- Wed Aug 30 2000 Conoco hopes to hit oil with slick supercomputer
The oil company builds a Linux-based machine for finding oil and gas beneath the Earth's surface, saying it costs a tenth of the average price of a conventional supercomputer.
- Tue Nov 21 2000 IBM supercomputer to analyze objects in Earth's orbit
IBM wins a bid for a 320-processor supercomputer that will help the Air Force keep track of satellites, discarded rocket parts, and other miscellany orbiting the Earth.
- Thu Jan 22 1998 NEC supercomputer challenges U.S.
Japanese and American supercomputer makers are locked in a race to deploy new generations of the world's fastest computers.
- Mon Sep 20 2004 Sun begins pay-as-you-go supercomputing
For $1 per hour--per processor--customers can rent data-crunching power. Sun also has new servers on tap.
- Tue Nov 18 2008 Dell brings up the 80-core chip
During his keynote at a supercomputing conference, Michael Dell keeps 80-core processor in sight.
- Mon May 20 2002 BlueArc to weld Linux and Livermore Lab
The storage system maker is to provide the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with technology for its Linux-based supercomputing project.
- Fri Jan 16 2004 IBM lands storage deal in Ohio
The Ohio Supercomputer Center picks Big Blue technology to manage a large repository of research data, a move that boosts the company's storage "virtualization" efforts.
- Thu Jun 5 2003 IBM works on better storm warnings
With Atlantic hurricane season starting, the National Weather Service shows off a Big Blue supercomputer designed to let it warn about weather patterns sooner.
- Wed Aug 11 1999 Big Blue's machine helps predict blue skies
IBM delivers a supercomputer based on its Deep Blue technology to a national weather research service, making further inroads into this rarefied computer market.
- Thu Apr 15 2004 Universities, research centers retrench after hacks
Academic supercomputing labs continue this week to clean up Linux and Solaris servers targeted by unknown attackers, as law enforcement officials investigate.

