Boeing has bought a 96-processor supercomputer based on the Linux operating system and Advanced Micro Devices processors for use in designing the new Delta IV rocket that launches satellites into space.
Academics once picked up on AMD's processors for supercomputing because they were inexpensive and performed well. But while the chips continue to conquer more of the desktop market, their attractiveness for supercomputers may have dimmed.
The University of Delaware's new machine, dubbed 'Samson', is expected to rank within the top 200 of the fastest supercomputers in the world. Guess who's making the chips?
This photo gallery takes you inside Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US, home to some of the world's fastest supercomputers. It's also the site where the first plutonium was refined to create atomic bombs during World War II.
Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second twice as fast as the world's previous fastest computer, IBM's Blue Gene.
Supercomputer expert Cray and Intel have entered a multi-year agreement on high-performance computing, a deal that seems to leave rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in the lurch.
It's getting hard to keep a place on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers.
The world of massive computing power used to belong solely to the big players -- but thanks to Linux clustering, smaller firms are now getting in on the act.
In the world of processors, attention seems firmly focused on the fast-paced desktop and mobile markets. But that doesn't mean that there's nothing going on in server-land.
Nicholas Negroponte is a man on a mission. As Chairman of the One Laptop per Child program (OLPC), he has big plans ahead of him: to help eliminate poverty through education, via US$100 laptops distributed to the world's poorest children.
It's getting hard to keep a place on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers.
Advanced Micro Devices is looking to drum up support for its forthcoming 64-bit Opteron server chip.
Advanced Micro Devices has released prospective performance benchmarks for its upcoming server chip Opteron, and it appears the chip could land near the head of its class.
Complacency is not a strategy for long-term growth. Thus, according to Bill O'Brien, Intel is keeping watch as AMD's hammer technology makes inroads into the server market.
Advanced Micro Devices is aiming to release a new generation of desktop and notebook chips on Sept. 22, according to an internal document inadvertently released by the company.
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