The NPACI Rocks software is being used at a host of academic and government sites, including Northwestern University, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Stanford University and the University of Macedonia.
Eighth place went to an HP system with 1,540 Itanium 2 processors at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Meanwhile, the number of systems based on Intel processors - mostly Xeons but now a handful of Itaniums as well- increased from 56 to 119.
IBM has claimed first place in a supercomputer speed competition with an expanded version of its Blue Gene/L, which beat out a Japanese machine from NEC but a new Silicon Graphics machine has a chance at giving Big Blue a run for the title.
That was the case for the p5-575's star customer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's ASC Purple, a supercomputer for predicting whether nuclear weapons will continue to work as they age. The p5-575 combines eight Power5 processors and as much...
IBM has added its Blue Gene/L supercomputer as a new option for a programme that lets customers rent processing power, the company is expected to announce on Friday. One customer for the Blue Gene/L system is QuantumBio, a start-up whose software...
That means it's second only to IBM's original Blue Gene/L system, the fastest supercomputer in the world, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and clocked at 135 teraflops. A second Blue Gene/L supercomputer has posted speed results...
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