Supercomputers

Mon, January 23, 2012 - The Watson supercomputer is about to begin evaluating cancer treatment options that can be delivered to physicians in a matter of seconds.

Fri, December 23, 2011 - T-Platforms, a Moscow-based tech company that has built some of that nation's largest systems, is developing a 10-petaflop supercomputer for M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, the company said this week.

Fri, December 23, 2011 - IBM's Watson supercomputer is about to begun work evaluating evidence-based cancer treatment options that can be delivered to the physician in a matter of seconds for assessment.

Wed, December 14, 2011 - Future GPUs will allow consoles to generate real-time graphics comparable with the pre-rendered cut scenes found in games today

Mon, December 05, 2011 - The DOE's exascale program is stalled, and its prospects appear bleak at a time of budget-cutting fever.

Tue, November 22, 2011 - The international competition to build an exascale supercomputer is gaining steam, especially in China and Europe, according to Peter Beckman , a top computer scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.

Wed, November 16, 2011 - Intel has produced a new chip that can operate at a sustained speed of one teraflop -- the type of supercomputing speed the U.S. government paid $55 million for 15 years ago.

Tue, November 15, 2011 - Intel aims for an exascale supercomputer by 2018, and is building more power-efficient server chips

Tue, November 15, 2011 - The new instance has 16 cores and 60.5GB of RAM, and is priced at $2.40 per hour

Tue, November 15, 2011 - Japan's Fujitsu targets major growth in high-perfomance computing and aims to promote its Lustre-based FEFS file system.

Mon, November 14, 2011 - Japan's K Computer has retained its pole position on the Top500 list of fastest supercomputers and become the first machine on the list to achieve performance of more than 10 petaflops.

Mon, November 14, 2011 - Cray Inc. is building a supercomputer for federally funded scientific research under a contract valued at $188 million that was originally won by IBM.

Thu, November 10, 2011 - But the first products are not expected to arrive until 2015

Wed, November 09, 2011 - The Sunway BlueLight is China's first to use domestically developed microprocessors