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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.
Yahoo has announced a program to encourage the development of software around distributed computing, with researchers from Carnegie Mellon University already signed up.
After years of delivering faster and faster chips that can easily boost the performance of most desktop software, Intel said the free ride is over.
The University of Queensland is to install a $4 million supercomputer as part of a project to develop a supercomputing consortium within the state.
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The general manager of Lotus software is a 22-year IBM veteran who was instrumental in IBM's Deep Blue supercomputing chess project. Now he's hoping to stay one move ahead of Microsoft.
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Intel says its processors are behind efforts to find new breakthroughs in life sciences research and healthcare in a number of countries.
IBM is shedding light on a program to create the world's fastest supercomputer, illuminating a dual-pronged strategy, an unusual new processor design and a leaning toward the Linux operating system.
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