Stories about: Jaguar

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    Japan may put brakes on fastest-supercomputer project 17/11/2009 14:28:00

    An ambitious plan by Japan to build the most powerful computer in the world stands on the brink of collapse this week after a government panel recommended funding for the project be virtually eliminated.
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    Supercomputers with 100 million cores coming by 2018 16/11/2009 23:19:00

    There is a race to make supercomputers as powerful as possible to solve some of the world's most important problems, including climate change, the need for ultra-long-life batteries for cars, operating fusion reactors with plasma that reaches 150 million degrees Celsius and creating bio-fuels from weeds and not corn.
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    Two rival supercomputers duke it out for top spot 16/11/2009 15:08:00

    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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    Nvidia says its new Fermi GPU will run supercomputers 01/10/2009 10:51:00

    Nvidia showed off a new GPU architecture on Wednesday that it hopes will allow it to move beyond gaming to play a greater role in the supercomputing market.
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    IBM, Cray lead Top 500 supercomputer rankings 24/06/2009 08:04:00

    The world's two most powerful computers have not been surpassed in 2009, but the latest edition of the Top 500 supercomputer list shows a new entry in third place and continued dominance from the likes of IBM, Cray, HP and Intel.
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    Human vs. machine: IBM supercomputer takes on 'Jeopardy!' 28/04/2009 08:00:00

    Who could possibly unseat the best Jeopardy! players in the history of the game show, Alex?
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    Google unveils tools to refine news and image searches 21/04/2009 08:51:00

    Google Inc. Monday afternoon released two new tools that are designed to make it easier for users to find the information - or images - they're looking for.
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    Can supercomputers help save the economy? 01/12/2008 07:15:00

    President-elect Barack Obama will soon outline an economic stimulus plan that likely will include billions of dollars for infrastructure projects, such as roads, bridges and new schools. Obama also is hearing calls for new funding to improve the information infrastructure and the virtual highways it runs on, and to broaden access to high-performance computing (HPC) systems.
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    How 10 Famous Technology Products Got Their Names 13/11/2008 10:25:00

    Coming up with a great technology product or service is only half the battle these days. Creating a name for said product that is at once cool but not too cool or exclusionary, marketable to both early adopters and a broader audience, and, of course, isn't already in use and protected by various trademarks and copyright laws is difficult--to say the least.
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    Cray's Jaguar may be world's fastest computer 12/11/2008 14:00:00

    About five months after IBM's Roadrunner supercomputer became the fastest computer in the world, Cray Inc.'s XT Jaguar could dethrone it next week.
 
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