For a record-setting ninth consecutive time, an IBM system has taken the number one spot in the ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. The winner, IBM’s “Roadrunner” computer, remains the world speed champion at faster than one quadrillion calculations per second (petaflop). (more…)

The U.S. Department of Energy reports the world’s fastest computer, a hybrid supercomputer codenamed “Roadrunner”, that can compute 1,000 trillion operations per second. The machine was designed by IBM and uses Cell Broadband Engine chips, technology originally developed for video game platforms. (more…)

Africa is now the fastest-growing region in the world in terms of mobile connections and is expected to show first-quarter growth this year that will see the region total more mobile connections than the US and Canada. The findings are from the latest Wireless Intelligence report that puts Africa at the top of the global growth table, recording a 38 percent growth rate in 2007. This was ahead of the Middle East (33 percent) and Asia Pacific (29 percent). Meanwhile, in the first-quarter 2008, Africa’s connection base is expected to reach more than 280 million, which will overtake the US and Canada (277 million). (more…)