Category: News
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IBM Maintains Top Spot
From HPCwire article: IBM Maintains Top Spot on Supercomputer List November 17, 2008 IBM Maintains Top Spot on Supercomputer List ARMONK, N.Y., Nov. 17 — For a record-setting ninth consecutive time, an IBM system took the No.1 spot in the ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. The IBM computer built for the “roadrunner project” at…
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University of Toronto to Acquire Canada’s Most Powerful Supercomputer from IBM
System will process up to 360 trillion calculations per second, store 60 times more data than the Library of Congress Web archive, and be housed in an ultra energy-efficient data centre TORONTO, 14 August 2008: The University of Toronto’s SciNet Consortium and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced an agreement to build Canada’s most powerful and…