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Department of Energy’s supercomputer breaks petraflop barrier

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...

DOE, IBM plan super duper supercomputer

On the heels of an announcement that it's still holding the top spot on the supercomputer list, IBM has... Read more...

IBM keeps supercomputer lead

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...

C&L: A way to determine job satisfaction

Are you satisfied in your current job? Are you being challenged? Those two questions and a few others are part of a handy Read more...

Need for speed spurs Federal computing investment

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...

Data breach revealed at DOE

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...