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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).
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 November 14, 2006 Clint Boulton	Spot-Swap Among The World's Fastest Supercomputers IBM's BlueGene/L system is still king of the supercomputing heap, according to the 28th list of the world's 500 most powerful supercomputers.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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 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 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 March 24, 2005 Clint Boulton	IBM Supercomputer Shatters Own Speed Record Blue Gene/L now simulates the nuclear arms stockpile at more than 135 teraflops - nearly twice its previous record.
InternetNews June 13, 2005 Clint Boulton	IBM Delivers Baby Brother For Blue Gene IBM released a companion to its fastest supercomputer that boasts a top speed of 91.29 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.
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.
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 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.
InternetNews November 8, 2004 Clint Boulton	IBM's Blue Gene Supercomputer is For Sale Fresh off the revelation that its top supercomputer has shattered LinPack performance records, IBM is offering its Blue Gene system for commercial businesses.
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.
InternetNews July 19, 2005 Clint Boulton	DoD Aims HP Supercomputer at Weapons Research The U.S. Department of Defense tabs Hewlett-Packard as its go-to systems vendor for a new cluster to study how to build new weapons.
InternetNews April 6, 2005 Clint Boulton	IBM Supercomputer to Help Volvo Avert Crashes The systems vendor will provide Volvo with 150 servers to perform crash simulations. The system is expected to become one of the automotive industry's fastest Linux clusters, based on systems listed on the Top500 Supercomputer list.
InternetNews April 25, 2005 Clint Boulton	SGI Has 'Eagle' Eye for DoD's Defense SGI has sold the U.S. Department of Defense a supercomputer to help the agency simulate aircraft, weapon systems and battlefield scenarios more accurately than ever before.
PC Magazine April 20, 2005 Sebastian Rupley	Speed Demon for Rent IBM is offering access to Blue Gene--the speediest of all supercomputers.
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 March 11, 2005 Clint Boulton	Now Open: Blue Gene On Demand IBM will now offer supercomputing power on demand through a new center in Minnesota.
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.
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.
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?
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 June 23, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft High on Performance Microsoft will be joining the supercomputer game when it serves up Windows Server 2003, high-performance edition.
IEEE Spectrum April 2011 Samuel K. Moore	China's Supercomputing Prowess As with gross domestic product, China is now solidly No. 2
InternetNews October 28, 2005 Clint Boulton	BlueGene/L Reaches Another Teraflop High The IBM-built BlueGene/L supercomputer performed at 280.6 trillion operations per second (teraflop) on the Linpack benchmark, shattering the previous high mark of performing at 135.3 teraflops.
The Motley Fool November 22, 2010 Gabriel Perna	IBM's Supercomputers Pass the Green Test IBM is No. 1 in efficiency.
InternetNews September 7, 2004 Clint Boulton	IBM's Blue Gene Breaks New Research Ground The four-rack supercomputer system will map protein structures in the hope of manufacturing more effective drugs for humans.
PC Magazine December 9, 2003	The $40,000 Supercomputer Is a supercomputer still a supercomputer if it can sit on your desk? The answer may soon be yes.
InternetNews August 17, 2005 David Needle	IBM Donates Supercomputer Resources IBM and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory said they will provide significant enhancements to the computer capabilities available to scientific researchers around the world.
InternetNews February 2, 2010	Air Force Taps PS3s for Low-Cost Supercomputer The end result of using off-the-shelf hardware could be one of the fastest supercomputers in the world - and at a fraction of rivals' prices and energy costs.
InternetNews April 18, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	High-Performance Computing Getting Higher A new IDC study shows high-performance server growth is up by 30 percent.
Bio-IT World February 2007 Kevin Davies	Turbo Charged Pharma Computing An interview with ASPEED Software's Kurt Ziegler on his insights into the latest Top 500 supercomputer rankings and the role of high-performance computing in biopharma.
PC Magazine October 11, 2006 Sebastian Rupley	Meep Meep! The fastest computer in the world is IBM's BlueGene/L supercomputer, code-named Roadrunner.
National Defense March 2011 Eric Beidel	In Global Supercomputing Race, China Moves to Front Of the Pack Supercomputers are critical for engineering simulations that lead to the creation of state-of-the-art weapon systems like the stealth aircraft that is now being developed by the Chinese. They help the military develop complex battle simulations.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2008 Courtney E. Howard	NASA, Intel, and SGI upgrade supercomputer, expand compute capabilities Experts at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Washington, Intel Corp. in Santa Clara, Calif., and SGI in Sunnyvale, Calif., are working toward significant increases in the computing performance and capacity of the space agency's supercomputer.
InternetNews November 16, 2009	Top Supercomputer Nearly Doubles in Speed Can a processor upgrade really yield those kinds of results?
Bio-IT World March 17, 2004	High-Performance Computing Life science companies are solving big problems with home-grown clusters, racks of blades, and gangs of PCs working overtime.
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.
InternetNews May 10, 2006 Clint Boulton	Nanotech to Get Supercomputing Treatment IBM is teaming with the state of New York and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to pump $100 million into a supercomputing center dedicated to advancing nanotechnology.
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.
PC Magazine August 2, 2006	Bits & Bites v25n14 IBM's brawny Blue Gene/L supercomputer is once again the world's fastest computer on the independently produced 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.
InternetNews November 24, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Windows Ekes Out a Presence in Supercomputing Only five of the top 500 supercomputers in the world run Windows, but it's a start. Microsoft lays out its strategy for the high-performance computing market.