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The petabyte is the new petaflop.

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.

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.

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.

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).

IDC announced last week that HP is the worldwide leader in high-performance technical computing for 2002.

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.

IBM captured the number-one position, and six of the top 10, in a ranking released Thursday of the world's most powerful supercomputers.

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