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GREEN SUPERCOMPUTERS   |  Comment

Big Blue Meets Big Green With Its Supercomputers

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 97
Mon Jul 20, 2009 at 10:21 AM

Big Blue has morphed into Big Green. In the Green 500 list of super-powerful computing machines, IBM has snapped up 57 of the top 100 places. The Green list is a re-ordering of the famous annual Top 500 list of supercomputers in ...READ»

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Creative's 'Stem Cell' Chip: Media Supercomputing or Cell Processor Copycat?

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 90
Thu Jan 8, 2009 at 7:06 AM

Creative has been teasing a strange "stem cell" chip for a few weeks as part of its Ziilabs offshoot. Now we know that it's a crazy-powerful media-centred system on a chip, designed to be daisy-chained together into a "nano-sized" ...READ»

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MSFT and Cray Team Up For Home Supercomputer

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 60
Wed Sep 17, 2008 at 8:10 PM

This week, Microsoft [MSFT] announced a new partnership with Cray Computers [CRAY], makers of the well-known CRAY-2 supercomputer. The deal will result in a small, reasonably-priced Windows-based supercomputer meant for home power ...READ»

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British Climate Change Supercomputer Is Also a Super Polluter

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 44
Fri Aug 28, 2009 at 12:24 PM

Scientists already know that climate change has an impact on the environment, but what about the supercomputers that are supposed to predict climate change? It turns out the U.K.'s most powerful supercomputer, which also happens to be ...READ»