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In May 1962, the first Control Data Corporation CDC 3600 was installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The 3600 was a step in a plan for an orderly transition to the CDC 6600. The CDC 3600 had 32,700 48-bit words of memory and supported the FORTRAN 66 compiler and storage cycle times ranging from 1.5 microseconds to .8 microseconds. Its circuitry was designed by Seymour Cray, who went on create his own line of Cray computers.
IBM announced that Blue Gene/L supercomputer is the fastest in the world for the fourth consecutive year, according to the official TOP500 Supercomputer Sites:
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IBM innovated to develop a Disruptive Technology, which was also presented at SC07:
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Current commentary and news:
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IBM invests significant resources on understanding the needs of its markets and addressing them with a complete solution. Their web site and market approach was Benchmarked by Turner DeVaughn in advance of SC07:
www.turnerdevaughn.com/benchmark/ibm.html
It illustrates an understanding of the importance of creating value and fundamental changes foster the semantic web.
The company also engages in research and thought leadership. Web 2.0 is a significant reason why IBM predicts the end of advertising as we know it:
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The Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) Centennial Gala, held Friday, October 20, in Aberdeen was the culminating event of a year-long celebration of APG’s 100th Anniversary. Approximately 780 people attended the Cabaret-themed event, which featured live music, a casino, dancing, comedy, fireworks, acrobats and other performers, and an After-Party at the Speakeasy. Merritt Property, which manages the Aberdeen Corporate Park on route 22 next to the Target store, donated the use of the 90,000-square foot building for the event. U.S. Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger, MG Randy Taylor, local and state elected officials, and senior Army officials were in attendance, as were hundreds of members of the Harford and Cecil County communities.
The Gala was hosted by the APG Centennial Celebration Association, which is working to establish the APG Discovery Center in Aberdeen. This facility will house an interactive STEM educational space for learners of all ages to experience science and technology through hands-on exhibits and demonstrations.
During 2017, the APG community hosted over 150 events during 2017 to commemorative APG’s 100-year history. The Live Fire, the APG Memorial dedication, the Rosie the Riveters movie, exhibits at the college and libraries, historical talks and presentations, and Science Cafes.
Bravura Information Technologies was the presenting sponsor of the event. Additional funding was provided by Harford County Office of Economic Development, APG Federal Credit Union, SURVICE Engineering, Harford Community College, AFCEA, IRA, Association of Old Crows, Tenax Technologies, Northeastern Maryland Technology Council, Veteran Corps of America, Profile Partners, Leidos, Cray Supercomputers, CACI, ManTech, Jacobs, Adams Communication, Booz Allen, Camber, Jones Junction Greater Harford Committee, Signatech, Cecil College and many more businesses.
At Argonne National Laboratory, the panel underneath MIRA is inspected the cooling devices and wiring that will keep the supercomputer running.
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Moon Shot first annual report, October 18, 2013 at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. President Dr. Ronald DePinho and announced that it has contracted with IBM to tap the supercomputer's brainpower known as "Watson" as part of its Moon Shots program, now in its second year, to dramatically reduce the death rates of eight difficult cancers. James Allison Ph.D tours an immunology laboratory at SCRB.
A team led by Leonid Zhigilei from the University of Virginia used the OLCF’s Titan supercomputer to gain deeper insights into laser interactions with metal surfaces. This image shows homogenous boiling (a phase explosion): Liquid superheated to ~90% of the spinodal temperature rapidly decomposes into vapor and liquid droplets.
Image credit: Zhigilei team/UVA, Hernandez/ORNL
Read more: www.olcf.ornl.gov/2017/03/28/researchers-shoot-for-succes...
Read about how Ugo Piomelli is using supercomputers to solve the complex and dynamic problems of turbulence in the latest issue of (e)AFFECT.
A living supercomputer, the Master Brain travels between the stars, creating an army as it approaches planet after planet, conquering all in its path.
This was originally part of the Mighty Max Vs. Droid Invader set... eh, the rest of it is nothin' special.
17/07/2025. Bristol, United Kingdom. Secretary of State Peter Kyle switched on Isambard-AI, the UK's most powerful supercomputer housed at the University of Bristol. Picture by Alecsandra Dragoi / DSIT
Moon Shot first annual report, October 18, 2013 at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. President Dr. Ronald DePinho and announced that it has contracted with IBM to tap the supercomputer's brainpower known as "Watson" as part of its Moon Shots program, now in its second year, to dramatically reduce the death rates of eight difficult cancers. James Allison Ph.D tours an immunology laboratory at SCRB.
The IBM 701 computer was delivered to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in April 1954. The Univac-1 was a simple computer to program in machine language; however, the IBM 701 was more difficult to use—one reason was its reliance on punch cards for input and output. Programmers in companies and laboratories that owned 701s talked among themselves informally, and various “home-brewed” systems resulted. IBM soon began to develop a higher-level language, FORTRAN (formula translation), and the Laboratory sent Robert Hughes to IBM for an extended visit to contribute to the effort. The original FORTRAN manual lists four contributors, one of them Robert Hughes.
