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American supercomputer research center is hacked
The US Oak Ridge National Research Center this week (December 6) has announced it has suffered a sophisticated cyber attack within the past few weeks, causing thousands…
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IBM put supercomputer technology into microprocessors
Laptops that can achieve supercomputer performance are gradually becoming a reality. IBM is working to develop nanophotonic processor technology with higher data exchang…
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IBM created the world's fastest supercomputer
The latest IBM BlueGene / P supercomputers have surpassed the brother BlueGene / L to dominate the world's fastest supercomputing position and contribute to strengthenin…
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Supercomputer made up of 8 PS3 machines
Innovative technology toys like PS3, Xbox 360 don't just play games. At the University of North Carolina (USA), Dr. Frank Mueller used Sony's own gaming machines to crea…
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IBM's new generation supercomputer
The supercomputer, called Roadrunner, is expected to be located at Los Alamos State New Mexico State Laboratory. With a computational power of about 1 petaflop, equivale…
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IBM and Cray will design supercomputers for DARPA
Big Blue, Cray have overtaken Sun Microsystems to win government contracts worth $ 494 million to design a new generation of supercomputers.
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IBM BlueGene leads the Top 500 supercomputers
The number of supercomputers manufactured by IBM accounted for 47.8% of the world's 500 most powerful supercomputers, announced at Supercomputing 2006. Hewlett-Packard (…
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SX-8R: The world's fastest matrix supercomputer
Japan's NEC Corporation has launched the world new SX-8R supercomputer with a record matrix of 144 Teraflops (trillions per second).
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Race biotechnology with supercomputers
The two most powerful supercomputers in the world today are responsible for analyzing proteins instead of processing numbers. That's because life science, not physics, i…
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Use supercomputers to design Olympic swimsuits
This year, important sporting events like the Winter Olympics in Turin (Italy) or the 2006 World Cup in Germany have become
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IBM dominates the list of Top 500 supercomputers
IBM continues to dominate the list of the world's fastest supercomputers, accounting for 4 positions in the Top 10 supercomputers and more than half of the world's Top 5…
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Blue Gene / L supercomputer set a new record
IBM's Blue Gene / L supercomputer has added a new record, which processes data at 207.3 trillion calculations per second (207.3 teraflops).
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2 US representatives topped the list of the world's fastest supercomputers
America has regained its advantage in the race that seems to have no end.
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Supercomputer simulation ... the world's strongest human brain
Scientists in the UK have just introduced the world's largest