Neowin News Feed for: Supercomputer

Only 3 of the world's most powerful computers run Windows

Tyler Holman — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 03:39:35 +0000

3 of the world's 500 most powerful supercomputers run Windows, compared to the 469 running Linux. The good news? That's more than in June. The bad news? It's still even less than last year. Read more...

Cray announces XC30 computer, capable of 100 petaflops worth of computing

Paul Ferson — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:27:00 +0000

Cray has announced its XC30 supercomputer, offering an impressive 100 petaflops of computing power to academics and researchers who might need it. No prizes for making a "that speed cray" joke. Read more...

Xeon Phi, Intel's new “co-processor” for supercomputing

Alfonso Maruccia — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:46:04 +0100

The chipmaker introduced its new product for the HPC market dubbed “Xeon Phi”, a new “co-processor” that will work in tandem with Xeon CPUs to deliver new levels of performances. Read more...

IBM now has world's fastest supercomputer

John Callaham — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:03:50 +0100

IBM now holds the claim of building the world's fastest supercomputer. The Sequoia, installed in the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, achieved 16.32 petaflops. Read more...

IBM's Watson poised to take over salesmen jobs

Christopher White — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 01:27:13 +0100

IBM continues to use their technology to take over the world. First Watson became a Jeopardy champion and later the company started pushing their solution to assist doctors in the medical world. Now it appears... Read more...

IBM's Watson to help doctors with diagnoses

Christopher White — Mon, 23 May 2011 02:49:58 +0100

Watson’s goal to take over the world is continuing. IBM’s supercomputer first took out top Jeopardy contestants earlier this year. Now, according to USA Today, Watson is preparing to be used in the medical field... Read more...

IBM's Watson beats Jeopardy champions in first round

Christopher White — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:44:05 +0000

"Elementary, my dear Watson." IBM's supercomputer, named Watson in honor of IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, bested star Jeopardy contestants Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings and it wasn't even close. Watson ended the day with... Read more...

IBM bored of chess, taking on Jeopardy. Wheel of Fortune next?

Brian Donohue — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:10:21 +0000

After tackling the world's Chess Grandmaster's, IBM has set its sights on a new and arguably more complicated game: Jeopardy. Chess moves and strategy are computable through algorithms and mathematics, but IBM's Watson is looking... Read more...

China's supercomputer power grows

Matt Blowes — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 05:34:47 +0100

In the biannual Top 500 supercomputer list, China for the first time has two supercomputers appearing in the top ten fastest machines, but the U.S. continues to outmatch the rest of the world with over... Read more...

US Air Force builds supercomputer using PlayStation 3s

Matthew Hopson — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:56:41 +0000

A US Air Force research team has built a supercomputer using just over 2,000 PlayStation 3 game consoles, according to military news site Stars and Stripes. Dubbed the 500 TeraFLOPS Heterogeneous Cluster it is almost... Read more...

Oak Ridge supercomputer fastest for open research

Matthew Hopson — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:03:31 +0000

The Cray XT supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, is now the World's fastest unclassified supercomputer, boasting a peak performance of 1.64 petaflops and a sustained performance of 1.3 petaflops. The only computer... Read more...

Microsoft and Cray announce 'affordable' supercomputer

Michael Stanclift — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:39:05 +0100

On Monday, Microsoft and supercomputer manufacturer Cray announced that they have teamed up to release the Cray CX1, the most affordable supercomputer that Cray has ever created. Prices start at $25,000 and range up to... Read more...

Supercomputer sets record

recon13 — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:45:09 +0100

An American military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second. The new machine is more than twice... Read more...

Britain's Fastest Supercomputer unveiled

Slimy — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:00:37 +0000

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A supercomputer that could help answer some of science's biggest questions will be unveiled on Monday. With the power of 12,000 desktop PCs, the mammoth machine called HECToR is the country's fastest computer and one... Read more...

ATI R680 is 1000X Faster Than a Cray-1 Supercomputer

EL1TE — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:19:13 +0000

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We just got a nice look at the R680, the upcoming enthusiast graphics card from ATI that is, apparently, as fast as 1000 Cray-1s. We're not allowed to say exactly how fast that is, but... Read more...

Supercomputer Expert Joins Microsoft

Sagittarius — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:21:16 +0000

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In what will be his first job in the commercial sector, veteran supercomputer research Daniel Reed, former director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, chief architect of... Read more...

China buys an IBM supercomputer

Slimy — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:43:52 +0100

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A lot depends on the weather, and apparently during the Olympics it is a particularly necessary to be on the ball. The 2008 Olympic Summer Games are to be hosted in China and so the... Read more...

Sir Alan Sugar unveils East End supercomputer

Tom Warren — Fri, 04 May 2007 08:42:22 +0100

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Everyone's favourite shouty TV star, Sir Alan "you're fired!" Sugar unveiled a supercomputer at Queen Mary, University of London this morning. Sugar cajoles wannabe entrepreneurs on BBC1's The Apprentice and is founder of computer maker... Read more...

Supercomputer joins fight against AIDS

Slimy — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:26:56 +0000

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AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis should be the ones scared for a change. In South Africa, a supercomputer costing $1 million was donated by Intel and is now dedicated to scientific research for these diseases. Installed... Read more...

IBM wins hybrid supercomputer deal

Hurmoth — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 03:26:15 +0100

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IBM has won a deal to build a supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory that will pair more than 16,000 AMD Opteron processors with more than 16,000 Cell processors to try to reach a new... Read more...