THE CATALYST HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC) CLUSTER IS A RADICALLY DIFFERENT SUPERCOMPUTER.
Developed in partnership with Intel and Cray, Catalyst was architected to provide a proving ground for new HPC and Big Data technologies.
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This is the ETA 10 (designed and built by a subsidiary of Control Data). It represents the dying gasp of the era of big mainframe supercomputers.
You can't see the actual CPU - it was mounted in a tank of liquid nitrogen on the left (to which the labels were affixed shown here) Without the "skins" on it, I would never have recognized this machine except for the labels on it.
NERSC CRAY EDISON SUPERCOMPUTER CLUSTER AT THE OAKLAND SCIENTIFIC FACILITY.
Edison is a Cray XC30 with peak performance of 2.57 petaflops/second, 133,824 compute cores, 357 terabytes of memory and 7.56 petabytes of disk.
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In the 1970s, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's researchers worked in state-of-the-art computer facilities that included a digital computer system for data acquisition and process control system development.
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Purple and blue helices, yellow ribbons and turquoise coils form the backbone skeletal structure of the human multi-drug resistance protein. A newly identified inhibitor binds to one of the pump’s two ATP binding sites (dark blue). Full story.
(Credit: John Wise, SMU)
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory unveiled Summit as the world’s most powerful and smartest scientific supercomputer on June 8, 2018.
With a peak performance of 200,000 trillion calculations per second-or 200 petaflops, Summit will be eight times more powerful than ORNL’s previous top-ranked system, Titan. For certain scientific applications, Summits will also be capable of more than three billion mixed precision calculations per second, or 3.3 exaops. Summit will provide unprecedented computing power for research in energy, advanced materials and artificial intelligence (AI), among other domains, enabling scientific discoveries that were previously impractical or impossible.
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SMU biologists Pia Vogel and John Wise in the SMU Department of Biological Sciences are using the computational power of the SMU high-performance supercomputer to screen millions of drug compounds to find one that will aid in the fight against recurring cancer. Full story.
(Photo: Hillsman Jackson, SMU)
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory unveiled Summit as the world’s most powerful and smartest scientific supercomputer on June 8, 2018.
With a peak performance of 200,000 trillion calculations per second-or 200 petaflops, Summit will be eight times more powerful than ORNL’s previous top-ranked system, Titan. For certain scientific applications, Summits will also be capable of more than three billion mixed precision calculations per second, or 3.3 exaops. Summit will provide unprecedented computing power for research in energy, advanced materials and artificial intelligence (AI), among other domains, enabling scientific discoveries that were previously impractical or impossible.
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Former Member of Parliament and grandson of Sir Winston Churchill adds his name to the list of politicians, researchers, industry leaders, and distinguished lecturers who have visited the OLCF.
Image credit: ORNL
17/07/2025. Bristol, United Kingdom. Secretary of State Peter Kyle switched on Isambard-AI, the UK's most powerful supercomputer housed at the University of Bristol. Picture by Alecsandra Dragoi / DSIT
The computers — called Luna and Surge — are located at computing centers in Reston, Virginia and Orlando, Florida. They are now running at 2.89 petaflops each for a new total of 5.78 petaflops of operational computing capacity, up from 776 teraflops of processing power last year.
This one tile can do 9 quadrillion floating point calculations per second, optimized for AI training. I saw it up close today.
Each 15kW tile holds a 5x5 array of blocks, each with 12 D1 multi-chip-module stacks, with RF shielding between them. These are custom AI chips by Tesla, with 362 teraFLOPS per block. Connectors around the perimeter provide 36Tb/s of inter-tile bandwidth.
The Dojo ExaPod supercomputer has 120 of these tiles, for 1.1 exaFLOPS of AI-optimized compute.
NERSC CRAY EDISON SUPERCOMPUTER CLUSTER AT THE OAKLAND SCIENTIFIC FACILITY.
Edison is a Cray XC30 with peak performance of 2.57 petaflops/second, 133,824 compute cores, 357 terabytes of memory and 7.56 petabytes of disk.
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Comparing cultural variation two Manga titles - page level.
Each visualization shows 1048576 Manga pages.
Each page represented as a point.
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To create visualizations, we measured each page separately on NERSC supercomputers and plotted the results:
X axis - brightness mean
Y axis - entropy
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In the middle graph, red points are pages from "Captain Tsubasa" (artist: Takahashi Yoichi)
The graph on the right, red points are pages from "Anatolia Story (artist: Chie Shinohara)
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These visualizations demonstrate how cultural analytics allows to analyze and map variability of cultural artifacts (in this case, stylistic variability). The books belonging to Captain Tsubasa have less visual variability than the books of Anatolia Story. Additionally, their distributions have different shapes. While the books of the former all cluster together, the books of the latter form two distinct clusters.