Supercomputer articles

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  Google and NASA collaborate on AI research with new quantum supercomputer

  By Matt Brian on May 16, 2013 06:36 am + 36 comments

  Google and NASA have teamed up to launch a new laboratory focused on advancing machine learning. The Continue reading…

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  Energy inefficiency brings an end to 2008's record-breaking Roadrunner supercomputer

  By Jacob Kastrenakes on March 31, 2013 07:23 pm + 18 comments

  The fastest supercomputer of 2008 is being decommissioned today after setting record-breaking speeds Continue reading…

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  IBM removed the Urban Dictionary from Watson's memory after it got too sassy

  By Justin Rubio on January 10, 2013 02:27 pm + 136 comments

  Like a parent washing out their child's mouth with soap, IBM was forced to cleanse its supercomputer Continue reading…

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  IBM could speed up large-scale computing by putting optical communication tools in chips

  By Adi Robertson on December 11, 2012 04:33 pm + 7 comments

  Light-based communication promises superfast, cheap, and scalable computing, but much of the Continue reading…

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  Spaun artificial brain can see, write, and answer basic IQ questions

  By Bryan Bishop on November 30, 2012 02:39 pm + 30 comments

  Researchers across the world continue to make advances towards using technology to mimic the human Continue reading…

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  Titan named world's fastest supercomputer with help of Nvidia GPU underpinnings

  By Chris Welch on November 12, 2012 10:49 am + 57 comments

  One year after the US Department of Energy awarded Cray and Nvidia with a $97 million agreement to Continue reading…

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  10 billion years in 78 seconds: scientists use supercomputer to model universe

  By Louis Goddard on August 17, 2012 10:17 am + 20 comments

  Forget SimCity — scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and the Continue reading…

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  Nvidia and Intel join AMD in Department of Energy's FastForward exascale computing project

  By Dieter Bohn on July 14, 2012 05:57 am + 16 comments

  Nvidia has announced that it as secured a $12.4 million contract over the next two years from the US Continue reading…

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  AMD given $12.6 million in supercomputing grants by US government

  By Adi Robertson on July 11, 2012 07:12 pm + 14 comments

  Computing giant AMD has been given a total of $12.6 million to research high-powered extreme-scale Continue reading…

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  Scientists protect academic networks with high-speed DMZs

  By Louis Goddard on June 27, 2012 09:03 am + 6 comments

  Ars Technica has published an intriguing piece about new techniques being used to secure Continue reading…