IBM on Friday talked up its Blue Gene/L supercomputer, the first module of which is a relatively small, dishwasher-size machine that can perform 1.4 trillion calculations per second. The performance ...

Blue Gene/L supercomputer is added to a program that rents processing power, Big Blue is expected to announce Friday. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

IBM will install a second Blue Gene/L supercomputer as part of a radio telescope project in the Netherlands, the company said Monday. As first reported by CNET News.com, the supercomputer will be used ...

Big Blue sells a multimillion-dollar model of its new Blue Gene/L supercomputer to simulate the workings of the human brain. Images: Mapping the neocortex Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Last May, IBM’s Deep Blue edged world champion Garry Kasparov in a six-game match with $700,000 to the winner and $400,000 to the loser. He promptly cried foul, called it a fluke and demanded a ...