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IBM sells supercomputer to GM

News General Motors has purchased an IBM supercomputer capable of performing 9 trillion calculations per second to speed up crash and safety simulations, giving a significant shot in the arm to Big Blue's supercomputer effort.

22 April 2004, 8:30

Supercomputers to run Windows

News Thunder, a machine at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with 512 Linux servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, can perform more than 19 trillion calculations per second, second only to Japan's Earth Simulator.

25 May 2004, 9:55

Harsh sentences loom for spammers

News Critics of the sentencing commission's fraud analogy argue that not only will those who are convicted under the statute face disproportionate sentences, but also that spam trial courtrooms will become the scenes of baroque and contentious loss...

15 April 2004, 9:50

Academics search for clues after supercomputer attacks

News The first two clusters of computers, at the NCSA and the SDSC, were connected earlier this year and together offered 4.5 teraflops (trillions of calculations per second) of computing power and access to more than 250 terabytes of disk storage...

16 April 2004, 9:20

Second IBM supercomputer speeds up the ranks

News The system, called Blue Gene Watson and located at IBM's Thomas Watson Research Center, performed 91.3 trillion calculations per second, or 91.3 teraflops. A second Blue Gene/L supercomputer has posted speed results that lift it to the high ranks...

13 June 2005, 9:09

US Army contractor buys Mac supercomputer

News System X, which vanished from the most recent list for upgrades, had sustained performance of 10.3 trillion calculations per second, or "teraflops. A US Army contractor has purchased a $5.8m, 1,566-server supercomputer from Apple, a real-world...

22 June 2004, 9:20

Photos: Fertility phones

News The company warns that the calculations are based on average cycles. The new D702iF mobile phone from Japan's DoCoMo is designed for women -- not just any women, but for those would-be mothers who want to know when they reach the most fertile part...

31 October 2006, 10:06

Chinese supercomputer heads towards top of rankings

News When AMD announced the Dawning 4000A in 2003, it predicted a speed surpassing 10 trillion calculations per second, or 10 teraflops. A Chinese supercomputer, the Dawning 4000A, is expected to rank high on an upcoming list of the fastest machines...

4 June 2004, 8:20

Rogue code can take down Linux systems

News The program, dubbed "evil.c," causes problems with the code sent to the floating-point unit, the part of the processor that handles noninteger calculations, according to a note in a source code patch published by Linux founder Linus Torvalds.

16 June 2004, 7:55

Supercomputer firm aims switch at smaller clusters

News The QsNetII E-series equipment was used in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Thunder supercomputer, made of 1,024 four-Itanium servers and completing 19.9 trillion calculations per second. Quadrics, a company that sells networking gear to...

3 June 2004, 7:50

IBM dominates supercomputing list

News The top system -- NEC's long-dominant, 5,120-processor Earth Simulator -- can perform 35.8 trillions of calculations per second, or 35.8 teraflops. IBM has regained dominance on a list of the 500 fastest supercomputers and has also landed two...

22 June 2004, 10:35

IBM signs up grid software partners

News Other application companies to have completed the grid compliance work are Engineous Software and Sefas, as well as Abaqus and Fluent which sell specialised software for completing complex calculations on a computing grid.

17 June 2004, 9:10

Putting hi-def video on your phone

News When you rotate an Acrobat document, there are a lot of calculations going on. Apple will release one of the most highly touted phones in history this week. But by next year, those first iPhones could be woefully outdated.

26 June 2007, 9:17

Via reveals chip for low-cost notebooks

News The chipset shuttles data back and forth to the processor, the primary chip that performs calculations. With its C7 processor, Via Technologies hopes to eliminate its performance credibility gap and allow notebook makers to come out with light...

31 May 2005, 9:46

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