The U.S. is once again home to the world's most powerful supercomputer, rebounding after it was knocked out of the top spot by China two years ago and Japan last year.The latest Top500
Published on: July 16th, 2012 Patrick Thibodeau @itbusinessca
An experimental Intel chip shows the feasibility of building processors with 1,000 cores, an Intel researcher has asserted. The architecture for the Intel 48-core Single Chip Cloud Computer (SCC) processor is "arbitrarily scalable,"
Published on: November 23rd, 2010 Joab Jackson @itbusinessca
For much of its existence, Woodward Governor Co. has been building fuel nozzles and other parts for jet aircraft engines the old-fashioned way -- carefully designing them, building physical prototypes out of raw
Published on: July 14th, 2010 Todd R. Weiss @itbusinessca
High-performance computing (HPC) has almost always required a supercomputer -- one of those room-size monoliths you find at government research labs and universities. And while those systems aren't going away, some of the
Published on: February 22nd, 2010 John Brandon @itbusinessca
When I think of a supercomputer, I still envision a monster box, its console ablaze with flashing lights. Alas, supercomputers are much duller today. In fact, according to top500.org, more than half of
Published on: October 20th, 2006 Lynn Greiner @lynngr
