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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- IBM will build a next-generation supercomputer for the U.S. Energy Department with the potential to achieve a sustained speed of 1,000 trillion calculations per second, or one petaflop, the department said on Wednesday. The new computer, dubbed "Roadrunner", will be built at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Congress provided $35 million in fiscal 2006, which ends on September 30, to launch the computer project. Roadrunner may eventually be used for an Energy Department program that ensures the U.S. stockpile of nuclear weapons is safe and reliable without the resumption of underground testing, the department...

IBM is to acquire security tools and services firm Internet Security Systems in an all-cash deal valued at $1.3bn, or $28 per share. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2006, subject to approval by regulators and ISS' shareholders. ISS markets a range of intrusion detection and vulnerability assessment tools and services designed to secure corporate networks. It competes with firms such as Symantec and Counterpane. NEC Computers, your accredited Catalist IT supplier IBM said bringing ISS into its fold will boost its IT services business, particularly in the area of managed security services. Following the...

"The similarities are almost eerie. This year, readers gave us the lowdown on over 13,000 desktop PCs—enough data to rate eight of the country's leading brands. And the final tally looks an awful lot like last year's survey results," Cade Metz reports for PC Magazine on "The 19th Annual Reader Satisfaction Survey." Metz reports, "This year, you diehard PC Mag readers detailed your experiences with nearly 20,000 PCs (notebooks and desktops) and more than 6,500 printers (from mono lasers to color ink jet all-in-ones). And what you say about the leading manufacturers isn't always what we'd expect. No big...

A single molecule, trapped between two electrodes, acts as a switch and has a ‘memory’ of the type used in data storage, Swiss and US researchers have found. Heike Riel of IBM’s research labs in Zurich says this is ‘a step along the way’ to making nanoscale electronic components a reality. Using single organic molecules as electronic components could allow researchers to miniaturise circuits far more than conventional techniques allow. They also avoid the interactions between the millions of molecules found in a standard transistor that can disrupt the conduction of charge. The scientists built their switch using a molecule...

IBM Corp. did not commit age discrimination when it changed its pension coverage in the 1990s, a federal appeals court ruled Monday in a case that Big Blue had agreed to settle for up to $1.4 billion if it had lost the appeal. The case involved 140,000 older employees who were affected when IBM converted to a "cash-balance" pension plan, which gives workers virtual accounts that can be cashed out for a lump sum when they leave the company. The plans are designed to be more attractive to younger workers who are more likely to switch jobs. But opponents say...

He'd wanted to be the next Dhanraj Pillai, but the vista that destiny opened up for A Mahesh led to greener pastures in the world of technology. The 24-year-old from small town Tamil Nadu has created a software that will add considerable muscle to Vista, Microsoft's brand new operating system due for launch next year. In all probability, Vista will incorporate Mahesh's creation, which is an image browser, image editor, web browser, system tools and disk manager rolled into one. In fact, Microsoft has already validated and awarded the product BETA2 iBRO.NET a patent protection certificate. This means anyone may...

On August 4th, we found out that Lenovo Group, the company that has taken over IBM's Personal Computing Division, had made a deal with Novell Inc. to preload SLED 10 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) on its ThinkPad T60p mobile workstation. For the first time, a major OEM (original equipment manufacturer) has committed to preloading a Linux desktop.

IBM servers use chips by AMD Sunnyvale company gets boost in battle with rival Intel Benjamin Pimentel, Chronicle Staff Writer August 2, 2006 ------------------------------------- IBM Corp. unveiled a line of business computers using Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Opteron microprocessor on Tuesday, giving another boost to the chipmaker in its rivalry with Intel Corp. Tom Bradicich , chief technology officer of IBM's systems and technology group, said the Armonk, N.Y., company has embarked on a major expansion of its relationship with AMD by introducing Opteron-based servers. The roll-out of five computer systems and blade computers follows the announcement in May by...

I have some pictures to show you. They should knock your socks off. They should knock SCO's socks off, too, and then they should knock a huge chunk out of SCO's case. I'm quite serious. Here is what three individuals have now written to me, with screenshots to prove what they have found: SCO is right now itself distributing the ELF headers files it is suing IBM over. They are available to the public with no legal notice, from SCO's FTP site, and furthermore, the license on the files is the GPL. Let me show you, please. First, let's review...

The SCO Group versus IBM lawsuit is growing ever more desperate--and ever more weird.The latest twist: Buried in a new filing from SCO (nyse: SCO - news - people ) is a claim that International Business Machines (nyse: IBM - news - people) destroyed evidence by ordering its programmers to delete copies of software code that could have helped SCO prove its case.SCO alleges this happened in 2003, yet the company has never talked about it in public before. However, an attorney for SCO says the code deletion is one reason why the Lindon, Utah, software maker has been unable...

