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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.
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.
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 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 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.
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 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).
IEEE Spectrum February 2011 Peter Kogge	Next-Generation Supercomputers Supercomputers are now running our search engines and social networks. But the heady days of stunning performance increases are over
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 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.
InternetNews September 29, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Google is NASA Bound The search giant and the U.S. space agency will work together to combine biotech, infotech, and nanotechnology for better data management.
CIO September 29, 2010 Stephanie Overby	Cloud Computing: For NASA, An Open-Source Cloud Isn't Rocket Science NASA's Nebula open-source cloud computing initiative offers quick infrastructure provisioning. Other services, including a development platform, are in the works, and could potentially save taxpayers millions.
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 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 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 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 November 17, 2005 David Needle	Intel Developer Tools Target Clusters Intel released five software development tools for the creation of distributed applications used in high-performance computing clusters.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2009 John McHale	NASA Uses Simulation Technology to Evaluate Fighter Pilot Performance Engineers at the NASA Ames Research Center are creating scientific methods for evaluating fighter pilot performance through flight simulation.
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.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Joshua J. Romero	Mars For The Rest Of Us Better cameras, greater bandwidth, and bigger displays put Mars within reach of armchair explorers and by maximizing what can be done from the ground NASA can make Mars exploration politically sustainable and financially worthwhile.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 John Keller	Global Hawk UAV Goes to Work for NASA to Monitor Environmental Conditions on Earth NASA is operating two Global Hawk UAVs for environmental Earth observation.
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.
InternetNews June 2, 2010	Nvidia Shines in Top 500 Supercomputer List A new supercomputer powered by Intel processors and Nvidia GPUs takes the lead spot in the Top 500 peak performance rankings.
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.
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.
Popular Mechanics November 16, 2009	The Retirement of the Space Shuttle--And What's Next for NASA We look back at coverage of the technology behind the Constellation Program and the development of the International Space station as well as news surrounding the Space Shuttles
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.
Geotimes June 2004 Naomi Lubick	To Mars and Beyond The President's Commission on the Moon, Mars and Beyond presented its recommendations to the administration Wednesday morning, on how to proceed with the president's sweeping plan for future space travel.
PC Magazine September 28, 2005 Sebastian Rupley	Nanotech and NASA NASA is stepping up its attention to manipulating atoms and designing molecule-size machines.
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 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 January 11, 2007 Clint Boulton	SGI to Resell Microsoft Server Goods SGI has agreed to offer Microsoft's high-performance computing operating system on its cluster servers, a deal geared to boost both companies' sales in the HPC space.
InternetNews March 5, 2004 Colin C. Haley	IT's Final Frontier Private IT firms -- especially networking, security and chipmakers -- must play a critical role in NASA's moon and Mars missions, experts say. What's more, NASA has to let them.
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.
Popular Mechanics February 2009	NASA & Its Discontents: Frustrated Engineers Battle with NASA over the Future of Spaceflight The economic crisis, growing tensions with Russia and political change in Washington are already prompting calls to rewrite the space agency's plan.
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.
Popular Mechanics May 26, 2009 Joe P. Hasler	Is America's Space Administration Over-the-Hill? Next-Gen NASA Forty years ago most of NASA's employees were fresh out of college. Today, less than 20 percent are under the age of 40. As the baby boomers retire, who will get astronauts back to the lunar surface?
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.
Geotimes July 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Discovery Returns to Flight The space shuttle Discovery and its seven member crew lifted off, successfully returning NASA to flight after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus. The launch follows a 13-day delay after a faulty fuel sensor halted the first launch attempt during countdown.
InternetNews March 25, 2004 Clint Boulton	IBM Edges Out Dell, EMC for Research Cluster Big Blue will provide servers and storage to a university researching cures for major diseases.
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.
Scientific American July 2005 Mark Alpert	Feeling the Pinch Voyager 1, now speeding out of the solar system after 28 years in space, is one of the NASA missions facing budget cuts, even though the craft is reporting remarkable discoveries.
Popular Mechanics January 27, 2010 Joe Pappalardo	What Happens If NASA's Constellation Program Dies? Reporters at the Orlando Sentinel created a stir today by breaking news -- citing anonymous sources -- that President Barack Obama's budget will not include any funds for hardware for NASA's human space flight program.
InternetNews December 19, 2006 David Needle	Google Reaches Far Out For Users Google announced it signed a Space Act agreement with NASA Ames Research Center.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2008 Courtney E. Howard	NASA Upgrades Voice and Data Systems The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Washington has upgraded its data handling and communications systems with some of the latest technology innovations, including voice-over-IP (VoIP).
BusinessWeek June 17, 2010 Bruce Einhorn	China: Dawning's Plans for Its Loongson Chip Dawning wants its new super-fast chip to help China speed up its use of domestic chips in supercomputers, and ultimately to sell more to other companies.
InternetNews February 15, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner	SGI Gets Deeper Into Linux Networx Barely out of bankruptcy itself Silicon Graphics acquired troubled high-performance computing vendor Linux Networx.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2009 John McHale	Human Space Flight Gets Increase in 2010 NASA Budget Request NASA human space exploration programs, such as the Constellation program to return to the moon, receive increases in the 2010 NASA budget request, while space shuttle funding dwindles as NASA officials plan to retire the fleet in 2010.
InternetNews November 16, 2009	Intel Unveils Plans for Six-Core Nehalem-EX High-end Xeon processor was previously announced as an eight-core processor, but Intel branched out.