs Linux

Rob Jongschaap — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:52:46 +0000

IBM announced the completion of a one-petaflop supercomputer that runs Red Hat Linux. Twice as fast as the previous record-setter, the IBM Blue Gene, the Roadrunner uses a hybrid design that combines 6,948 dual-core AMD Opteron chips with 12,960...

Roadrunner creates new record in processing

Bhagaban — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:39:52 +0000

Roadrunner runs fast, very fast. The supercomputer has surpassed the quadrillion calculations record of IBM’s Bluegene/L processor by ensuring 1.026 quadrillion calculations per seconds. It is now world’s first high speed super computer used by...

Scientists Seek to Create 20 Million Processor Supercomputer

Dianne — Sun, 11 May 2008 22:06:03 +0000

Three U.S. government scientists are proposing to improve climate change predictions by creating a kind of super-supercomputer.

Ranger supercomputer, penultimate in computing

Surya — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:49:43 +0000

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) announced the second most capable Ultrafast system in today’s world, the ‘Ranger’ supercomputer which can handle 504 teraflops. It however does not match up to the record held by...

IBM ventures for laptop-sized energy efficient supercomputers

Madan — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:13:14 +0000

Pushing the limits of current photonic technology to the extreme, IBM announces the possibilities of putting a supercomputer into the size of a note-book. IBM for the same, will use an integrated ultra-compact nanophotonic circuits for...

How to construct a personal supercomputer?

Madan — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:34:10 +0000

If you can afford near about $5000, then gather some RISC processors, speedy system buses, high speed memory, motherboards and the most, eight 60 GB PS3s interlinked to form a cluster to make some 480 GB storage capacity and assemble them, if you...

Storm Worm Supercomputer - Certainly a 'virus' not a 'worm'

Piyush — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:01:53 +0000

Super computer builds virus: Let’s see if it can convince a human to swallow it...Storm Worm Botnet, one of the World’s biggest super computers has managed to create a virus. The researchers say the simulation is the first to capture a...

Most beautiful and Europe's largest supercomputer, in Gods abode

Piyush — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:51:42 +0000

A supercomputer installed in a Chapel. Does god need one? MareNostrum is the most powerful supercomputer in Europe. It was presented by IBM and Maria Jes�s San Segundo, the Spanish Minister of Education and Science. The supercomputer is used in...

NSF could hire IBM to build the world's fastest supercomputer

Jolly — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:32:40 +0000

The National Science Foundation might need IBMs services to build the world’s fastest supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The information was accidently...