Supercomputing

Japan's hold on the top spot may be short-lived: International Business Machines Corp. is building a system to break the 10 quadrillion calculations per second barrier at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at University of Illinois.

Japanese Supercomputer Claims World's Top Spot Daisuke Wakabayashi 2011

"Under the terms of a Space Act Agreement, NASA will work closely with Intel and SGI to increase computational capabilities for modeling and simulation at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif."

Hey, What's All That Noise Outside The Gate? - NASA Watch 2009

Japan's hold on the top spot may be short-lived: International Business Machines Corp. is building a system to break the 10 quadrillion calculations per second barrier at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at University of Illinois.

Japanese Supercomputer Claims World's Top Spot Daisuke Wakabayashi 2011

"It can also serve the animation industry and bio-medical research," Liu Guangming, director of the National Centre for Supercomputing, told China Daily.

China's Tianhe-1A takes supercomputer crown from US Tania Branigan in Beijing 2010

Japan's hold on the top spot may be short-lived: International Business Machines Corp. is building a system to break the 10 quadrillion calculations per second barrier at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at University of Illinois.

Japanese Supercomputer Claims World's Top Spot Daisuke Wakabayashi 2011

NASA's Hyperwall 2 at its Advanced Supercomputing division in Mountain View, Calif., uses 128 screens.

Status Displays Brian Caulfield 2010

The high-profile project—called Blue Waters—is led by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, located at the university's Urbana-Champaign campus.

Cray to Take On Supercomputer After IBM's Exit Don Clark 2011

Supercomputing is particularly attractive because cost and power consumption are less of a focus for the users.

Intel to Buy Some QLogic Networking Assets Shara Tibken 2012

NASA's Hyperwall 2 at its Advanced Supercomputing division in Mountain View, Calif., uses 128 screens.

Status Displays Brian Caulfield 2010

IBM is building a system that aims to achieve such speeds for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois.

One Goal: 10 Quadrillion Calculations Daisuke Wakabayashi 2010