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Intel and AMD face off Today over Supercomputer Dominance
I4U News — ... Top500 Posted on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:34:42 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

IBM Roadrunner Tops Cray as the Official World's Fastest Supercomputer [Supercomputers]
Gizmodo — ... Seeing as the Cray XT5 uses 45,000 quad-core AMD Opteron processors to get the same job done, you've gotta be at least a little impressed. [Top500] ...

Roadrunner lidera o ranking TOP500 dos supercomputadores
MacMagazine — ... — supercomputador produzido pela IBM e hospedado no Laboratório Nacional de Los Alamos, no Novo México — lidera o ranking TOP500 dos supercomputadores mais rápidos do mundo, ultrapassando por pouco a capacidade de processamento do  ...

NEC’s updates its supercomputer “Earth Simulator System”, breaks record
CrunchGear — ... The Earth Simulator System is currently being used by the Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology, mainly for predicting developments in global warming  and similar meteorological calculations. It achieves sustained performance of 122.4 TFLOPS and boasts a computing efficiency of 93.38% on the LINPACK Benchmark, the highest in the world. ...

Water-Cooled Supercomputer Doubles as Dorm Space Heater
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... supercomputer, called Aquasar, will be housed at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich and will have a top speed of 10 teraflops. (A teraflop is a trillion floating point operations per second, a measure of computing capacity.) While that’s a lot of computing power — a Core 2 Duo processor is capable of about 20 gigaflops, or 1/500 the speed of Aquasar — it’s a fraction of what some of the fastest supercomputers today. For instance, IBM’s Blue Gene/L supercomputer, which ranks fourth on the top 100 list, has a peak ...

Fastest Computer in the World Focused on Climate Change
Eco Geek Latest — The Jaguar XT5 computer, housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Knoxville, Tenn. and owned by the Department of Energy was just named the fastest computer in the world by the TOP500 list.  It has a performance speed of 1.759 petaflops or quadrillions of calculations per second and that power is being focused on solving the issues of climate change. The Jaguar is an open science machine for performing peer-reviewed research.  It is being used to create models and simulations for predicting regional climate change, studying enzymes for developing better ethanol and writing algorithms ...