A new contended seems to have joined the race for the world's fastest supercomputer, since the Bull: Tera 100 machine has officially broken the Petaflops barrier, by recording a performance of 1.05 million billion operations a second (1.05 Petaflops) in the LINPACK benchmark test, for a peak performance of 1.25 ... |
9 November 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 US Department of Energy (DOE) will start making thousands of processor hours available to open, unclassified research, at two new supercomputer facilities, starting from 2010. The two machines that will accept independent studies will be Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL) Cray XT system “Jaguar,&rd... |
4 May 2009
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IBM is perhaps the largest supercomputer designer, manufacturer and vendor in the world, having made history with its servers and mainframes. Now it looks as if the well respected company will soon start building a new supercomputer for the National Science Foundation that will be housed at the National Center for S... |
6 August 2007
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