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IEEE Spectrum February 2005 Erico Guizzo	IBM Reclaims Supercomputer Lead The new breed of supercomputers brings technology advances that may ultimately trickle down to a variety of high-performance computers, thus benefiting not only big-bucks buyers like the Energy Department and NASA but many other organizations in need of serious computing horsepower.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2008 Courtney E. Howard	NASA, Intel, and SGI upgrade supercomputer, expand compute capabilities Experts at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Washington, Intel Corp. in Santa Clara, Calif., and SGI in Sunnyvale, Calif., are working toward significant increases in the computing performance and capacity of the space agency's supercomputer.
InternetNews November 8, 2004 Clint Boulton	IBM Sits Atop Supercomputer List As expected, IBM took over the top slot on the Top500 supercomputing list with a BlueGene/L system that shatters previous Linpack benchmarks at 70.7 trillion floating points per second (teraflops).
BusinessWeek January 17, 2005 Otis Port	Holy Screaming Teraflops After more than two years of playing second fiddle to Japan in supercomputers, the U.S. has clawed its way back to the head of the pack. IBM's Blue Gene is the world's fastest supercomputer, for now.
InternetNews June 22, 2005 Clint Boulton	IBM's Blue Gene Tops Supercomputer List Six of the top 10 world's fastest supercomputers are made by IBM. Intel chips and clusters are the top architectures.
InternetNews November 4, 2004	DoE, IBM Supercomputer Shatters LINPACK Test The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Thursday said that a BlueGene/L supercomputer built by IBM for nuclear arms research runs at a record 70.72 teraflops, making it the fastest computer on the LINPACK benchmark test.
InternetNews April 25, 2005 Clint Boulton	SGI Has 'Eagle' Eye for DoD's Defense SGI has sold the U.S. Department of Defense a supercomputer to help the agency simulate aircraft, weapon systems and battlefield scenarios more accurately than ever before.
InternetNews September 29, 2004 Clint Boulton	IBM's Blue Gene Claims Fastest Supercomputer Big Blue boasts the world's fastest supercomputer, soundly topping NEC's Earth Simulator in a Linpack test.
InternetNews March 24, 2005 Clint Boulton	IBM Supercomputer Shatters Own Speed Record Blue Gene/L now simulates the nuclear arms stockpile at more than 135 teraflops - nearly twice its previous record.
InternetNews November 14, 2006 Clint Boulton	Spot-Swap Among The World's Fastest Supercomputers IBM's BlueGene/L system is still king of the supercomputing heap, according to the 28th list of the world's 500 most powerful supercomputers.
InternetNews June 21, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Supercomputer Champ Remains (For Now) Japan's NEC still sits atop the annual list of machines with processing powers greater than 1 teraflop, whatever that is.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005	Sikorsky Designs Helicopters with SGI Servers Engineers will use the SGI computers to analyze digital prototypes in computer-generated wind tunnels and battle scenarios. Sikorsky deployed the SGI solutions to support computer-aided engineering design and analyses of current and future aircraft.
PC Magazine December 21, 2005 Sebastian Rupley	Super-Duper Computing The fastest computer on Earth, IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer, just got a whole lot faster.
InternetNews November 14, 2005 Clint Boulton	IBM Grabs Top 3 on Supercomputing List IBM machines take up three of the first 10 spots on the Top500 list.
InternetNews February 3, 2009 Andy Patrizio	IBM Plans 20-Fold Leap in Supercomputing Sequoia will be the same size as IBM's Blue Gene/L but 40 times as powerful.
InternetNews December 28, 2007 Andy Patrizio	SGI: Still Alive And Kicking SGI, the one-time darling of the special effects industry is now repurposed for supercomputing - and this might be the market that works.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006	Navy Models Explosions with SGI Computers Navy engineers needed powerful computers to model underwater explosions and assess the performance of new warhead designs. They found a solution with Altix servers and InfiniteStorage solutions from SGI.
InternetNews July 19, 2005 Clint Boulton	DoD Aims HP Supercomputer at Weapons Research The U.S. Department of Defense tabs Hewlett-Packard as its go-to systems vendor for a new cluster to study how to build new weapons.
Bio-IT World Dec 2006/Jan 2007 Salvatore Salamone	IBM Tops Supercomputing Top 500 List The IBM Blue Gene/L system retained the premier spot in the latest edition of the Top 500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers. But perhaps the trend that labs should be seizing upon is the rapid adoption of multi-core processors for high performance computing.
BusinessWeek June 7, 2004 Port & Tashiro	Supercomputing The race is on. Superfast computers are essential to high-level scientific research. Can the U.S. recapture the lead from Japan?
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2008 Courtney E. Howard	LSI Upgrades Sandia Supercomputer with Storage Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories are upgrading Red Storm, one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, with high-performance storage.
InternetNews November 18, 2004 Roy Mark	Congress OKs Funding U.S. Supercomputers Congress gave its final approval Wednesday to a high-performance computing bill that dedicates $165 million over the next three years to support U.S. development of the world's fastest supercomputers.
InternetNews May 8, 2006 Michael Hickins	SGI Seeks Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Silicon Graphics expects to reemerge from Chapter 11 quickly, but current shares will be worthless under the plan.
