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Linux Hits Landmarks in Los Alamos Supercomputer Deals

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Los Alamos National Laboratory announced plans with system builder Linux Networx to build a Linux cluster supercomputer, using AMD Opteron processors, that will rank among the top 10 of the world’s fastest computers and will facilitate nuclear weapons research. Salt Lake City, Utah-based Linux Networx — which also scored a second deal for a smaller,…

Virginia Tech Building Power Mac G5 Supercomputer

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Using several new technologies and more than 1,000 dual-processor Power Mac G5 computers, Virginia Tech University is building a supercomputer cluster that is likely to rank among the fastest in the world. In addition to the G5 machines, the university said it is using a beta version of the latest release of OS X, new…

NASA Genesis Mission Returns with Piece of the Sun

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

In a dramatic ending that marks a beginning in scientific research, NASA’s Genesis spacecraft is set to swing by Earth and jettison a sample return capsule filled with particles of the Sun that might ultimately tell us more about the genesis of our solar system. “The Genesis mission — to capture a piece of the…

Big Blue to Build World’s Fastest Supercomputer

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

IBM is building a supercomputer capable of petaflop performance — 1,000 trillion, or a quadrillion, calculations per second — for the U.S. Department of Energy using a combination of more than 30,000 Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE) and AMD Opteron processors. The new supercomputer, dubbed “Roadrunner,” will be built for the National Nuclear Security Administration…

Military Secrets Discovered on Unprotected Web Sites

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Dozens of documents containing classified information that could affect the safety of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have been posted on unprotected servers by military agencies and related companies, according to a survey by the Associated Press. The AP, abetted by work done by Christopher Freeman, a Greensboro, N.C, resident who has been tracking…

Blue Gene/L: Still the One to Beat

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

IBM’s Blue Gene/L System once again ranks as the fastest computer in the world, coming in at first place on the TOP500 Supercomputer Sites, an organization that ranks the world’s most powerful systems. The results were announced Monday at the SC07 Conference, held in Reno, Nev. Located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a Department…

IBM Roadrunner Meep-Meeps to Top of Supercomputer Rankings

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

IBM claimed bragging rights Wednesday as its Roadrunner supercomputer earned the title of the world’s most powerful supercomputer. The ranking, bestowed during the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany, is a biannual event that ranks the 500 most powerful computers around the world. The Roadrunner, located at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National…

The Secret Lives of Supercomputers, Part 1

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Since the first supercomputers came online in the 1960s and ’70s, they have earned a reputation as high-powered workhorses helping researchers conduct complex calculations. Typically found at major universities and research facilities, the massive machines — which at one time could occupy more than an acre of space in a data center — were often…

Cold Fusion: It May Not Be Madness

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Cold fusion — the largely discredited science of making more energy from less — may be making a comeback. Controversial yet high-profile demonstrations in Italy last month purported to show a cold fusion device turning 400 watts of heat power into 12,400 watts. The eye-popping 31-fold increase — also known as an “excess heat effect”…

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