Comments on: Supercomputing: Now Less Super, More Computing

By: The Feds Want Faster, Greener Supercomputers : Cloud Computing News «

The Feds Want Faster, Greener Supercomputers : Cloud Computing News « — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:13:55 +0000

[...] breached the petascale barrier back in 2008 with IBM’s Roadrunner and Cray’s Jaguar performing more than a million billion [...]

By: How Will We Keep Supercomputing Super? » Shai Perednik.com

How Will We Keep Supercomputing Super? » Shai Perednik.com — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:20:24 +0000

[...] that make up a supercomputer — from the types of processors used to the networking cables — are the same as those used in everyday corporate computing. As the chart makes clear, the number of different processors used to build supercomputers has been [...]

By: How Will We Keep Supercomputing Super?

How Will We Keep Supercomputing Super? — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:57:15 +0000

[...] make up a supercomputer — from the types of processors used to the networking cables — are the same as those used in everyday corporate computing. As the chart makes clear, the number of different processors used to build supercomputers has been [...]

By: Ahley

Ahley — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:01:53 +0000

Its hard to believe that machines with such enormous speed can believe. But there are things happening in seconds that we never ever dreamed of. Hoping such things can help us to evolve more.

By: On the Block: SiCortex’s DeLorean-Style Green Supercomputer

On the Block: SiCortex’s DeLorean-Style Green Supercomputer — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:01:34 +0000

[...] against SiCortex as well. In general, supercomputers have moved from being proprietary systems to open systems built using commodity hardware and open-source software. Supercomputers are now defined by their jobs, not their hardware. While [...]

By: IBM’s Cell Chip Gets Another Home: TV - GigaOM

IBM’s Cell Chip Gets Another Home: TV - GigaOM — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:47:23 +0000

[...] for the Sony Playstation 3, is taking on even more duties. After its starring role in the PS3, it co-starred with some AMD x86 chips in RoadRunner, the fastest supercomputer ever built. Meanwhile, engineers started putting it in blade servers for [...]

By: Nvidia to Offer Its Chips in the New Cray Desktop - GigaOM

Nvidia to Offer Its Chips in the New Cray Desktop - GigaOM — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:22:18 +0000

[...] which runs a new version of Microsoft Windows, is a testament to both the demand for and the democratization of computing power. Indeed, people who earlier might have turned to grids or supercomputers for their problems are [...]

By: Supercomputers: Now Less Super, More Computer

Supercomputers: Now Less Super, More Computer — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:07:59 +0000

[...] The last time the world got so excited about supercomputers was in 1996 when a machine built by Intel and Sandia National Labs called ASCI Red breached the 1 teraflop level. Teraflops, are so 20th century for now we are all getting jazzed up about IBM’s $100 million Roadrunner computer that recently broke the Petaflop barrier to become the fastest supercomputer … ever. Stacey Higginbotham gives a short history of supercomputers and discusses about current Cell-based Petaflop supercomputer. Full Story [...]

By: casualinfoguy

casualinfoguy — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:14:25 +0000

Microsoft is doing an incredible job creating a general programming framework for implementing parallelized, multithreaded applications in their Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR). I worked at Microsoft, but don’t take my word for it: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Concurrency-and-Coordination-Runtime/ & http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163556.aspx

By: IBM and Intel are the Big Winners in the Top 500 - GigaOM

IBM and Intel are the Big Winners in the Top 500 - GigaOM — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:07:28 +0000

[...] has put out its twice-annual list of the fastest supercomputers, and there are few surprises. Roadrunner, IBM’s mammoth supercomputer that broke the petaflop record, holds the top spot. Big Blue is also the source of the lion’s [...]

By: Supercomputers Get Eco-Aware « Earth2Tech

Supercomputers Get Eco-Aware « Earth2Tech — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:12:41 +0000

[...] of the world’s fastest supercomputers as measured by the Top 500 nonprofit. This year it was IBM’s $100 million Roadrunner machine, which can reach speeds of 1 petaflop (about 1,000 trillion calculations per second). It [...]

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:39:24 +0000

Breki, Nima, the software issue has not gone unnoticed. We’ve got something coming up on that topic soon.

By: Breki

Breki — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:38:48 +0000

Yeah, I was going to say – with processors this powerful and computers this fast, won’t the actual software start limiting functionality?

By: Jeff Stemler

Jeff Stemler — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:30:38 +0000

A virtualized HPC solution for building supercomputer capability with industry standard x86 systems, the ScaleMP vSMP Foundation solution currently supports 128 core and 1TB memory in a single system image.

By: Nima

Nima — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:54:16 +0000

Don’t underestimate the software guys, functional languages and programming paradigms that allow for highly concurrent operation are experiencing a rebirth in all different sectors of the software ecosystem and its already begun to spill over into ‘mainstream’ languages & frameworks. All those brains over time usually end up innovating.

By: Jose Miguel Cansado

Jose Miguel Cansado — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:20:54 +0000

The Roadrunner has officially broken the Petaflop mark, but Google Search might be running at several Petaflops for some time already. See link:

http://tech-talk.biz/2008/06/09/ibm-supercomputer-sets-record-or-rather-not/