InternetNews November 8, 2004 Clint Boulton	IBM's Blue Gene Supercomputer is For Sale Fresh off the revelation that its top supercomputer has shattered LinPack performance records, IBM is offering its Blue Gene system for commercial businesses.
InternetNews June 27, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston	IBM Dominates Supercomputer List - Again Today, at the International Supercomputing Conference 2007 in Dresden, Germany, the Top500 group announced its latest list of the top 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world.
InternetNews November 12, 2007 Andy Patrizio	IBM Still Dominates Supercomputer List The TOP500 Supercomputer list is out and once again, IBM has bragging rights. Big Blue not only tops the list, it pretty much owns it.
InternetNews October 28, 2005 Clint Boulton	BlueGene/L Reaches Another Teraflop High The IBM-built BlueGene/L supercomputer performed at 280.6 trillion operations per second (teraflop) on the Linpack benchmark, shattering the previous high mark of performing at 135.3 teraflops.
InternetNews November 17, 2008 Andy Patrizio	AMD, HP Nab Wins in Supercomputer Rankings While AMD gets the top spots and HP surpasses IBM as the largest hardware provider, Intel continues to dominate the latest TOP500 list.
InternetNews March 11, 2005 Clint Boulton	Now Open: Blue Gene On Demand IBM will now offer supercomputing power on demand through a new center in Minnesota.
InternetNews November 16, 2009	Top Supercomputer Nearly Doubles in Speed Can a processor upgrade really yield those kinds of results?
Bio-IT World October 14, 2004 William Pulleyblank	Rewriting the Rulebook for Supercomputing and Research IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer project leader highlights progress and future applications.
InternetNews March 17, 2010	SGI Joins Xeon Lovefest With Origin Revival SGI, the vendor that grew out of Rackable Systems' acquisition of Silicon Graphics, has hopped on the Xeon bandwagon with a new line of x86 servers based on Intel's new Westmere technology.
Bio-IT World August 13, 2002 Salvatore Salamone	Think Blue ... Again: It's in the Genes IBM has big plans for a new petaflop supercomputer -- Blue Gene -- designed primarily for the life sciences.
PC Magazine October 27, 2004	Bits & Bites v23n20 Talking Head... More Than Meets the Eye... A Late Burst...
InternetNews August 3, 2004 Clint Boulton	IBM Inks Another Deal with DoD The systems vendor scores another multi-million-dollar contract to provide a Linux supercomputer for the defense department for the planning and creation of military defense systems.
InternetNews March 3, 2006 Clint Boulton	SGI Cuts 250 Jobs, CFO, COO Hungry to return to profitability after hemorrhaging cash for years, Silicon Graphics today said it would trim 250 positions and announced key management changes as part of a corporate restructuring.
InternetNews April 15, 2004 Clint Boulton	SGI Sheds Graphics Software Business Server company, looking for market share in the burgeoning Linux space, unloads high end graphics software unit.
Popular Mechanics March 2007 Jennifer Bogo	NASA Mission Statement Q&A: Eyes on Earth Interview with a professor involved in a study to find out how Earth scientists view NASA's shifting priorities and how it may affect the study of the planet.
PC Magazine April 20, 2005 Sebastian Rupley	Speed Demon for Rent IBM is offering access to Blue Gene--the speediest of all supercomputers.
InternetNews April 6, 2005 Clint Boulton	IBM Supercomputer to Help Volvo Avert Crashes The systems vendor will provide Volvo with 150 servers to perform crash simulations. The system is expected to become one of the automotive industry's fastest Linux clusters, based on systems listed on the Top500 Supercomputer list.
InternetNews September 23, 2008 Andy Patrizio	One Datacenter, One View, Says IBM New Systems Director works with Tivoli to manage all IBM hardware from one interface. Separately, the company spawns another supercomputer.
Bio-IT World December 15, 2004 Salvatore Salamone	IBM, SGI Earn Top Bragging Rights at SC2004 Conference BlueGene/L and Altix 1.5GHz, Infiniband place first and second respectively on the Top 500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers. However, bioscience problems remain.
InternetNews September 8, 2004 Michael Singer	Intel: Gaps in Itanium, Xeon Roadmaps At its developer forum, the chipmaker admits sales are not where it expected as it races into dual-core systems.
Geotimes May 2005 Naomi Lubick	NASA on Deck As NASA prepares for the first space shuttle flight since the Columbia disaster on Feb. 2, 2003, the space agency remains in a transition stage.
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Geotimes September 2005	Discovery Returns to Flight The space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off at 10:39 a.m. on July 26, successfully returning NASA to flight after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus.
InternetNews September 18, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Cray Launches a 'Consumer' Supercomputer The high performance computer is the size of a small refrigerator and packs nearly a teraflop of computing power. Best of all, it won't cost seven - or even six - figures.
BusinessWeek June 7, 2004 Otis Port	Fired Up for the Supercomputer Derby The Pentagon's Defense Advance Research Projects Agency contest to spur supercomputers to even more unthinkable speeds is down to three heavyweight contenders.
InternetNews May 12, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	U.S. To Build World's Fastest Computer Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratory wins bid for $50 million grant.