IBM mainframe acquisition raises antitrust concerns
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Supercomputer seen helping to diagnose osteoporosis

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How power-hungry are the Top500 supercomputers?

IBM's Roadrunner zooms to No. 1 on Top500 supercomputer list

Microsoft releases near-final beta of HPC Server 2008

Top500: IBM Roadrunner hits new heights, Intel dominates

IBM Smashes Petaflop Performance Record

Los Alamos: Roadrunner as important as first computer

Windows dual-boots its way onto a Linux stage

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Supercomputer helps with cancer research
Designing new cancer drugs requires an understanding of the structure of proteins, with more than 90 million images to analyze and interpret.

Q&A: What Roadrunner's petaflop Top500 milestone is all about
The Top500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers passed a milestone Wednesday with the first system to achieve peak performance of 1 petaflop, or one quadrillion floating point operations per second. Erich Strohmaier, a computer scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, was one of the founding editors of the Top500 list back in 1993. He talked with IDG News Service about the performance gains the list has seen, the quad-core processors that are coming to dominate it and mistakes that can creep in when the list is put together.

Processing That Packs a Punch
Northrop Grumman's SuperCluster will enable scientists and engineers working on spacecraft design and other projects to perform complex computations on the massive amounts of data.

Stunt IT
Flashy, well-hyped IT projects -- stunts -- can have practical results, Frank Hayes observes.

Tales from the crypt: Our first computers
Computerworld editors share stories of their first PCs, including some classics and some real clunkers. Then we turn the tables and ask readers to share their early-PC tales.

Opinion: IGF — IBM's unseen competitive weapon
IBM Global Financing is a competitive threat because Big Blue uses it as a sales tool during the selling process, not just as an after-the-sale financing option.

Confessions of a Cobol programmer
Yes, Cobol is dying -- just not yet. In that gap, some wily coders see opportunity for a career, or at least a secure job.

'They Were Like Us'
Like our Iranian counterparts, if our government engaged in activity that resulted in trade sanctions being imposed against us, we'd work hard to overcome those obstacles too.

Unsung innovators: Jean Bartik, ENIAC programmer
Jean Bartik was a member of the all-female team that programmed ENIAC, a computer that calculated bullet trajectories during World War II.

Unsung innovators: Marty Goetz, holder of first software patent
Although Goetz sparked an argument over whether software patents should even be granted, his life's work has been about protecting software, he says.

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