Archive for June, 2007
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
IBM Petaflops but Sun Will Next Year
Are there awards for least informative headlines? Just wondering.
Anyhow, supercomputer rankings came out today, and yet again IBM tops the list.
HP has passed IBM in the number of supercomputers in operation and enjoys the largest market share, according to a list of the Top 500 supercomputers that was compiled by university computer […]
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
IBM’s Fortran Turns Fifty
The programming language Fortran celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. In 1957 IBMer John Backus and his team released their Fortran compiler, IBM model 704. The goal of this development was to reduce the cost of programming scientific applications by providing an ‘automatic programming system’ to replace assembly language with a notation closer to […]