Meep Meep! Introducing Roadrunner - the world's fastest supercomputer

After six years of hard work, Roadrunner, the world's fastest supercomputer, was born on Monday at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. At an astounding cost of $100 million, it is capable of performing 1000 trillion...

42: Happy 30th, Hitchhikers' Guide

Douglas Adams' seminal radio program has turned thirty, but the number that fans remember is 42: a supercomputer's answer to the question, "what is the meaning of life?".Theories abound, from hidden Lewis Carroll...

IBM Proposes One Computer to Run Entire Internet

"Dreaming big; IBM looks to host entire internet on a single modified Blue Gene supercomputer"

Super solution for Rubik's cube

"The ultimate solution to the Rubik's cube has come closer thanks to hours of number crunching on a supercomputer. The research has proved that a Rubik's cube can be returned to its original state in no more than 26 moves. The supercomputer took 63 hours to crank out the...

Super solution for Rubik's cube

"The ultimate solution to the Rubik's cube has come closer thanks to hours of number crunching on a supercomputer. The research has proved that a Rubik's cube can be returned to its original state in no more than 26 moves. The supercomputer took 63 hours to crank out the...

Putting electronics in a spin

"When engineers flick the switch to turn on the world's fastest supercomputer later this year it will be capable of chewing its way through 1,000 trillion calculations every second. But this speedy number cruncher could soon look like the equivalent of a dusty abacus if...

A Google Supercomputer Division?

As an electromagnetics guy I stay in touch with a lot of what is happening in that segment of physics by subscribing to plain, ol' email lists. People who need info just fire off a question to the group and someone...

Louisiana Hosts One of World's Largest Supercomputers with New 4.1-terabyte S...

"Massive System at Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE) is One of Largest Shared-Memory Computers Available to Private Sector LAFAYETTE, La. (September 18, 2006) — With a single computer acquisition from SGI (OTC: SGID), the Louisiana Immersive Technologies...

Fastest supercomputer to be built

Computer giant IBM will build the world's most powerful supercomputer at a US government laboratory.

Japan plans 30-year supercomputer forecasts (AP)

" TOKYO - Japan is planning ultra long-range 30-year weather forecasts that will predict typhoons, storms, blizzards, droughts and other inclement weather, an official said Tuesday. The project, to start next year, will harness the powers of one of the world's fastest...

The words that trigger Echelon

I don't believe it. Echelon must be more sophisticated. But maybe not. Not if it's the same people who didn't know there were no WMD in Iraq.

My Supercomputer Is Bigger Than Yours!!

"IBM HAS JUST UNVEILED the most powerful computer (supercomputer) in Europe this week in Germany, or at least they think they have, but there seems to be some doubt about it. This version of the IBM-built Blue Gene machine at the Juelich Research Centre has managed...

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