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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.
IEEE Spectrum August 2012 Steve Furber	Low-Power Chips to Model a Billion Neurons A miniature, massively parallel computer, powered by a million ARM processors, could produce the best brain simulations yet
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Samuel K. Moore	Winner: Multimedia Monster Cell's nine processors make it a supercomputer on a chip. Cell, which is shorthand for Cell Broadband Engine Architecture, is a US $400 million joint effort of IBM, Sony, and Toshiba.
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.
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InternetNews December 24, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Sun's Unwired Motherboard Plans Sun Microsystems is researching ways to make massive supercomputers even faster, including wireless connections between CPU and memory.
The Motley Fool November 22, 2006 Jack Uldrich	Do the Math: IBM Wins This supercomputer deal is about more than speed. Investors, take note.
Bio-IT World October 10, 2003 Salvatore Salamone	The 64-Bit Question New processors from Intel, AMD, and Apple/IBM offer more speed and access to much more memory. But upgrading involves more than wanting to go faster.
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.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Guizzo & Goldstein	Expressway To Your Skull PlayStation 3's ability to blast data between chips is one of the secrets to a mind-bending gaming experience. Sony has a lot staked on the success of the PS3 -- hundreds of millions of dollars, and maybe its future as the preeminent maker of consumer electronics.
Wired July 2001 Oliver Morton	Gene Machine IBM took a dare: Build a supercomputer that predicts the invisible process of protein folding. Spend $100 million, increase processing speed 100-fold, and revolutionize the field. Then convince the biologists it matters...
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.
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CFO November 17, 2003 Peter Krass	64-Bit Computing Moore is merrier: for power users everywhere, your chip has come in. The main advantages of 64-bit are faster computing and lower IT costs.
IEEE Spectrum August 2008 Philip E. Ross	A Computer for the Clouds A new proposed supercomputer would be able to model global climate while consuming far less electricity than a general-purpose machine.
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 November 22, 2006 Clint Boulton	National Security Brings The Big Bucks The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded IBM and Cray roughly $500 million Tuesday to develop supercomputers that run advanced computations at unprecedented speed and performance for national security.
InternetNews December 10, 2008 Andy Patrizio	We Can Compete in HPC, Say Chip Vendors Despite complaints that x86 chips can't scale properly for high performance computing, Intel and AMD say they have solutions in the works.
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InternetNews March 24, 2008 Kenneth Corbin	Yahoo, CRL Look to The Clouds For Computing Power With new research partnership, Yahoo taps one of the world's fastest supercomputers for cloud-computing projects.
PC Magazine February 3, 2004 Jim Akin	The 64-Bit Advantage The TeraGrid marks an evolutionary leap in clustering, in which relatively inexpensive commodity computers are combined to do work that once required superexpensive supercomputers.
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IEEE Spectrum June 2008 Neil Savage	Chip for Future Eye Implants Runs on Picowatts, Thanks to New Deep-Sleep Tech Chip could run for a year on millimeter-sized battery.
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 June 12, 2002 Debra Goldfarb	Biology: Antidote for HPC Blues The high-performance computing (HPC) market is unlike any other. Although it is a small, niche market, its influence is powerful and pervasive. Will bio-IT catalyze a revival in advanced computer architectures?
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Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 Ben Ames	FPGA companies will design supercomputer Over the next two years, the FPGA High Performance Computing Alliance, a group of technology companies and academics, will design and build an FPGA-based super computer capable of achieving processing speeds in excess of one trillion floating-point operations per second.
Bio-IT World January 13, 2003 John Russell	When Only Brute Force Will Do Listening to CEO Fred Hausheer talk about supercomputers, it's not always clear if BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals Inc. is a drug discovery company or high-performance computing play. Even its name suggests a mixed identity. But that's the point.
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.
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