IBM and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich plan to build a water-cooled supercomputer whose surplus heat will be re-used to heat the university's buildings. The Aquasar supercomputer will be located at the ETH Zurich facility, and it will start operations next year that is by middle of 2010. The supercomputer will combine two rack-mounted IBM BladeCenter servers, each containing multiple blades ...

Researchers  at Georgia Tech, the University of South Carolina, and the Pennsylvania State University have been employing Petascale Supercomputing Grids to analyze the evolution of organelles among organisms and study the evolutionary history. We’ve all known for several years now that the chimpanzees also share 96 ...

Outblaze, a Hong Kong based online messaging and collaboration services firm will be taken over by IBM. IBM is happy to announce the acquire of the outblaze assests. Last week, IBM announced "Outblaze" will be used in IBM LOTUS's Bluehouse project, which is an online business social-networking and collaboration service, which is in beta release.   With more than 10 years ...

IBM's Blue Gene project has resulted in a new frontier in the Super computing arena.  Blue Gene systems are being employed by scientists and researchers worldwide to find solutions and run applications for the benefit of the mankind.   Blue Gene systems are being extensively used to find out the mysteries behind Protein folding and  Molecular Dynamics....

The new Roadrunner supercomputer is the first such machine capable of executing more than 1 quadrillion (1,000 trillion) floating point operations per second, a computation rate otherwise known as 1 petaflop. Roadrunner - IBM's latest offing in the Super Computer arena tops the Top500 Super Computing list.  The 32nd edition of the list of the world’s TOP500 supercomputers was released on ...