All the stories tagged with: supercomputer
IBM supercomputer to figure out universe’s origin
04/03/2012, Back in the 1980s, the IBM PC proved to be a powerhouse in bedrooms across the world, running on Microsoft’s DOS operating system. Well, the company has seen some lean times over the years, but they are far from finished. [...]
Exaflop computers coming your way, beats 50,000,000 laptops
03/29/2012, When the word ‘super’ is added as a prefix to a noun, you know that expectations will run high. Superman, Superwoman, Supercomputer…you get the idea. Well, Moore’s Law has certainly been in the groove for quite some time and shows [...]
T-Platforms to construct 10-petaflop supercomputer for Moscow State University
12/26/2011, The Moscow State University in Russia recently T-Platforms, a high-performance computing company, assigning them with a task that will see T-Platforms develop and construct a ten petaflop cluster which should enter operational status by the time 2013 rolls around. At [...]
Flash Gordon supercomputer
12/12/2011, Supercomputers might have lost their rather iconic status, with different countries going off on their own tangents to roll out what they classify as supercomputers. Heck, the folks in China want to build their own without relying on American chips, [...]
Fujitsu K supercomputer gains yet another speed boost
11/03/2011, China might have overtaken Japan as the world’s second largest economy, but for the moment, Japan is still top dog when it comes to the world’s fastest supercomputer, although China did touch the summit for a while before the Japanese [...]
China has their own supercomputer now
10/31/2011, China is not only the second largest economy in the world at the moment, trailing right behind the US at the moment, but the country also recently surprised high-performance US computing specialists as well by announcing the existence of the [...]
Titan supercomputer succeeds Jaguar
10/11/2011, Records are there and are meant to be broken, no? The Jaguar supercomputer’s time is up now, as there is a new challenger on the scene known as the Titan. How apt, considering the Titan sports 38,400 processors that boasts [...]
Supercomputer is the new crystal ball, predicts revolution
09/11/2011, In the distant future, do you think you will be able to see gypsy women peer into a computer monitor instead of a crystal ball so that they can chart the future? That seems to be the direction where we’re [...]
Japan supercomputer tops world ranking, pushes China aside in the process
06/20/2011, China’s economic might is something that the world is looking at in admiration after they opened up their economy, but who would have thought that the country also possessed the world’s fastest supercomputer? Well, that is all relegated to history [...]
Super computer Watson tears apart its competition on Jeopardy!
02/17/2011, Remember last month when we wrote about the super computer that was designed to trash its human competitors at “Jeopardy!”? Well, it finally happened and the video clip has been posted online (let’s hope it doesn’t get taken down) for [...]
Wolfram Alpha is biggest calculator in the world
02/13/2011, Tomorrow should be something special as we take a break from the hubbub that is MWC 2011 in Barcelona – we’re looking at an IBM computer which will tackle a couple of humans in a special week of television’s “Jeopardy.” [...]
Supercomputer to compete against humans in Jeopardy!
01/13/2011, In today’s world where men are trying to build machines that can defeat men, they’ve sure come a long way. From simple video games to actual machines physically interacting with people, humans have always wanted to create something smarter and [...]
China tops US in world’s fastest supercomputer race
11/14/2010, Rumor has been made fact, with the Chinese Tianhe-1A system at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin hitting a performance level of 2.57 petaflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second), making it the top supercomputer in the world while wresting this [...]
