IBM Retakes Top Supercomputer Rank as NEC Slips
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IBM IBM.N, the world's biggest  computer maker, has regained its position at the head of the  Top 500 list of supercomputer installations, dislodging rival  NEC Corp. 6701.T of Japan, the company said on Monday.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) has been selected to build a next-generation supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), officials with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today.
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IBM&#39;s still incomplete Blue Gene/L system being built in Rochester, Minnesota, has officially been named the fastest supercomputer in the world.
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NEC has unveiled its latest supercomputer, which is almost twice as fast as the BlueGene/L machine rolled out by IBM in September.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM still operates the fastest supercomputer in the industry, but rival Hewlett-PackardÂ has more of them in operation, according to a closely watched global survey released Wednesday. HP has passed IBM in the number of supercomputers in operation and enjoys the largest market share, according to a list of the Top 500 supercomputers that was compiled by university computer researchers in the U.S. and Germany. ButÂ IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer, installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California,Â ranked first on the listÂ and IBM claims it is the market share leader when vendors are ranked by combined computing performance. The biannual list is being released Wednesday to coincide with the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany. HP grew its market share to 40.4 percent with 202 systems, while IBM's share fell to 38.4 percent with 192 systems. In the previous report in November 2006, IBM's share was 47.2 percent with 236 systems, to HP's 31.6 percent with 158 systems. IBM said it holds a 42 percent share of the supercomputer market when it's based on the combined processing power of each vendor's equipment. Its Blue Gene/L took the No. 1 spot with a "sustained performance" of 280.6 trillion operations per second, or teraflops. Flops is an acronym for "floating point operations per second," a measure of computing performance. On Tuesday IBM announced a new supercomputer, Blue Gene/P, which will have three times the processing power of the Blue Gene/L. A two-rack test model of the P made it into the top 30 on the list, achieving 20.86 teraflops (T flops), although IBM said that properly configured, the P may be able to hit 3 petaflops (P flops), or 1,000 trillion calculations per second. Sun Microsystems, which held only a 1.4 percent share with only seven systems deployed, is making a concerted effort to pursue the supercomputer market. Sun announced Tuesday it is building a supercomputer, codenamed "Constellation," which is designed to reach 1P flops. It is building Constellation at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin. Sun received $29.6 million of a total $59 million National Science Foundation grant to build Constellation, while the balance of $29.4 million will go towards operational costs, said Faith Singer, a TACC spokeswoman. The Top Five Supercomputer systems in the latest survey, their manufacturer, the number of processors and the user are as follows: 1. IBM, 131,072, US. Department of Energy-Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 2. IBM, 40,960, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. 3. IBM, 12,208 , DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 4. Silicon Graphics Inc., 10,160, NASA Ames Research Center. 5. Bull S.A., 8,704, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA) in France
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[New York | Reuters News Service, 30 September 2004] - IBM said yesterday that it has developed the world&#39;s fastest computer, putting it back on top after a Japanese supercomputer claimed the title two years ago.
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Technology giant IBM will announce today that it has built the world&#39;s most powerful supercomputer, surpassing the performance of a machine in Yokohama, Japan.
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IBM has brought the title of the world&#39;s fastest supercomputer back to the United States for the first time in three years... IBM&#39;s still incomplete Blue Gene/L system was officially named the fastest in the
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TOKYO, Japan -- Japanese electronics giant NEC Corp., said it has begun selling the worldâs fastest supercomputer. NEC claimed its SX-8 is the most powerful âvector-typeâ supercomputer, with a sustainable
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IBM Corp. claimed unofficial bragging rights Tuesday as owner of the world's fastest supercomputer. For three years running, the fastest supercomputer has been NEC's Earth Simulator in Japan.
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NEW YORK, September 29  - International Business Machines Corporation (IBM.NYS) has claimed to have developed the world&#39;s fastest supercomputer.
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IBM has claimed that its Blue Gene/L supercomputer has edged out rival NEC&#39;s Earth Simulator to become the world&#39;s most powerful supercomputer.
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A supercomputer being built by IBM for the US Department of Energy (DOE) has topped a list of the world&#39;s fastest computers. The Blue Gene/L beta-system can perform 70,720 billion calculations per second, which
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IBM&#39;S Big Blue has helped the US reclaim the title of the world&#39;s fastest supercomputer for the first time in three years.
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As expected, IBM took over the top slot on the Top500 supercomputing list with a BlueGene/L system that shatters previous Linpack benchmarks at 70.
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Less than a month after IBM claimed the world&#39;s fastest computer crown from NEC, the Japanese company announced it is trying to win it back with a new supercomputer that will be available at the end of the year.
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Less than a month after IBM Corp. claimed the world's fastest computer crown from NEC Corp., the Japanese company is trying to win it back with a new supercomputer that will be available from December, it said Wednesday.