technology - "computers"

Official ranking of world's fastest computers is released - Breakthrough Design Extends 'Hybrid' trend to Computing -- Energy Efficiency and Smaller Footprint leads to 'Petaflop' Power - - - - ... [WebWire - Thursday, June 19, 2008]

Stony Stevenson writes 'The US Department of Energy's (DoE) high performance computing system is now the fastest supercomputer in the world for open science, according to the Top 500 list of the world's fastest computers. The list was announced this week during the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany. IBM's Blue Gene/P, known as 'Intrepid,' is located at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility and is also ranked third fastest overall. The supercomputer has a peak performance of 557 teraflops and achieved a speed of 450.3 teraflops on the Linpack application used to measure speed for the Top 500 rankings. According to the list, 74.8 percent of the world's supercomputers (some 374 systems) use Intel processors, a rise of 4 percent in six months. This represents the biggest slice of the supercomputer cake for the firm ever.' of this story at Slashdot.