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BusinessWeek
June 7, 2004
Port & Tashiro |
Supercomputing The race is on. Superfast computers are essential to high-level scientific research. Can the U.S. recapture the lead from Japan?   |
BusinessWeek
June 6, 2005
Otis Port |
Mighty Morphing Power Processors IBM and others are racing to create chameleon chips that change to suit the job. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2005
Erico Guizzo |
IBM Reclaims Supercomputer Lead The new breed of supercomputers brings technology advances that may ultimately trickle down to a variety of high-performance computers, thus benefiting not only big-bucks buyers like the Energy Department and NASA but many other organizations in need of serious computing horsepower. |
InternetNews
November 12, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
IBM Still Dominates Supercomputer List The TOP500 Supercomputer list is out and once again, IBM has bragging rights. Big Blue not only tops the list, it pretty much owns it. |
BusinessWeek
January 17, 2005
Otis Port |
Holy Screaming Teraflops After more than two years of playing second fiddle to Japan in supercomputers, the U.S. has clawed its way back to the head of the pack. IBM's Blue Gene is the world's fastest supercomputer, for now. |
InternetNews
June 21, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
Supercomputer Champ Remains (For Now) Japan's NEC still sits atop the annual list of machines with processing powers greater than 1 teraflop, whatever that is. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2011
Peter Kogge |
Next-Generation Supercomputers Supercomputers are now running our search engines and social networks. But the heady days of stunning performance increases are over |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2009
Guizzo & Santo |
The Runners-up: More Earthshaking Chips These 13 great little chips didn't make our list -- mainly because we ran out of space in print. And, well, one isn't even a chip |
InternetNews
March 26, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
IBM Gives Networking A 16x Boost IBM researchers have come up with an optical networking chip measuring 3mm by 5mm but has 16 times the throughput of today's networking chips. |
The Motley Fool
March 5, 2010
Anders Bylund |
IBM: Reinventing the Wheel at the Speed of Light Big Blue keeps finding ways to keep microprocessors improving beyond every conceivable limit. |
BusinessWeek
February 14, 2005
Steve Hamm |
IBM Discovers the Power of One Its focus on a single chip line makes it a contender in almost every market. |
InternetNews
June 22, 2005
Clint Boulton |
IBM's Blue Gene Tops Supercomputer List Six of the top 10 world's fastest supercomputers are made by IBM. Intel chips and clusters are the top architectures. |
InternetNews
November 17, 2008
Andy Patrizio |
AMD, HP Nab Wins in Supercomputer Rankings While AMD gets the top spots and HP surpasses IBM as the largest hardware provider, Intel continues to dominate the latest TOP500 list. |
InternetNews
November 22, 2006
Clint Boulton |
National Security Brings The Big Bucks The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded IBM and Cray roughly $500 million Tuesday to develop supercomputers that run advanced computations at unprecedented speed and performance for national security. |
InternetNews
June 23, 2009
Andy Patrizio |
Top 500: Good Show for Nehalem, Germany, Arabia The TOP500 list of supercomputers is always a big deal in the never-ending quest for bragging rights among hardware vendors. For this latest list, the 33rd, Intel scored a big win. |
InternetNews
June 26, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
Cranking Up Supercomputing The annual supercomputing show will highlight performance improvements on every level, right down to the wires. |
InternetNews
February 3, 2009
Andy Patrizio |
IBM Plans 20-Fold Leap in Supercomputing Sequoia will be the same size as IBM's Blue Gene/L but 40 times as powerful. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2010
Schow et al. |
Get on the Optical Bus IBM's light-powered links overcome the greatest speed bump in supercomputing: interconnect bandwidth |
InternetNews
April 12, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
IBM Cures CPU Sprawl With 3D Stacking Instead of spreading out the circuits, IBM researchers say they've found a way to stack them up. |
InternetNews
June 27, 2007
Stuart J. Johnston |
IBM Dominates Supercomputer List - Again Today, at the International Supercomputing Conference 2007 in Dresden, Germany, the Top500 group announced its latest list of the top 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world. |
InternetNews
September 29, 2004
Clint Boulton |
IBM's Blue Gene Claims Fastest Supercomputer Big Blue boasts the world's fastest supercomputer, soundly topping NEC's Earth Simulator in a Linpack test. |
InternetNews
November 4, 2004 |
DoE, IBM Supercomputer Shatters LINPACK Test The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Thursday said that a BlueGene/L supercomputer built by IBM for nuclear arms research runs at a record 70.72 teraflops, making it the fastest computer on the LINPACK benchmark test. |
BusinessWeek
June 17, 2010
Bruce Einhorn |
China: Dawning's Plans for Its Loongson Chip Dawning wants its new super-fast chip to help China speed up its use of domestic chips in supercomputers, and ultimately to sell more to other companies. |
The Motley Fool
May 3, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
IBM Minds the Airgap Customers should enjoy the tech firm's latest nanotechnology advance. Investors, take note. |
InternetNews
March 21, 2006
David Needle |
