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IBM Makes Blue Gene/Q Official

Big Blue's 100 petaflop Blue Gene is also green, giving two gigaflops per Watt.

13 years ago

Intel Expanding Motherboards For Business And HPC

Intel’s EPSD unit will grow its motherboard and chassis offerings and software capabilities in 2012

13 years ago

New AMD Chips, Nvidia GPUs In Cray Supercomputer

Cray's £118m Blue Waters machine will use new XK6 blades based on AMD and Nvidia technology

13 years ago

EU Builds Hybrid ARM-Based Supercomputer

The Mont Blanc Project's new low-power supercomputer in Barcelona will use Tegra and GPU chips

13 years ago

Japan Retains Supercomputer Lead With Fujitsu

Fujitsu’s K Computer helped Japan retain the supercomputing crown after it passed the 10 petaflop barrier

13 years ago

Fujitsu Preps 23.2 Petaflops Supercomputer Launch

Fujitsu is commercially entering the supercomputer sector with the launch of a 23.3 petaflops machine

13 years ago

Tech City Firms Get Intel Supercomputer

Intel will offer free supercomputing access to startups in London's Silicon Roundabout

13 years ago

IBM Watson Goes To School

IBM has taken its Watson computer to Harvard and MIT school to test students' skills

13 years ago

China Builds Supercomputer With Home-Grown Chips

China has constructed an energy-efficient supercomputer using its own processor technology

13 years ago

AMD And Nvidia Chips Upgrade Cray Supercomputer

Cray's Jaguar supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab will run faster with AMD Opterons and Nvidia GPUs

13 years ago

Airbus Buys Supercomputers In HP PODs

Airbus has doubled its high-performance computing power with HP's container-based data centres

13 years ago

First AMD ‘Bulldozer’ Opteron Server Chips Ship

The Opteron 6200 Interlagos chips offer 16 cores with improved energy efficiency over current 12-core chips

13 years ago

IBM US Pulls Plug On Federal Supercomputer Project

IBM is pulling out a project to build the world's fastest supercomputer because of rising costs and complexity

13 years ago

University Building Human Brain Model

The university of Manchester is working on a model of the human brain based on one million ARM processors

13 years ago

IBM Blue Gene Supercomputer Grabs Green Title

IBM’s Blue Gene/Q has topped the Green500 list as the most energy-efficient supercomputer

13 years ago

Japan Reclaims Supercomputing Crown

The computing arms race continues with the news that Japan now has the world's most powerful supercomputer

13 years ago

AMD, Nvidia Chips To Feature In Cray Supercomputer

AMD’s 16-core 'Interlagos' Opteron chip and Nvidia’s Tesla 20-Series GPU will feature in Cray’s XK6 supercomputer

14 years ago

Watson Reigns Supreme In Jeopardy Showdown

IBM’s Watson computer proved it is more than a number-cruncher by beating humans at Jeopardy

14 years ago

Lessons Learnt As IBM’s Watson Wins At Jeopardy

The gameshow-playing supercomputer Watson trounced humans as it romped all over the Jeopardy board

14 years ago

IBM Launches Next-Generation Blue Gene Supercomputer

The US Department of Energy is to use IBM's next-generation supercomputer to design electric car batteries and study climate change

14 years ago

IBM Xeon-Based Supercomputer To Hit Three Petaflops

SuperMUC, to be built for German researchers, will use hot-water cooling to cut power use by 40 percent

14 years ago

China Makes World’s Fastest Supercomputer With Nvidia GPUs

The Tianhe-1A supercomputer in Tianjin uses 7,168 Nvidia Tesla M2050 GPUs and 14,336 CPUs

14 years ago

Hawking Team Uses Supercomputer To Explore Space

COSMOS is using one of the world's fastest supercomputers to analyse its data and research into the origins of the…

14 years ago

IBM Uses Hot Water To Cool Zurich Supercomputer

An IBM water-cooled supercomputer at a Swiss University is heating nearby buildings with its waste heat

14 years ago

China Touts Supercomputing Credentials

China is touting its superpower credentials in the field of supercomputers, boasting of two of the world's top ten fastest…

14 years ago