'Help Defeat Cancer' Project Launched on IBM's World Community Grid Expected to Speed Cancer Research Thursday July 20, 9:09 am ET The Public Can Help Advance Cancer Research by Donating Idle and Unused Computer Time ARMONK, NY--(MARKET WIRE)--Jul 20, 2006 -- IBM is working with researchers at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey to launch a project that will unleash the power of supercomputer technology in the battle against cancer. Help Defeat Cancer is the third project to use the enormous computational power...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- International Business Machines Corp. (IBM International Business Machines News IBM ) on Tuesday reported a second-quarter profit from continuing operations of $2 billion, or $1.30 a share, compared to a profit of $1.85 billion, or $1.12 a share a year ago. Revenue fell to $21.9 billion from $22.3 billion a year ago, when the company had some sales from its now-divested personal-computer business. Analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call had forecast a profit of $1.29 a share on $21.89 billion in revenue. End of Story

SCO Group Inc has willfully failed to comply with the orders of the court hearing its breach of contact and copyright case against IBM Corp, according to the Magistrate Judge, who has declared the company's failure to detail its evidence against IBM 'inexcusable'.... "Given the amount of code that SCO has received in discovery the court finds it inexcusable that SCO is in essence still not placing all the details on the table," wrote Judge Wells. "Certainly if an individual was stopped and accused of shoplifting after walking out of Neiman Marcus they would expect to be eventually told what...

Tired of reading about America's retirement woes? Then I have an alternative for you: Watch a TV show about them. Heck, you don't even have to move to your TV -- you can watch it on your computer, from the comfort of your own desk chair. The particular program I'm talking about is an episode of the PBS series Frontline titled "Can You Afford to Retire?" Of course, since you've clicked on this article, you can't be too tired of reading about all of the impending retirement woes out there, so let me sum up the program's main points and...

BM (IBM:NYSE - commentary - research - Cramer's Take) will further expand its presence abroad by opening its first development lab in Russia, the company announced Tuesday. Big Blue will spend $40 million over the next three years for its Russian systems & technology laboratory, which will focus on mainframe technology development. The company will hire up to 200 lab staffers by the end of 2008. "As a globally integrated company, IBM needs to have the best talent and knowledge in the world, regardless of where it resides," IBM CEO Samuel Palmisano said in a statement. Palmisano said there is...

A Texas company has decided to duke it out with IBM in India. Electronic Data Systems is located in Plano, TX. Mphasis is located in India's silicon valley - Bangalore. After IBM announced its increased interest in India, EDS decided to show just how much interest they have in the country as well - to the tune of $380 million. Compare that to the $6 billion that IBM has pledged to India, and I think IBM hardly noticed EDS' gesture. Where do these companies get this money? EDS bought 52% of Mphasis shares. Their goal - to add overseas jobs...

Unix's Slow Death Still Gives Life To IBM Chris Kraeuter It's hard to get attention for something as dull as Unix computers when Web companies snag all the headlines for advancements in digital media. But an important development is happening at IBM that bears watching. The company, which will announce its third-quarter results Oct. 17, has been the prime beneficiary of a consolidation in the Unix market that has vexed rivals Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) and Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ). IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) captured the top...

Yet more stupid lawyer tricks from our good friends at SCO: Long after the deadline for disclosing its allegations, SCO seeks by indirection to change them. In three of its eight expert reports, SCO alleges the misuse of material nowhere identified in the Final Disclosures, the very purpose of which was to fix the parties' allegations once and for all last year. Indeed, with respect to its allegation that Linux infringes SCO's alleged UNIX copyrights, SCO proffers expert testimony that has no support in the Final Disclosures and, if allowed, would reinvent the case at the eleventh hour. SCO's attempt...

IBM has a message for the world... at least to the people who care about what IBM is doing. The "I" now stands for India. The "B" stands for Bangalore - India's Silicon Valley. The "M" stands for Mirza Diya, Bollywood's answer to Lindsay Lohan. Mirza will emcee IBM's annual investor briefing at a hotel 10,000 miles away from IBM's New York offices in a sprawling palace that looks like Britain's Windsor Castle and was built during Britain's time of colonial rule. The message is simple - IBM is sending a message that India and ALL of ASIA are crucial...

IBM is staffing up in low-cost countries. To know one's surprise two of those countries are India and China. One more country is Brazil and IBM is also taking aim at Eastern Europe. But just how much is IBM depending on these countries and for what? Eastern Europe - IBM has grown from 2,900 workers to 5,125 workers since 2003. Eastern Europe provides data centers, service skills centers and Linux development labs. The work force in Brazil has doubled since 2003 - 4,500 to 9,000 and they are providing data centers, call centers and Linux development. The Chinese work force...