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BusinessWeek
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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. |
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
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. |
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
July 2005
Salvatore Salamone |
New Blue Gene Project to Model the Brain IBM and a Swiss research institute have announced a joint research initiative dubbed the Blue Brain Project to create a 3-D model of the brain. To perform the simulations, the project will use a four-rack Blue Gene/L system that will deliver a peak processing of about 22.8 teraFLOPS (22.8 trillion operations per second). |
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. |
Chemistry World
July 6, 2007
Michael Gross |
Predicting How Proteins Fold Researchers in Italy and the UK have now developed a computational approach that can simulate the folding of membrane proteins in atomic detail. |
Geotimes
April 2004
Tim Palucka |
A Climate of Your Own The largest climate modeling experiment ever devised is running on borrowed time, literally. The model is taking computing time on loan from more than 47,000 personal computers worldwide, with the full knowledge and consent of their owners. |
Geotimes
November 2004
Megan Sever |
Fusion Stalemate Fusion as a viable energy source for the future... A "Takeout" nuclear plant... |
Chemistry World
March 27, 2009
Rebecca Trager |
US turns to science to help rebuild its economy The Department of Energy (DOE) intends to spend $1.2 billion from the recently enacted economic stimulus bill to create new jobs and bolster the nation's long-term scientific capacity. |
The Motley Fool
November 22, 2010
Gabriel Perna |
IBM's Supercomputers Pass the Green Test IBM is No. 1 in efficiency. |
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 18, 2004
Roy Mark |
Congress OKs Funding U.S. Supercomputers Congress gave its final approval Wednesday to a high-performance computing bill that dedicates $165 million over the next three years to support U.S. development of the world's fastest supercomputers. |
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
May 2007
William B. Gail |
Climate Control We will be able to engineer the Earth to our liking -- but we'd better start now. Before we picked a climate, we would need to evolve the political, commercial, and academic institutions to get us there. |
Chemistry World
October 2007 |
Chemistry Through the Lens Here is a photo of electrical discharges illuminating the surface of the Z machine, the world's most powerful X-ray source. |
Geotimes
September 2006
Lee Gerhard |
Testing Global Warming Hypotheses Global climate change has been a natural phenomenon driven by natural processes for 4.5 billion years. Nevertheless, cultural pressures exist to identify a human cause for current global climate change. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2008
Peter Fairley |
Does Fusion Have a Future? U.S. funding reversal for ITER suggests that fusion energy, which always seems to be close to discovery, has run out of time. |
PC Magazine
April 20, 2005
Sebastian Rupley |
Speed Demon for Rent IBM is offering access to Blue Gene--the speediest of all supercomputers. |
National Defense
April 2004
Geoff S. Fein |
Simulation Facility Targets Future Combat Systems A new 12,000 square foot modeling and simulation complex in Albuquerque, N.M., will be used to test and evaluate virtual prototypes of the Army's Future Combat Systems. |
Geotimes
February 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Virtual Climate Experiment's Results A worldwide global climate experiment that ran on tens of thousands of personal computers across the planet offered the most extreme scenario yet for global warming. |
Popular Mechanics
February 25, 2008
Erik Sofge |
MIT Fights for Clean Power With Holy Grail of Fusion in Reach A look down the belly of extreme machines producing forces 100,000 times stronger than the Earth's and forecasting the future of efficient energy. |
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. |
