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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.   |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2005 |
Nuclear Testing Goes Virtual The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration officially dedicated two state-of-the-art supercomputers that should allow the United States' nuclear weapons arsenal to be kept in working order without the need for underground testing. |
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. |
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
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
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
July 22, 2005
Clint Boulton |
IBM's Purple Supercomputer Tops Teraflop Mark ASC Purple program manager says the machine performed better than expected and will be up and running this year. |
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. |
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. |
National Defense
May 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
Nuclear Programs Receive Money for Upgrades The Energy Department is allocating more money for monitoring and improving the nation's aging supply of nuclear weapons and concurrently is laying a foundation for the construction of new warheads. |
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. |
PC Magazine
October 11, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
Meep Meep! The fastest computer in the world is IBM's BlueGene/L supercomputer, code-named Roadrunner. |
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 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, 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
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
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. |
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. |
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. |
Wired
March 2002
Evan Ratliff |
This Is Not a Test A decade after America's last nuclear test, the US arsenal is decaying and its designers are retiring. Now a new generation of scientists is trying to preserve bomb-building knowledge before it's too late... |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2008
Courtney E. Howard |
LSI Upgrades Sandia Supercomputer with Storage Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories are upgrading Red Storm, one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, with high-performance storage. |
InternetNews
March 9, 2006
Clint Boulton |
IBM: The Power of Purple Called Project Fastball, IBM and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory shuttled 102 gigabytes per second of sustained read and write performance to a single file using the ASC Purple supercomputer. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2009
Slakey & Tannenbaum |
What About The Nukes? The U.S. nuclear stockpile is showing its age, but building new warheads isn't the solution. |
InternetNews
June 6, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Your Brain on Blue Gene IBM researchers and scientists in Switzerland will create a digital 3D model of the brain with Blue Gene. |
The Motley Fool
September 30, 2004
Brian Gorman |
IBM Claims Computing Crown With BlueGene/L, the world's fastest computer, Big Blue has demonstrated once again that it not only invests in the latest technology, but that its research spending finds its way into practical applications that pay dividends for shareholders. |
The Motley Fool
November 22, 2010
Gabriel Perna |
IBM's Supercomputers Pass the Green Test IBM is No. 1 in efficiency. |
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
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 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. |
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. |
National Defense
March 2010
Austin Wright |
An X-Ray Machine for Nukes The government is upgrading the X-ray technology that detects flaws in its nuclear weapons stockpile. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2009 |
...And More Forum Letters from readers: Errors in "What About the Nukes?"... The Kepler Space Telescope... |
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. |
Mother Jones
May/Jun 2002
Michael Scherer |
Building a Better Bomb Meet the Penetrator, one of the 'mini-nukes' the Bush administration wants to develop for conventional wars... |
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? |
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
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
July 7, 2010 |
IBM Testing Hot Water to Cool Servers IBM researchers in Switzerland are standing server cooling on its head, using water as warm as 140 degrees to cool processors that have an unusually high safe operating temperature. |
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. |
InternetNews
September 6, 2006
David Needle |
'RoadRunner' First to Supercomputer Finish Line IBM has won a bid to supply the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration with its latest supercomputer. |
The Motley Fool
September 11, 2006
Jack Uldrich |
IBM's Got Serious Game IBM's ability to repurpose a chip designed for high-end video games to instead simulate nuclear war games suggests that Big Blue still has some "serious game." That's why investors should remain bullish on the company as a long-term investment. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2013
Rachel Courtland |
Laser Fusion's Brightest Hope The National Ignition Facility houses the world's most powerful laser. Is it enough to ignite a fusion revolution? |
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 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 25, 2009 |
A Different Kind of Cell Division at IBM IBM has confirmed the end of the road for its Cell Broadband Engine processor, the hybrid multicore processor used in Sony's PlayStation 3 console - and little else. |
