Stories about: National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

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Two rival supercomputers duke it out for top spot 16 November, 2009 15:08

A Cray supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has regained the title of the world's most powerful supercomputer, overtaking the installation that was ranked at the top in June, while China entered the Top 10 with a hybrid Intel-AMD system.
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Yahoo claims 2-petabyte database is world's biggest, busiest 23 May, 2008 08:20

The petabyte is the new petaflop.
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IBM opens high-performance file system 16 December, 2005 08:02

IBM on Tuesday announced that it was loosening its grip on its high performance General Parallel File System, opening the source code to third-party vendors so that the software could run on hardware other than its own.
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IBM holds on to Top500 supercomputer lead 15 November, 2005 08:56

IBM retained its lead of the Top500 list of supercomputers with its BlueGene/L System installed at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories in California. The system topped the twice-yearly list of the fastest computers in the world for the third consecutive time and is likely to remain number one for some time since its size doubled earlier this year.
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Start-up Introduces a Technology First: The Personal Supercomputer 06 September, 2004 10:05

With $12 million in funding and a consulting chief scientist from Los Alamos whose research field is efficient computing, high-performance networking and bioinformatics, two of Transmeta's co-founders have reinvented the technical workstation, coming up with a completely new kind of box that's actually a "Personal Cluster" or even a "Personal Supercomputer" - a widget that puts 12 nodes in the space of a classic desktop or 96 nodes in a knee-knocking deskside - both configurations playing to the emerging rage for commodity Linux clusters.
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AMD gets supercomputing boost from China's Dawning 28 July, 2003 08:41

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) got another vote of confidence in the power of its 64-bit Opteron processor this week when China's Dawning Information Industry took the wraps off an Opteron-based supercomputer, capable of handling more than 10 trillion floating operations per second (TFLOPS).
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HP tops in supercomputer market share 25 July, 2003 14:15

IDC announced last week that HP is the worldwide leader in high-performance technical computing for 2002.
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HP dominates Top500 computer list 21 June, 2003 00:03

Hewlett-Packard Co. has narrowly maintained its position as the top supplier of systems on a list of the world's 500 most powerful computers, scheduled to be released on Monday.
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IBM again tops supercomputer rankings 22 June, 2001 09:18

IBM captured the number-one position, and six of the top 10, in a ranking released Thursday of the world's most powerful supercomputers.
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Managing STACS and STACS of Data 12 June, 2000 12:01

The Washington state legislature has a data management problem. Its constituent hot line has topped 2 terabytes (TB) of online storage and keeps growing.