Super Guzzlers?

Explore Relocate (Dec 15 2009) Supercomputer

...00 list, they still need vast amounts of energy to operate. Take for example, the Cray X5-HE at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It wolfs down 6951 KW. It comes in at Rank 44 on the Green500 list. Environmentally conscious peop......ost computer operations. Take a look at another Superguzzler in the pipeline – Blue Waters from the IBM stable. Blue Waters is scheduled to come online in 2011 at the ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Oak Ridge National Laboratory   IBM

Do SuperComputers Turn a Green Data Center Gray? By Doug Maloney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Dec 11 2009) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Supercomputer

...somewhere to go, which requires cooling and more dollars to the power bill. Exhibit A for this is IBM's Blue Waters supercomputer being built at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus, as r... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Doug Mohney   Oak Ridge National Laboratory   IBM

Ten of the Coolest and Most Powerful Supercomputers of All Time

Explore Pingdom web site monitoring blog (Jun 11 2009) Cloud Computing , Supercomputer

...ery clearly by their purpose (judging by this one and Fujitsu’s Numerical Wind Tunnel). Blue Gene/L IBM initially developed the Blue Gene family of supercomputers to simulate biochemical processes involv...... supercomputer that took over the performance crown from the Earth Simulator. Jaguar Located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, this Cray supercomputer is currently capable of 1.64 petaflops. The Jaguar has gone through severa... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Fujitsu   Europe   Intel