supercomputer news

A research team at National Taiwan University (NTU) is achieving breakthrough results in learning about the early evolution of the universe by harnessing NVIDIA® Tesla™ parallel processors -- which provide the computational horsepower of an IBM BlueGene/L supercomputer, at just 1% the cost and 10% the power consumption.

Researchers at a new European Intel lab will explore computers with a thousand times the performance of today’s fastest supercomputers.

Intel Corporation and NEC Corporation today have agreed to jointly develop High Performance Computing (HPC) system technologies that will push the boundaries of supercomputing performance.

Betas of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 and distributed Microsoft Office Excel 2010 for the cluster available for download, delivering increased performance and productivity.

Appro, a leading provider of supercomputing solutions, today announces that it will support AMD’s upcoming server platform, currently codenamed “Maranello,” which is scheduled for availability in Q1 2010.

Oak Ridge Supercomputer Targets NVIDIA GPU Computing Technology to Achieve Order of Magnitude Performance Over Today’s Fastest Supercomputer

President Obama recognized IBM (NYSE: IBM) and its Blue Gene family of supercomputers with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the country's most prestigious award given to leading innovators for technological achievement.

Fujitsu today announced that it has recently completed the deployment of a new supercomputer for Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, known as RIKEN. The system began operations in August.

IBM Dominates Green500; 90 percent of Top20 Energy Efficient Supercomputers Made by IBM, Staggering 57 Percent of Top100 from IBM

IBM iDataPlex System to predict future risks such as accelerating decrease in Arctic sea ice; regional climate change for Province of Ontario and Great Lakes watershed region

IBM iDataPlex System to Become Scientific Workhorse

System will process up to 360 trillion calculations per second, store 60 times more data than the Library of Congress Web archive, and be housed in an ultra energy-efficient data centre.

Massively parallel system will require only 15% the watts per teraflop of the current system

The Hormel Institute, a medical research unit of the University of Minnesota, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the Institute will become the first research laboratory in the state to employ the world's most powerful supercomputer design, the IBM Blue Gene.

The world's most powerful line of supercomputers -- IBM's (NYSE: IBM) Blue Gene family -- is by far the most energy-efficient, according to a new ranking of the TOP500 computers.

NEC Corporation announced today that it has received an order from the Information Synergy Organization's Information Synergy Center at Japan's Tohoku University for a large-scale computer system consisting of 16 nodes of NEC's SX-9 vector supercomputer, the latest in the SX Series.

Today the National Science Board (NSB) approved a resolution authorizing the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund the acquisition and deployment of the world's most powerful "leadership-class" supercomputer, proposed in response to NSF's "Track 1" supercomputing solicitation.