The TOP500 organization has recently published a new list of the world's most powerful supercomputers, and this is for the first time that a system has managed to maintain its position atop the list, as Japan's "K Computer" has emerged yet again as the king of the pack."This is the first time since we began... |
15 November 2011
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Supercomputers seem to be spoken of a lot these days but, then again, with monsters the size of the Fujitsu K, this is hardly surprising.
The Top500 list of supercomputers will probably have the K at the very top next time it is compiled.
Though Fujitsu has not yet held the official press release that will official... |
4 November 2011
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It appears that things have been changing in the supercomputer industry, as the most recent TOP500 list turned out to be one that allowed AMD's advancements to stand out quite visibly.TOP500 is a periodically updated list where the many supercomputers around the world are tested for performance.Advanced Micro D... |
23 June 2011
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Released a short while ago, the latest version of the TOP5000 supercomputer list has a new leader, a Japanese system that is powered by 68,544 Sparc-based processors from Fujitsu and that is capable of delivering a staggering 8 petaflops of computational power.The so called K Computer is installed at the Riken Advanc... |
20 June 2011
15:31 GMT |
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Like all the segments of the IT industry, supercomputers have come a long way over the years. They have reached computational power beyond what people dared to dream a couple of decades ago. Additionally, those that create such clusters have begun experimenting with different approaches, such as GPU computing, while ... |
31 May 2010
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At the moment, in the world, there are only two supercomputers capable of operating at over one PetaFLOPS performance, the Roadrunner (1.042) and the Jaguar (1.76), the latter currently being the strongest Supercomputer on the Top500 list. This superpowered duo, however, is likely to become a trio this year, now that... |
15 March 2010
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The Top500 list classifies supercomputers according to their maximum computing power (how many flops they are capable of). In parallel, the Green500 list is its complement, measuring the power efficiency of those conglomerates. After this year's second Green500 report, IBM was shown to have preeminence in the ar... |
23 November 2009
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The newly released 32nd TOP500 supercomputers list also makes the world's second largest chip manufacturer, Advanced Micro Devices, proud of the capabilities of its technology. To be more precise, seven of the Top 10 fastest supercomputer systems in the world are powered by AMD Opteron processors, including the ... |
17 November 2008
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The 31st Top500 supercomputer list was released today at Dresden, Germany, and it brings good news, both for some of the companies involved and for the environmentalists. The dominance is held by IBM, with 210 systems out of 500, as well as 5 of the top 10. The second company on the list is Hewlett-Packard, which has... |
18 June 2008
11:18 GMT |
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