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Supercomputer helps with cancer research
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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
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Stunt IT
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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
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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.

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