Q&A: What Roadrunner's petaflop Top500 milestone is all aboutThe Top500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers passed a milestone Wednesday with the first system to achieve peak performance of 1 petaflop, or one quadrillion floating point operations per second. Erich Strohmaier, a computer scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, was one of the founding editors of the Top500 list back in 1993. He talked with IDG News Service about the performance gains the list has seen, the quad-core processors that are coming to dominate it and mistakes that can creep in when the list is put together.
Looking back on the Top500 supercomputersThe Top500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers passed a milestone Wednesday with the first system to achieve peak performance of 1 petaflop/s, or one quadrillion floating point operations per second.
Why PC Problems May Not Be Your FaultMisconfigured computers straight from the manufacturer can ruin your life. ABCnews.com Wednesday, June 18, 2008
US machine wins world computer speed championshipDresden, Germany - The latest semi-official ranking of the world's fastest computers was a no-contest for the top spot, with the Roadrunner, a new US government computer which can simulate atom-bomb blasts, winning hands down on Wednesday. The twice ...
Intel extends command in fast-computers tallyDRESDEN, Germany (AP) -- Microprocessors from Intel Corp. run more of the world's fastest computers than ever, according to a report released Wednesday that tracks progress in the computing industry.... The Arizona Republic Wednesday, June 18, 2008
IBM Roadrunner Meep-Meeps to Top of Supercomputer RankingsIBM claimed bragging rights Wednesday as its Roadrunner supercomputer earned the title of the world's most powerful supercomputer. The ranking, bestowed during the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany, is a biannual event that ranks the 500 most powerful computers around the world. TechNewsWorld Wednesday, June 18, 2008
World's Fastest Supercomputers Employ AMD OpteronT Processors to Reach Unprecedented Performance3 of the Top 5 systems and 7 of the Top 20 systems depend on AMD innovation - - - -Top 20 showing for AMD Opteron processors outpaces any other x86 processor architecture by almost 2:1 - - - DRESDEN, Ge... [WebWire - Wednesday, June 18, 2008] Webwire Wednesday, June 18, 2008
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