IBM: fastest supercomputer, again
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008For 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).
Hybrid supercomputer now world’s fastest
Monday, June 9th, 2008The 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.
IBM: supercomputer for businesses
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008IBM launched a new addition to its High Performance Computing line-up, the BladeCenter QS22. The new technology, IBM indicates, was designed as an economical and flexible way commercial sectors including financial services, digital media creation and medical imaging could gain access to supercomputer-level computing power.
Galley, the most powerfull supercomputer in Eastern Europe
Friday, April 4th, 2008Poland’s biggest supercomputer , The Galley”, delivers the computing power of 50 Trillion Operations Per Second (TFLOPS) – which is 4,400 times more powerful than IBM Deep Blue that won the chess match with Gary Kasparov in 1997. The supercomputer is based on 1,400 quad-core Intel Xeon processors and power of 5,600 computing cores. This [...]
