pcworld.com - 2/3/2009
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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 operation in 2012 and will be able to perform at 20 ...
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 ...
eetimes.com - 2/3/2009
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eetimes.com —
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 ...
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U.S. taps IBM for 20 petaflops computer
telegraph.co.uk - 2/2/2009
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USA orders Sequoia - "the fastest supercomputer in the world"
Tech Digest —
... supercomputer. What are they going to use it for? Managing their nuclear weapons stockpile. Yes, they've still got that many. It'll occupy 96 server racks over an area the size of a tennis court, and use 6 megawatts of power. While they're building it, they're building a smaller supercomputer to build the applications that'll run on the big one. "Dawn" will run at 500 teraflops. The only thing unspecified? How much the whole project's going to cost. I suspect it won't be cheap. (via PC World) Related posts: ...
IBM supercomputer of unheard-of size to monitor nukes
CrunchGear —
... The US Government has decided at last that it’s time for Skynet. They’ve tapped IBM to create a supercomputer nearly twenty times as powerful as the current world champion: IBM’s Roadrunner, running at 1.1 ...
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