Russia's first petaflop capable supercomputer just came into operation at the Rosatom Nuclear Energy State Corporation in Sarov. The machine has a sustained performance of 780 teraflops, making it the 12th-fastest system in the world in an unofficial Supercomputer TOP500 list.
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11 March 2011
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Recently, a large group of experts led by a team from the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego managed to perform peta-scale simulations of the internal structure of the planet, breaking various records and barriers in the process. This is supposed to enable seismology experts to devise seismic models of wa... |
29 November 2008
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Scientists from Iowa State University are going to be part of a giant consortium involved in the development of the most powerful supercomputer in the world. The new device, which will be located at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, will be able to perform a su... |
19 September 2008
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IBM announced last weekend that it had managed to break down the supercomputing's petaflop barrier with its RoadRunner system, which is capable of processing more than one thousand trillion (one quadrillion) sustained floating-point operations per second. Now, it is time for supercomputer developers to turn thei... |
10 June 2008
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The US Department of Energy has announced recently that it currently owns the world's fastest supercomputer, the 'RoadRunner', designed and built to operate on video game console processors. The RoadRunner is allegedly capable of executing 1,000 trillion computations per second, or a petaflop, while th... |
10 June 2008
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IBM has a long standing tradition in building supercomputers and mainframes and lately their machines are likely to be the most powerful computing platforms in the whole world. Until now the most powerful supercomputer was IBM's Blue Gene model L system, but now a new and even more powerful system is on its way.... |
13 August 2007
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