Latest TOP500 Stories

Force10 Networks(R), the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that its Reliable Networking product portfolio is integral to more than 30 percent of the top 40 most powerful supercomputers in the world, including the most powerful, according to the most recent Top500.org list. Los Alamos National Laboratory, home of Roadrunner, which ranked number one on the list, utilizes the Force10 TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers to anchor the supercomputer within...

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced its first Sun(TM) Constellation System-powered supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) captured the number four spot on the Top 500 Supercomputers list - the highest ranking system based on an open architecture. Demonstrating the pervasiveness of Sun technology on the list, Sun HPC software and storage also made strong showings on the list with Sun's Lustre(TM) file system managing data on six of the list's top 10 sites...

IBM's (NYSE: IBM) history-making hybrid supercomputer, built for the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Los Alamos National Lab, burned its way into the TOP500 Supercomputer record book today as the most powerful system in the world -- by a wide margin. Its sustained performance of 1.02 petaflops (1.02 quadrillion calculations per second) puts the system in a class of its own -- more than three times faster than the nearest non-IBM system. The official results were reported...

At the International Supercomputing Conference, AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced that its AMD Opteron(TM) processors have helped deliver many of the top performing supercomputers in the world. For the first time ever, AMD technology plays a role in the number one supercomputer in the world and this same processor technology that helps drive the number one supercomputer is also readily available for business and personal computing. "This current TOP500 list, with its first ever petascale...

Mellanox(R) Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ:MLNX) (TASE:MLNX), a leading supplier of semiconductor-based, server and storage interconnect products, today announced that its ConnectX 20Gb/s InfiniBand adapters and switch systems based on its InfiniScale switch silicon provide the leading, scalable, low-latency, high-performance interconnect for the #1 fastest supercomputer on the Top500, National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Roadrunner, the world's first Petaflop supercomputer. Built by...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Umea University announced today that the most powerful Windows-based computer in Europe is being installed at the supercomputer center known as HPC2N. Scientists at HPC2N will use the powerful system -- running on a beta version of Windows HPC Server 2008(R) -- for basic as well as applied research. The computer -- nicknamed "Akka" -- combines IBM Power(R) microprocesors and Cell Broadband Engines(R) with new energy-efficient Xeon(R) quad-core processors from Intel. Akka...

The Department of Energy (DOE) and IBM announced Monday that scientists at the Los Alamos government weapons lab have developed the world's fastest supercomputer, an IBM machine capable of 1,000 trillion operations per second. Codenamed Roadrunner, the supercomputer was built with components designed for Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3). The scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and IBM worked for six years to achieve the world record computer speed, which is double IBM's...

SAN FRANCISCO -- IBM increased its dominance in the market for supercomputers used to solve the toughest research problems, claiming half of the world's Top 500 supercomputers, while the share of Hewlett-Packard Co. fell sharply, according to a survey published on Wednesday. HP fell to 26 percent, or 131 of the most powerful supercomputers ranked in the semi-annual Top 500 List. That's down from 170, or 34 percent, just six months ago. IBM scored broad gains, with 259 machines or 51.8 percent...