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Inside the Top500 supercomputers
Roadrunner has topped the Top500 supercomputers list to be released Wednesday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany. Read more »
IBM breaks petaflop barrier with PS3 and AMD chips
Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop — 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second — twice as fast as the world's previous fastest computer, IBM's Blue Gene. Read more »
Sun's super supercomputer to launch
It got delayed a few months, but a new, somewhat unusual supercomputer from Sun Microsystems will get formally unveiled next week. Read more »
Criminals' botnet more powerful than BlueGene?
Criminals behind the Storm worm have created a botnet containing millions of PCs, which have a combined computing power greater than the most powerful supercomputer in existence. Read more »
IBM wins hybrid supercomputer deal
IBM has won a deal to build a supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) that will pair more than 16,000 AMD Opteron processors with more than 16,000 Cell processors to try to reach a new computing milestone for the company. Read more »
Blue Gene/L to top its own supercomputer record
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and IBM unveiled the Blue Gene/L supercomputer on Thursday and announced it's broken its own record again for the world's fastest supercomputer. Read more »
IBM reveals dual-core Power details
The PowerPC 970MP sports new technology that could lower power consumption and raise performance. Read more »
Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel
Apple Computer plans to announce Monday in the US that it's scrapping its partnership with IBM and switching its computers to Intel's microprocessors, CNET News.com has learned. Read more »
InfiniBand could boost Linux supercomputing
A group of companies bands together to bring the high-speed networking technology to the open-source OS. Read more »
IBM regains supercomputer bragging rights
IBM has regained dominance on a list of the 500 fastest supercomputers and has also landed two unusual prototypes in the top 10. Read more »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.