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IBM Roadrunner Tops Cray as the Official World's Fastest Supercomputer [Supercomputers]
gizmodo.com - 11/17/2008
IBM Roadrunner Tops Cray as the Official World's Fastest Supercomputer [Supercomputers]
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It's like a geek soap opera. Just last week, Cray bragged that their updated Jaguar XT supercomputer was the world's fastest. Now this week, IBM responds to the trash talk with a number one ranking of their Roadrunner system on the newly published Top500 supercomputing list. Both the IBM and ...

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Docs show Apple failed to find ideal successor for iPod chief
appleinsider.com - 11/13/2008
Docs show Apple failed to find ideal successor for iPod chief
— appleinsider.com — A series of statements made in court filings by tentative iPod & iPhone chief Mark Papermaster and those who recruited him at Apple show that the company at first considered him a secondary pick. They also reveal that IBM's own management has ... (more) Docs show Apple failed to find ideal successor for iPod ...

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crn.com - 11/15/2008
Papermaster Countersues To Escape IBM's Legal Hounds - The Channel Wire - IT Channel News And ...
— crn.com — Mark Papermaster, the former IBM technical whiz who's being sued by a jilted Big Blue after taking a position at Apple last month, is attempting to wrestle free of the clutches of IBM's legal team by filing a countersuit. IBM claims that it competes ... (more) Papermaster Countersues To Escape IBM's Legal Hounds - ...

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www-03.ibm.com - 11/17/2008
IBM Press room - 2008-06-09 Fact Sheet & Background: Roadrunner Smashes the Petaflop ...
— www-03.ibm.com — Made from Commercial Parts. In total, Roadrunner connects 6,562 dual-core AMD Opteron chips as well as 12,240 Cell chips (on IBM Model QS22 blade servers). The Roadrunner system has 98 terabytes of memory, and is housed in 278 refrigerator-sized, IBM ... (more) IBM Press room - 2008-06-09 Fact Sheet & Background: ...

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IBM Roadrunner is now World's Fastest Supercomputer
Tech Blog — ... Roadrunner is now officially the world's fastest supercomputer, a title previously held by Cray. It consists of "12,960 IBM PowerXCell 8i Cell Broadband Engine processors and an additional 6,948 AMD Opteron Dual-Core processors." Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery. Both the IBM and Cray systems break the petaflop processing barrier according to Top500 measurements (1.45 petaflops vs 1.38 petaflops, respectively). [via Gizmodo] ...

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