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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.
Intel Expanding Motherboards For Business And HPC
Intel’s EPSD unit will grow its motherboard and chassis offerings and software capabilities in 2012
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
EU Builds Hybrid ARM-Based Supercomputer
The Mont Blanc Project's new low-power supercomputer in Barcelona will use Tegra and GPU chips
Japan Retains Supercomputer Lead With Fujitsu
Fujitsu’s K Computer helped Japan retain the supercomputing crown after it passed the 10 petaflop barrier
Fujitsu Preps 23.2 Petaflops Supercomputer Launch
Fujitsu is commercially entering the supercomputer sector with the launch of a 23.3 petaflops machine
Tech City Firms Get Intel Supercomputer
Intel will offer free supercomputing access to startups in London's Silicon Roundabout
IBM Watson Goes To School
IBM has taken its Watson computer to Harvard and MIT school to test students' skills
China Builds Supercomputer With Home-Grown Chips
China has constructed an energy-efficient supercomputer using its own processor technology
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
Airbus Buys Supercomputers In HP PODs
Airbus has doubled its high-performance computing power with HP's container-based data centres
First AMD ‘Bulldozer’ Opteron Server Chips Ship
The Opteron 6200 Interlagos chips offer 16 cores with improved energy efficiency over current 12-core chips
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
University Building Human Brain Model
The university of Manchester is working on a model of the human brain based on one million ARM processors
IBM Blue Gene Supercomputer Grabs Green Title
IBM’s Blue Gene/Q has topped the Green500 list as the most energy-efficient supercomputer
Japan Reclaims Supercomputing Crown
The computing arms race continues with the news that Japan now has the world's most powerful supercomputer
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
Watson Reigns Supreme In Jeopardy Showdown
IBM’s Watson computer proved it is more than a number-cruncher by beating humans at Jeopardy
Lessons Learnt As IBM’s Watson Wins At Jeopardy
The gameshow-playing supercomputer Watson trounced humans as it romped all over the Jeopardy board
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
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
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
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 universe
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
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 supercomputers