IBM’s Sequoia is now the world’s fastest supercomputer
June 19th, 2012 - 8:34 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, June 19 (THAINDIAN NEWS) IBM's Sequoia has overtaken the number 1 spot as the fastest supercomputer.
Fujitsu’s K Computer fell to second place on the list, which is released ... Read more...
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Over 300 use China’s fastest supercomputer
March 20th, 2012 - 1:53 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, March 20 (IANS) The number of registered users of China's fastest supercomputer has crossed 300, the authorities said.Companies from the US, Canada, Singapore and Sweden are among the users, ... Read more...
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A year of satisfactory space missions (2011 in Retrospect) (With images)
December 26th, 2011 - 2:13 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Dec 26 (IANS) Nine satellite launches, a policy for managing remote sensing data and commissioning of the country's fastest supercomputer -- India's space agency can look back at ... Read more...
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Japanese scientists claim to have built the world’s fastest supercomputer
June 20th, 2011 - 11:31 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Tokyo, Japan, June 20 (THAINDIAN NEWS) On Monday Japanese scientists announced that they have developed a supercomputer that they say is three times more powerful than the previous record holder. The supercomputer ... Read more...
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ISRO builds India’s fastest supercomputer
May 2nd, 2011 - 9:33 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, May 2 (IANS) State-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has built a supercomputer which is fastest in terms of peak performance of 220 teraflops (220 trillion floating point ... Read more...
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Chinese supercomputers to use homemade microchips
March 8th, 2011 - 9:34 am ICT by IANS
Beijing, March 8 (IANS) China-made supercomputers will stop using foreign microchips in 2011 and start using their own core components by the end of this year, one of the country's ... Read more...
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China stakes claim to have the world’s fastest supercomputer
October 29th, 2010 - 10:17 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Beijing, Oct 29 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Tianhe-1 has been named in China as the fastest computer in the country. The machine is capable of making an estimated 4,700 trillion calculations or more appropriately ... Read more...
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China Creates World’s Fastest Supercomputer
October 29th, 2010 - 9:49 pm ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
Oct 29 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The Chinese have stepped up to replace the United States as the maker of the world’s fastest supercomputer. At conference which was held at a research center in ... Read more...
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China makes world’s fastest supercomputer
October 28th, 2010 - 6:25 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Oct 28 (IANS) A Chinese scientific research centre has built the fastest supercomputer ever made, replacing the US as maker of the swiftest machine, a media report said Thursday.The Chinese made ... Read more...
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Combined PCs beat second fastest supercomputer in mapping Milky Way
February 15th, 2010 - 4:52 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Feb 15 (IANS) Legions of personal computers (PCs), engaged in a project to map the Milky Way, beat the world's second fastest supercomputer in sheer performance.
At this very moment, tens of ... Read more...
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An upgrade makes “Jaguar” the world’s fastest supercomputer
November 21st, 2009 - 1:13 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, November 21 (ANI): Reports indicate that an upgrade to a Cray XT5 high-performance computing system deployed by the US Department of Energy has made the "Jaguar" supercomputer the world's fastest.Located ... Read more...
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China unveils its fastest supercomputer
October 30th, 2009 - 12:21 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, October 30 (ANI): China has unveiled its fastest supercomputer, which at its peak speed can do more than one quadrillion calculations per second, known as a petaflop.The birth of the ... Read more...
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Indian-American uses supercomputer to make HIV evolutionary tree
October 28th, 2009 - 7:48 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, October 28 (IANS) Researchers are deploying 'Roadrunner', the world fastest supercomputer, to analyse vast quantities of genetic sequences from HIV infected people in the hope of zeroing in on possible vaccine ... Read more...
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World’s fastest supercomputer to create largest HIV evolutionary tree
October 28th, 2009 - 1:04 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, October 28 (ANI): Scientists are using the Roadrunner supercomputer, which is the world's fastest supercomputer, to analyze vast quantities of genetic sequences from HIV infected people in the hope of zeroing ... Read more...
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World’s fastest supercomputer to reveal secrets of ‘unseen’ universe
October 27th, 2009 - 2:47 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, October 27 (ANI): Scientists are using the world's fastest supercomputer to model origins of the unseen universe, namely, dark energy.Understanding dark energy is the number one issue in explaining the ... Read more...
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World’s fastest supercomputer does in minutes what it took months to calculate
November 18th, 2008 - 12:05 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Nov 18 (IANS) The world's fastest supercomputer called Jaguar, capable of quadrillion floating operations per second, has been housed at the Oak Ridge National Lab.The blinding speed of Jaguar can be ... Read more...
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Saudi varsity, IBM to build one of world’s fastest supercomputers
September 24th, 2008 - 6:07 pm ICT by IANS
Dubai, Sep 24 (IANS) Saudi Arabia's upcoming King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST) has announced it will build one of the world's fastest and most powerful supercomputers in collaboration with ... Read more...
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Sixty years of world’s first modern computer
June 20th, 2008 - 7:22 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 20 (IANS) Do you know that Saturday is the 60th birthday of the world's first modern computer? Manchester Baby, a computer that could store a programme, was built in Britain's ... Read more...
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US military makes world’s fastest supercomputer
June 9th, 2008 - 9:34 pm ICT by IANS
New York, June 9 (IANS) A US military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per ... Read more...
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Boeing to certify Indian supercomputer
April 16th, 2008 - 8:31 pm ICT by admin
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The Boeing Company said Wednesday it is partnering with Computational Research Laboratory (CRL), a subsidiary of the Tata Group, to test and validate one of the world's ... Read more...
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