eetimes.com - 2/3/2009
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SAN JOSE, Calif. The U.S. government has agreed to buy two supercomputers from IBM Corp., including one to be in use in 2012 that will ultimately scale to 20 petaflops, an estimated ten times the performance of today's most powerful system. Terms of the deal were not immediately released. In ...
apple.com - 1/27/2009
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apple.com —
CUPERTINO, California January 27, 2009 Apple today announced
that Mark Papermaster will be coming to Apple as
senior vice president of Devices Hardware Engineering, reporting to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, on April 24. Papermaster, who comes to Apple from ...
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Mark Papermaster to Begin at Apple as Senior Vice ...
pcworld.com - 2/3/2009
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pcworld.com —
The U.S. government has commissioned IBM to build
a massive supercomputer that will have 1.6 million processor
cores and be 15 times faster than today's most powerful machine, IBM announced Tuesday. The "Sequoia" supercomputer is scheduled for ...
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US Orders Massive Supercomputer to Manage Nuclear Stockpile
telegraph.co.uk - 2/2/2009
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IBM's Sequoia: 20x faster than the world's fastest supercomputer
Engadget —
... Roadrunner? Pfff, your chart-topping 1.105 petaflops are laughable. IBM just announced its 20-freaking-petaflop Sequoia supercomputer due for delivery by 2012. While supercomputer speeds have steadily increased year-over-year, a 20x jump in calculations ...
IBM's Sequoia is 20x faster than the world's fastest supercomputer
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... in an order for a new supercomputer from IBM, dubbed the Sequoia. What makes the Sequoia so special? Well, for starters it's about 20 times faster than the world's current fastest supercomputer. Yeah, it's pretty damned fast.
It's a 20 petaflop computer, and it's due in 2012. It'll use a total of 1.6 million cores assisted by 1.6 petabytes of memory to run calculations, most of which will simulate nuclear explosions. Also, I'm pretty sure it can run Crysis. Awesome.
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