Barcelona's MareNostrum isn't the fastest supercomputer on Earth, but 20 teraflops with regular blade servers is nothing to sneer at. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

IBM announced performance results Friday for a new Spanish supercomputer that won't top the company's Blue Gene/L machine but that does use more mainstream technology. Blade servers are thin machines ...

In its attempt to conquer the Intel server market, Big Blue is working on a new x445 32-processor server and, at the other extreme, a single-processor "blade" machine. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...