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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 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).
InternetNews June 22, 2006 David Needle	Supercomputer Breaks Speed Record IBM's BlueGene/L gets bragging rights to another speed record.
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.
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 June 13, 2005 Clint Boulton	IBM Delivers Baby Brother For Blue Gene IBM released a companion to its fastest supercomputer that boasts a top speed of 91.29 teraflops
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 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 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 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 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.
IEEE Spectrum December 2005	Nuclear Testing Goes Virtual The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration officially dedicated two state-of-the-art supercomputers that should allow the United States' nuclear weapons arsenal to be kept in working order without the need for underground testing.
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.
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 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 September 7, 2004 Clint Boulton	IBM's Blue Gene Breaks New Research Ground The four-rack supercomputer system will map protein structures in the hope of manufacturing more effective drugs for humans.
PC Magazine October 11, 2006 Sebastian Rupley	Meep Meep! The fastest computer in the world is IBM's BlueGene/L supercomputer, code-named Roadrunner.
InternetNews July 22, 2005 Clint Boulton	IBM's Purple Supercomputer Tops Teraflop Mark ASC Purple program manager says the machine performed better than expected and will be up and running this year.
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.
PC Magazine August 2, 2006	Bits & Bites v25n14 IBM's brawny Blue Gene/L supercomputer is once again the world's fastest computer on the independently produced TOP500 list.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 June 6, 2005 Clint Boulton	Your Brain on Blue Gene IBM researchers and scientists in Switzerland will create a digital 3D model of the brain with Blue Gene.
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 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.
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.
InternetNews October 27, 2004 Michael Singer	SGI Takes Off With NASA Supercomputer NASA's "Columbia" uses 10,240 Intel Itanium-2 chips to best IBM's Blue Gene/L and NEC's Earth Simulator.
PC Magazine April 20, 2005 Sebastian Rupley	Speed Demon for Rent IBM is offering access to Blue Gene--the speediest of all supercomputers.
InternetNews June 23, 2009 Andy Patrizio	Top 500: Good Show for Nehalem, Germany, Arabia The TOP500 list of supercomputers is always a big deal in the never-ending quest for bragging rights among hardware vendors. For this latest list, the 33rd, Intel scored a big win.
InternetNews August 17, 2005 David Needle	IBM Donates Supercomputer Resources IBM and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory said they will provide significant enhancements to the computer capabilities available to scientific researchers around the world.
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.
The Motley Fool November 22, 2010 Gabriel Perna	IBM's Supercomputers Pass the Green Test IBM is No. 1 in efficiency.
InternetNews March 9, 2006 Clint Boulton	IBM: The Power of Purple Called Project Fastball, IBM and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory shuttled 102 gigabytes per second of sustained read and write performance to a single file using the ASC Purple supercomputer.
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 April 5, 2007 Andy Patrizio	PlayStation 3 Users Power on to Cure Disease Sony PlayStation 3 users have been cranking computer power to help Stanford University-sponsored project Folding@Home project achieve its goal: simulating protein misfolding in an attempt to understand disease.
The Motley Fool September 30, 2004 Brian Gorman	IBM Claims Computing Crown With BlueGene/L, the world's fastest computer, Big Blue has demonstrated once again that it not only invests in the latest technology, but that its research spending finds its way into practical applications that pay dividends for shareholders.
InternetNews February 2, 2010	Air Force Taps PS3s for Low-Cost Supercomputer The end result of using off-the-shelf hardware could be one of the fastest supercomputers in the world - and at a fraction of rivals' prices and energy costs.
PC Magazine October 27, 2004	Bits & Bites v23n20 Talking Head... More Than Meets the Eye... A Late Burst...
InternetNews May 10, 2006 Clint Boulton	Nanotech to Get Supercomputing Treatment IBM is teaming with the state of New York and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to pump $100 million into a supercomputing center dedicated to advancing nanotechnology.
InternetNews August 11, 2006 Clint Boulton	Grid Group Schooled on IBM Servers Twenty-seven universities will use IBM Unix servers to research anything from the human genome to coastal storms.
National Defense March 2011 Eric Beidel	In Global Supercomputing Race, China Moves to Front Of the Pack Supercomputers are critical for engineering simulations that lead to the creation of state-of-the-art weapon systems like the stealth aircraft that is now being developed by the Chinese. They help the military develop complex battle simulations.
PC Magazine December 9, 2003	The $40,000 Supercomputer Is a supercomputer still a supercomputer if it can sit on your desk? The answer may soon be yes.
InternetNews July 28, 2004 Clint Boulton	SGI Aims High with NASA Deal SGI's Space Exploration Simulator supercomputer is one of the largest Linux systems ever assembled, with 10,240 Intel Itanium processors.
Bio-IT World July 2005 Salvatore Salamone	New Blue Gene Project to Model the Brain IBM and a Swiss research institute have announced a joint research initiative dubbed the Blue Brain Project to create a 3-D model of the brain. To perform the simulations, the project will use a four-rack Blue Gene/L system that will deliver a peak processing of about 22.8 teraFLOPS (22.8 trillion operations per second).
National Defense March 2010 Austin Wright	An X-Ray Machine for Nukes The government is upgrading the X-ray technology that detects flaws in its nuclear weapons stockpile.
InternetNews June 26, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Cranking Up Supercomputing The annual supercomputing show will highlight performance improvements on every level, right down to the wires.
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.