AOL runs about 60,000 servers, Manos said, which are spread across five primary data centers in North America and Europe. "We're talking about dramatically reforming what was one of the world's largest Internet companies," said Manos
NCSA and Cray announced that they have finalized a contract with the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) to provide the supercomputer for the National Science Foundation's Blue Waters project.
Japan's K Computer defended its number one spot in the new Top 500 ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputer, increasing from 8.162 petaflops to 10.51 petaflops per second.