supercomputer http://www.itworld.com/supercomputer xx NICS joins petaflop supercomputer club http://www.itworld.com/government/81369/nics-joins-petaflop-supercomputer-club The National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) brought its new petaflop-scale supercomputer online this month, joining a very rarefied club of systems that can reach a thousand trillion calculations per second http://www.itworld.com/government/81369/nics-joins-petaflop-supercomputer-club#comments Government Science News supercomputer Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:33:40 -0400 ITworld staff 81369 at http://www.itworld.com Nvidia says its new Fermi GPU will run supercomputers http://www.itworld.com/hardware/79457/nvidia-says-its-new-fermi-cpu-will-run-supercomputers Nvidia showed off a new GPU architecture on Wednesday that it hopes will allow it to move beyond gaming to play a greater role in the supercomputing market. http://www.itworld.com/hardware/79457/nvidia-says-its-new-fermi-cpu-will-run-supercomputers#comments Hardware News Nvidia processors supercomputer Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:21:40 -0400 ITworld staff 79457 at http://www.itworld.com SGI aims at 'personal supercomputing' that's cheap, easy-to-use http://www.itworld.com/hardware/78438/sgi-aims-personal-supercomputing-thats-cheap-easy-use They aren't selling personal supercomputers at Best Buy just yet. But that day probably isn't too far off, as the costs fall and they become easier to use. http://www.itworld.com/hardware/78438/sgi-aims-personal-supercomputing-thats-cheap-easy-use#comments Hardware News SGI supercomputer Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:21:59 -0400 ITworld staff 78438 at http://www.itworld.com U.S. buys weather supercomputer with twin backup http://www.itworld.com/hardware/77022/us-buys-weather-supercomputer-twin-backup The U.S. has upgraded the supercomputer used to develop weather forecast models, a system so critical to meteorologists that the government has bought a second, identical system as a backup. http://www.itworld.com/hardware/77022/us-buys-weather-supercomputer-twin-backup#comments Government Hardware News supercomputer weather Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:22:52 -0400 ITworld staff 77022 at http://www.itworld.com Supercomputers go from biggest to cheapest http://www.itworld.com/hardware/69809/supercomputers-go-biggest-cheapest Top 500 list's low-end reveals coming revolution in truly accessible high-end computing http://www.itworld.com/hardware/69809/supercomputers-go-biggest-cheapest#comments Hardware News IBM processor supercomputer Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:28:57 -0400 ITworld staff 69809 at http://www.itworld.com