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InternetNews
March 16, 2007
David Needle |
Stanford Disease Research Effort Calls On PS3 Users Distributed computing makes the PS3's Cell processor a valuable commodity. The aim is to help support Folding@Home, a research effort trying to unlock the the causes of Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, cystic fibrosis and many cancers.   |
The Motley Fool
March 26, 2007
Anders Bylund |
Can the PlayStation Save Your Life? A PS3 client for a popular scientific research project triples the plan's computing power over the weekend. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2007
Erik Sofge |
PlayStation 3 Set to Save the World, One Disease at a Time Sony recently released software that lets gamers connect their PS3s to Stanford University's Folding@Home program, which borrows processing power from thousands of PCs to create protein-folding simulations. |
InternetNews
September 29, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Video Cards Become Scientific Calculators ATI Technologies and researchers at Stanford University have found a way to use the high-powered graphics processing unit on video cards to perform the number crunching needed for a scientific distributed computing project. |
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. |
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
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
December 10, 2002
Kevin Davies |
Do Try This @ Home In the most impressive sign of distributed computing's awesome potential in biology thus far -- at least in peer-review literature -- researchers have simulated the folding of a mini-protein on a microsecond timescale. |
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. |
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
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
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
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 |
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
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. |
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
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. |
AskMen.com
Bernie Alexander |
5 Things You Didn't Know About PlayStation 3 At the moment, the secrets surrounding the release of PS3 are being more closely guarded than nuclear launch codes. Nonetheless, we've learned quite a bit about what we can expect of this new toy. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2007
Joel Johnson |
How to Donate Your PC's Downtime to Scientific Research Your computer rarely employs 100 percent of its processing capability, and it uses very little while sitting idle. Distributed computing combines the unused processing-power of multiple Internet-connected computers for scientific number crunching. |
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
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. |
Popular Mechanics
June 9, 2008
Jancy Langley |
How the PS3 Helped Build the World's Fastest Supercomputer The military isn't the only branch of U.S. government that relies on gaming companies for its R&D. Pentagon geeks may use Xbox 360 controllers, but government-funded scientists went straight for the hardware. |
The Motley Fool
June 17, 2005
Jack Uldrich |
IBM: Outcomputing Its Competitors IBM's new 91-teraflop supercomputer, Watson Blue Gene, could give Big Blue an edge over the competition in the life science, IT, and materials science sectors. |
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 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 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. |
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 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
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
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. |
The Motley Fool
April 23, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
Sony PS3 Gets Played Sony reports its latest quarter in May, so it should be interesting to get a better idea of what's going on with the gaming division. It looks like examining the PS3 strategy is a good idea for Sony. |
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... |
BusinessWeek
December 4, 2006
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
PlayStation 3: It's Got Game PS3 is a gamer's dream, but it disappoints as a home-entertainment device. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
July 9, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
Sony See-Saws on PS3 Price The electronics giant finally cuts its price for its high-end PlayStation 3 video game console, despite word to the contrary. Investors, this long-rumored development sounds like a perfectly logical move. |
The Motley Fool
November 15, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Sony's Got Issues Do current glitches for the electronics giant signal tough times ahead for shareholders? |
PC Magazine
October 27, 2004 |
Bits & Bites v23n20 Talking Head... More Than Meets the Eye... A Late Burst... |
PC Magazine
February 2, 2005
John C. Dvorak |
Intel's Albatross Sony's new PlayStation 3 game machine will use an advanced 2-teraflop CPU being developed jointly by IBM, Sony, and Toshiba. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
April 13, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
Sony Ditches Low-End PS3 Kiss that 20GB model goodbye. It's a stretch to call the PS3 a dud, but Sony clearly now faces a more difficult competitive landscape than the once-dominant brand experienced in the past. |
The Motley Fool
July 2, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Will Activision Kill Sony? The Sony PlayStation 3 is starting to look shaky in an otherwise brilliant video game market. |
InternetNews
May 4, 2010 |
Sony Facing Lawsuit Over Linux on PS3 Sony moved to block use of Linux on its PlayStation 3 game console. That isn't sitting well with users, who include some very high-profile names. |
Popular Mechanics
July 15, 2008
Erik Sofge |
Trailing Wii, Sony Banks on PS3 Blu-ray Against Cheaper Xbox 360 The game console war continues. If Sony's "shrink-and-see" approach gains momentum, the death of one format war might just lead to the conclusion of another -- and the death knell for Microsoft's gaming empire. |
The Motley Fool
May 2, 2011
Arunava De |
Sony PlayStation 3 Is Down, but Is It Out? As competition against PS3 increases, how equipped is the company to fight Xbox and Wii. |
The Motley Fool
August 19, 2009
Anders Bylund |
The PS3 Goes on Fire Sale Granting consumers' wishes, Sony drops PlayStation 3 prices like they're hot. |
The Motley Fool
September 6, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Sony Stands Up Gamers ... Again Sony shareholders shouldn't be pleased about another PlayStation 3 delay. |
The Motley Fool
May 22, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
Sony Plays Around With PS3 The electronics giant's most recent quarter may have given investors hope that its turnaround is nigh, but the drama surrounding its PlayStation 3 continues. |
The Motley Fool
February 1, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Put Sony on Pause Sony's latest quarter contained some good news, but it wasn't a home run. |
