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• Scientists Propose Climate Supercomputer With 20 Million CPUs
  Wednesday 7 May 2008 – 10:50 in Hardware
  In supercomputing, the sky is the limit, literally.
• The hidden potential in your graphics card: A supercomputer?
  Monday 18 September 2006 – 10:49
  The most powerful computing device in your PC may not be that dual-core processor, but your average graphics card. Interest in tapping the hidden processing power in graphics processor has been growing over the past two years, but Peakstream is the first company to actually offer a solution to create a supercomputer based on graphics cards.
• IBM BlueGene remains number one supercomputer
  Tuesday 13 November 2007 – 11:04 in Hardware
  The IBM BlueGene/L supercomputer is still the best in the world according to the latest Top 500 Supercomputers list.
• IBM still dominates supercomputer list
  Tuesday 15 November 2005 – 12:19
  IBM continues to dominate the supercomputing industry, according to the Top500 Organization's latest list of the most powerful computers in the world. Altogether, Big Blue's systems comprise 219 of the 500 systems included in the bi-annual survey.
• A $5300 PC Challenges A $4.6 Million Supercomputer
  Friday 30 May 2008 – 06:40
  Antwerp (Belgium) - Recent advances in general purpose GPU computing are beginning to shift perceptions in supercomputing applications.
• GPU supercomputer: Nvidia Tesla cards to debut in Bull system
  Wednesday 23 April 2008 – 09:20 in Graphics
  Paris (France) – French website PC Inpact delivered juicy details about a new supercomputer that is currently designed in France.
• Cray to build an almost-Petaflop supercomputer for the University of Tennessee
  Tuesday 8 April 2008 – 01:40 in Business
  The University of Tennessee (UT) has received a $65 million grant from the National Science Foundation Supercomputing for a next-generation computing system and will spend the money on a Cray system that is scheduled to go into operation next year.
• Linux to power world's largest single-OS supercomputer
  Tuesday 24 July 2007 – 10:23 in Business
  Sunnyvale (CA) – A new Linux box is scheduled to arrive this August at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at the Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA. But, this is no ordinary Linux box. What makes this new machine distinct is that it w
• AMD's Opteron shows muscles in supercomputer list
  Monday 13 November 2006 – 07:56
  The 28th list of the world's 500 most power supercomputers was published one day ahead of the official opening of the SC06 supercomputing conference. The top-10 of the list saw major changes, partially due to three new AMD Opteron systems, which are ranked in Position 2, 9 and 10. Extra: Image gallery
• SGI Makes Molecule Supercomputer From Intel Atoms
  Wednesday 19 November 2008 – 05:00
  Silicon Graphics (SGI) is showing off a concept supercomputer that could pack as many as 10,000 Intel Atom processors into a single rack. The name SGI gave the concept computer was fittingly cute as well, calling it the Molecule.
• IBM supercomputer powers "Virtual Climate Time Machine" at UC Irvine
  Tuesday 10 February 2004 – 07:55
  The University of California at Irvine (UCI) plans to install a new supercomputer to forecast and simulate the effects of global climate change up to 300 years into the future.
• IBM Roadrunner Remains World's Fastest Supercomputer
  Tuesday 18 November 2008 – 08:10
  According to the recently released list of the world's Top500 supercomputers, the title of world's fastest supercomputer goes to IBM's Roadrunner, located at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
• 504 TFlops 'Ranger' supercomputer now in operation
  Friday 22 February 2008 – 12:30 in Hardware
  The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin is now running the world’s most powerful supercomputing system for open science research.
• Nvidia Launches Tesla Personal Supercomputer
  Wednesday 19 November 2008 – 10:30
  Desktop supercomputers became a reality today as Nvidia announced the release of its new GPU-based Tesla personal supercomputer
• NCSA on track to build petaflop supercomputer
  Thursday 9 August 2007 – 10:57 in Business
  Indianapolis (IN) - The National Science Foundation (NSF) received notice today that the National Science Board (NSB) has approved a resolution granting the NCSA receive funding to build a petaflop supercomputer at their facility in Urbana, Illinois. If