All the stories tagged with supercomputer
Titan Supercomputer Has World’s Fastest Storage System
04/16/2013, The Titan does not fall under the supercomputer category for no particular reason, as it resides at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In fact, it is no ordinary supercomputer, having already “owned” the mantle of being the world’s most powerful supercomputer, [...]
NVIDIA Powers World’s Fastest Supercomputer: the Titan
11/12/2012, NVIDIA is making some noise in the supercomputing world today by unveiling its latest Tesla K-Series, in which K stands for “Kepler”, which is the name of the micro-architecture used to build it. That is the same architecture used in [...]
Titan is world’s most powerful supercomputer
10/30/2012, There is a certain prestige for a country to more or less “own” the world’s most powerful supercomputer, and the Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that they have just turned on such a behemoth, calling it the Titan. At [...]
IBM Sequoia is fastest supercomputer in the world
06/18/2012, The US has finally wrested the title of having the fastest supercomputer in the world after a short hiatus, with IBM’s Sequioa taking the plaudits in being declared to be the world’s fastest supercomputer. This particular supercomputer was named after [...]
IBM supercomputer to figure out universe’s origin
04/03/2012, Back in the 1980s, the IBM PC proved to be a powerhouse in bedrooms across the world, running on Microsoft’s DOS operating system. Well, the company has seen some lean times over the years, but they are far from finished. [...]
Exaflop computers coming your way, beats 50,000,000 laptops
03/29/2012, When the word ‘super’ is added as a prefix to a noun, you know that expectations will run high. Superman, Superwoman, Supercomputer…you get the idea. Well, Moore’s Law has certainly been in the groove for quite some time and shows [...]
T-Platforms to construct 10-petaflop supercomputer for Moscow State University
12/26/2011, The Moscow State University in Russia recently T-Platforms, a high-performance computing company, assigning them with a task that will see T-Platforms develop and construct a ten petaflop cluster which should enter operational status by the time 2013 rolls around. At [...]
Flash Gordon supercomputer
12/12/2011, Supercomputers might have lost their rather iconic status, with different countries going off on their own tangents to roll out what they classify as supercomputers. Heck, the folks in China want to build their own without relying on American chips, [...]
Fujitsu K supercomputer gains yet another speed boost
11/03/2011, China might have overtaken Japan as the world’s second largest economy, but for the moment, Japan is still top dog when it comes to the world’s fastest supercomputer, although China did touch the summit for a while before the Japanese [...]
China has their own supercomputer now
10/31/2011, China is not only the second largest economy in the world at the moment, trailing right behind the US at the moment, but the country also recently surprised high-performance US computing specialists as well by announcing the existence of the [...]
Titan supercomputer succeeds Jaguar
10/11/2011, Records are there and are meant to be broken, no? The Jaguar supercomputer’s time is up now, as there is a new challenger on the scene known as the Titan. How apt, considering the Titan sports 38,400 processors that boasts [...]
Supercomputer is the new crystal ball, predicts revolution
09/11/2011, In the distant future, do you think you will be able to see gypsy women peer into a computer monitor instead of a crystal ball so that they can chart the future? That seems to be the direction where we’re [...]
Japan supercomputer tops world ranking, pushes China aside in the process
06/20/2011, China’s economic might is something that the world is looking at in admiration after they opened up their economy, but who would have thought that the country also possessed the world’s fastest supercomputer? Well, that is all relegated to history [...]