Cray Looks to Adaptive Supercomputing Cray said it plans to take high performance computing to a higher level via adaptive supercomputing by developing supercomputers that integrate a range of processing technologies in a single platform. |
InternetNews
July 28, 2004
Clint Boulton |
SGI Aims High with NASA Deal SGI's Space Exploration Simulator supercomputer is one of the largest Linux systems ever assembled, with 10,240 Intel Itanium processors. |
InternetNews
November 8, 2004
Clint Boulton |
IBM Sits Atop Supercomputer List As expected, IBM took over the top slot on the Top500 supercomputing list with a BlueGene/L system that shatters previous Linpack benchmarks at 70.7 trillion floating points per second (teraflops). |
Bio-IT World
October 14, 2004
William Pulleyblank |
Rewriting the Rulebook for Supercomputing and Research IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer project leader highlights progress and future applications. |
The Motley Fool
December 2, 2010
Carl Bagh |
IBM Unveils New Chip; Heats Up Supercomputer Battle IBM raises the bar again. |
InternetNews
May 3, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
IBM Introduces The Self-Assembling Chip IBM's chip researchers have been busy developing a special polymer that can self-assemble, putting an insulator around wires at the nano-scale level and allowing the trend for smaller/faster/cooler chips to continue. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2012
Steve Furber |
Low-Power Chips to Model a Billion Neurons A miniature, massively parallel computer, powered by a million ARM processors, could produce the best brain simulations yet |
InternetNews
February 17, 2004
Michael Singer |
Big Blue Tweaks Chip Contender IBM's new 970FX combines three different technologies for its next generation PowerPC. Apple is cheering. Intel and AMD had better watch out. |
InternetNews
October 27, 2004
Michael Singer |
SGI Takes Off With NASA Supercomputer NASA's "Columbia" uses 10,240 Intel Itanium-2 chips to best IBM's Blue Gene/L and NEC's Earth Simulator. |
Bio-IT World
August 13, 2002
Salvatore Salamone |
Think Blue ... Again: It's in the Genes IBM has big plans for a new petaflop supercomputer -- Blue Gene -- designed primarily for the life sciences. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2009
Keith Gurnett & Tom Adams |
Up next: through-silicon vias The excitement over TSVs has been caused by the enhancement in process speed that can be gained by shortening distances. |
InternetNews
November 14, 2005
Clint Boulton |
IBM Grabs Top 3 on Supercomputing List IBM machines take up three of the first 10 spots on the Top500 list. |
InternetNews
April 21, 2004
Clint Boulton |
IBM Inks Major Supercomputing Deal with GM Systems vendor secures multi-million-dollar contract to provide 145 p655 machines to automaker General Motors. |
Wired
July 2001
Oliver Morton |
Gene Machine IBM took a dare: Build a supercomputer that predicts the invisible process of protein folding. Spend $100 million, increase processing speed 100-fold, and revolutionize the field. Then convince the biologists it matters... |
The Motley Fool
June 23, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Is Intel Eating AMD's Supercomputing Lunch? Supercomputers don't change all that much in design -- but Intel is stealing serious market share in the fastest and most expensive market segment out there. |
The Motley Fool
October 16, 2009
Eric Jhonsa |
A Brave New World of Low-Power Servers New systems running cheaper, less power-hungry chips will cause problems for Intel, AMD, and others. |
PC World
September 12, 2002
James Niccolai |
Tomorrow's CPU: Wireless Link Inside Intel finds new ways to shrink, speed chips, plus build in radio functions. |
InternetNews
October 5, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
Cray Unleashes XD1 Opteron/Linux Supercomputer The competition in the commercial supercomputer business is about to heat up, thanks in part to a newly available supercomputer offering from Cray. |
CIO
August 18, 2011
Agam Shah |
IBM Brings Brain Power to Experimental Chips IBM makes chips based on the structure and operation of the human brain. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2009
Brian R. Santo |
25 Microchips That Shook the World A list of some of the most innovative, intriguing, and inspiring integrated circuits |
InternetNews
June 22, 2004
Michael Singer |
Big Blue Eyes Optical Chip Connectors A new high-speed photodetector lets chips talk to each other using high-speed light pulses. |
PC World
March 12, 2002
James Niccolai |
Intel Shrinks Chip, Hits Milestone Prototypes of high-density chips support nearly eight times as many transistors as today's Pentium 4... |
PC Magazine
December 21, 2005
Sebastian Rupley |
Super-Duper Computing The fastest computer on Earth, IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer, just got a whole lot faster. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2012
David Schneider |
Could Supercomputing Turn to Signal Processors (Again)? Texas team says digital signal processors could compete in high-performance computing |
BusinessWeek
October 4, 2004
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Those Superfast Chips: Too Darn Hot Cooling today's fastest chips is becoming a challenge in even the biggest desktop towers. |
Bio-IT World
Dec 2006/Jan 2007
Salvatore Salamone |
IBM Tops Supercomputing Top 500 List The IBM Blue Gene/L system retained the premier spot in the latest edition of the Top 500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers. But perhaps the trend that labs should be seizing upon is the rapid adoption of multi-core processors for high performance computing. |
