All the stories tagged with supercomputer
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 [...]
China’s Tianhe-1A Is World’s Fastest Supercomputer
10/28/2010, Folks were saying that it would happen and now China has just leaped past the rest of the world and revealed the world’s fastest supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A. The supercomputer is located at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin and scored [...]
Fujitsu K computer starts to ship
09/28/2010, Japan’s next-generation supercomputer, known as the K computer, has started to have its modular units shipped by Fujitsu. This supercomputer will be a central part of the High-Performance Computing Infrastructure (HPCI) initiative that is being led by Japan’s Ministry of [...]
Tokyo University Introduces Its Tsubame 2.0 Supercomputer
06/24/2010, The Tokyo Institute of Technology has revealed that its next-generation supercomputer will begin operations in the fall, dubbed Tsubame 2.0. In case you’re wondering, it’ll boast 2,816 six-core, 2.96GHz Xeon 5600 processors, along with 4,224 units of NVIDIA’s Tesla M2050 [...]
IBM Watson supercomputer holds a decent conversation
06/16/2010, IBM could be breaking new ground here with the Watson, a supercomputer that they have worked on for years. What makes Watson so different? You won’t have Edison calling out to him, but Watson is able to win at Jeopardy, [...]
Cray Jaguar takes top spot
11/16/2009, Cray has worked hard to regain the top spot from IBM in the Top500 Supercomputer chip-measuring contest. Known as the XT5 supercomputer (codename Jaguar) at Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee, this year’s edition received a boost, hitting six-core Opteron [...]
SGI Octane III personal supercomputer
09/22/2009, SGI has rolled out its personal supercomputer known as the Octane III, where it is able to hold up to a whopping 80 high-performance cores as well as nearly 1TB of memory. The Octane III will supposedly enable a “new [...]
