MANNHEIM, Germany; KNOXVILLE, Tenn.; and BERKELEY, Calif.—In its third run to knock the IBM supercomputer nicknamed “Roadrunner” off the top perch on the TOP500 list of supercomputers, the Cray XT5 supercomputer known as Jaguar finally claimed the top spot on the 34^th edition of the closely watched list.

Sun’s Rock is dead; long live Rock Creek, Intel’s new experimental processor. Intel hopes for EU research funds – and for a friendlier new EU competition commissioner. AMD is going to talk about new deactivatable cores at the ISSCC conference.

HAMBURG, Germany, December 1, 2009 – ISC’10, the 25th International Supercomputing Conference urges all researchers seeking an opportunity to share their research results in the computing and scientific disciplines to submit their original work by Monday, January 11, 2010.

ISC’10 encourages papers reporting original work in theoretical, experimental and industrial research and development in the following areas:

Intel and AMD come to an arrangement and now AMD can cheerfully present new roadmaps without worrying about pesky patents. In return, problems arise between Microsoft and Intel. The Redmonders were actually planning to advice against the application of Nehalem Xeons under Windows Server 2008 R2.

You now can have all the TOP500 lists in the palm of your hand using the new TOP500 iPhone application available in the iTunes Application store.

The new application can be installed directly from the iPhone (search for TOP500) or using iTunes.

At the third attempt, it finally made it. The supercomputer at the National Center for Computational Science in Oak Ridge, named Jaguar, now tops the 34th TOP500 list of supercomputers with 1.759 petaflops. In the previous two lists, the Jaguar had already gotten quite close to list leader Roadrunner from IBM (the first system worldwide to break the petaflops barrier in summer 2008) – the difference was less than 4 percent Linpack performance.

The Chinese National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) recently unveiled China’s fastest supercomputer, also the World Fifth fastest computer, which is able to do more than one quadrillion calculations per second theoretically at its peak speed.

Gigantic 100-core chips are something we had actually expected from Intel and company, not from small start-ups, but, after all, the race for the many-cores has just begun. Meanwhile, the career of former AMD CEO Hector Ruiz has come to an early and scandal-ridden end.

The National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) unveiled Thursday China's fastest supercomputer, which could rival the world's most powerful computing devices.

The supercomputer, named Tianhe, meaning Milky Way, is theoretically able to do more than 1 quadrillion calculations per second (one petaflop) at peak speed.