Even as IBM directs attention to the arrival of its Blue Gene/L supercomputer, the company is quietly preparing a new twist on an older technology that will let it more directly compete with rivals such as Cray and NEC.
A Chinese supercomputer, the Dawning 4000A, is expected to rank high on an upcoming list of the fastest machines, underscoring geopolitical effects of a new approach to high-performance computing.
A fast, new method for connecting computer chips could arrive in the next four years, a top chip engineer for Sun Microsystems said Monday in the US.
IBM and Intel have edged ahead on a quickly changing list of the 500 fastest supercomputers.
With its next version of the Solaris operating system, Sun Microsystems plans to take a new direction with its technology to divide a server into a large number of independent partitions.
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.
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