Supercomputing and Parallel Computing

Pflops here; now what? (EETimes)

16 May 2008

A handful of engineers at a lab in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., have assembled what they expect will become--at least for a while--the world's most powerful computer.

Cray Doubles Size of One of World's Largest Supercomputers (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)

15 May 2008

Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. today announced that Oak Ridge National Laboratory has completed acceptance of an upgrade to its Cray XT4â„¢ system, taking the highly scalable supercomputer from 119 teraflops (one trillion floating point operations per second) to more than 260 teraflops. Already one of the world's largest high-performance computing (HPC) systems, the supercomputer, ...

Eka: The story of an Indian champion (CIOL)

15 May 2008

Sometimes it takes a trillion flops to make a Superhit. World’s fourth fastest supercomputer from India shocked everyone…pleasantly. But little do we know of the actual epicenter. Here’s some lowdown on what makes Eka a simple masterpiece!