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In
a historical first, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) supercomputer has broken
through the landmark barrier of one petaflop - or one quadrillion floating
point operations per second. The feat
was... Read more...
IBM is holding steady as the top maker of supercomputers, and is hanging onto its current top spot with IBM its IBM BlueGene/L system housed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore... Read more...
The federal government is turning its attention, and its money, to supercomputing. The government hopes to build supercomputers that break the current barriers in terms of computing speed, far... Read more...
Right on the heels of the infamous data loss at the Veterans Affairs agency comes the disclosure that the Department of Energy has been hacked, with the thief taking the social security numbers... Read more...