Mar 2, 2011
Deere suppliers on ground floor with manufacturing-supercomputer pilot program
Crain's Chicago Business
Small and mid-sized suppliers of Moline-based Deere & Co. will be among the Midwest manufacturers getting first crack at using supercomputers to speed up the design of components, under a White House initiative announced Wednesday. Deere, Lockheed Martin Corp. and General... |
Feb 17, 2011
Obama sets $126M for next-gen supercomputing
Computerworld
President Barack Obama has included funding in his 2012 budget proposal for development of the next generation of supercomputers, an exascale system. The money is going to the U.S. Department of Energy, which has led in developing the world's fastest computers.
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Feb 8, 2011
IBM Brings Supercomputing Muscle to U.S. Lab
All Things Digital
The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that it has cut a deal with IBM to bring a 10-petaflop supercomputer, named
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Feb 8, 2011
Argonne upgrades to super supercomputer
Chicago Breaking Business
Argonne National Laboratory will be using a new IBM supercomputer that can run 10 quadrillion calculations per second. Yes, quadrillion.The computer system will be operational in 2012, IBM said Tuesday, and is 20 times faster than Argonne
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Feb 8, 2011
10-Petaflop IBM Supercomputer Headed for Argonne National Lab
eWeek.com
IBM has announced that the U.S. Department of Energy
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Feb 7, 2011
Argonne Lab upgrading to world's fastest supercomputer
Crain
Argonne National Laboratory is about to get the fastest supercomputer in the world. The Darien-based lab will receive IBM Corp.'s fastest machine yet, named Mira, which will be capable of processing about 10 petaflops of information per second -- about 10 quadrillion a second --... |
Feb 7, 2011
Regional Report / Energy Dept. to use IBM's 'Blue Gene' supercomputer
TwinCities.com
The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory will use IBM's next-generation Blue Gene supercomputer, whose hardware was built in Rochester, Minn., IBM announced today. The $180 million IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer, named Mira, will be a 10-petaflop machine. It will... |
Dec 22, 2010
Energy research projects were on fire in 2010
Network World
The US Department of Energy awarded a massive amount of its world-class supercomputing time to 57 research projects looking at everything from biofuels and climate change to nuclear power and lithium air batteries. The DOE is awarding time on its Cray XT5 "Jaguar" at Oak Ridge... |
Dec 6, 2010
Exascale Technology and Computing Institute (ETCi)
Dr.Dobb's Journal
Renowned supercomputing expert Pete Beckman has been named director of a newly created Exascale Technology and Computing Institute (ETCi) at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. Working with scientists and industrial partners from around the world, the... |
Dec 2, 2010
Weekly Clean Energy Roundup
IBTimes
DOE is awarding time on two of the world's fastest and most powerful supercomputers: the Cray XT5 ("Jaguar") at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the IBM Blue Gene/P ("Intrepid") at DOE's Argonne National Laboratory. The awards include nearly 1.7 billion processor hours, the... |
