Supercomputer articles

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  Stephen Hawking's next machine: a 'Big Brain' supercomputer from SGI

  By Kimber Streams on June 15, 2012 12:22 pm + 25 comments

  Stephen Hawking's quite the techie — his next machine will be the "Big Brain," which creator SGI Continue reading…

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  Deep Blue: 15 years after IBM's supercomputer beat the chess world's champ

  By Bryan Bishop on May 11, 2012 08:10 pm + 14 comments

  On May 11th, 1997, a supercomputer named Deep Blue did what at the time seemed impossible: it Continue reading…

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  Utility supercomputing: 50,000 cores for under $5,000 per hour

  By Aaron Souppouris on April 19, 2012 12:32 pm + 17 comments

  How would you like a 50,000 core supercomputer at your beck and call? Utility supercomputing company Continue reading…

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  Energy efficient supercomputer could eventually become most powerful in the world

  By Andrew Webster on April 3, 2012 07:17 pm + 5 comments

  The Mont-Blanc supercomputer project from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) is aiming to be t Continue reading…

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  IBM's quantum bits last 100 microseconds, a new record for quantum computing

  By Adi Robertson on February 28, 2012 02:27 pm + 19 comments

  A new method of making the fundamental building blocks of quantum computers has brought them closer Continue reading…

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  Blue Waters supercomputer installation begins, promises a petaflop of processing power

  By T.C. Sottek on January 29, 2012 11:37 am + 29 comments

  Blue Waters, a supercomputer that's expected to boast sustained speeds of a thousand trillion Continue reading…

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  Moscow State University buying a 10-petaflop supercomputer

  By Joseph Parish on December 25, 2011 08:21 am + 17 comments

  Russia's Moscow State University has a hunger for supercomputers. In the last four years it's Continue reading…

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  Nvidia Tesla GPUs used to accurately model swine flu in Chinese supercomputer

  By Tim Barribeau on November 11, 2011 08:41 am + 10 comments

  A Chinese research group has hooked together an obscene number of Nvidia Tesla GPUs in a Continue reading…

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  IBM's Watson goes on tour, defeats Harvard and MIT business students

  By Dante D'Orazio on November 2, 2011 02:52 pm + 27 comments

  IBM's Watson super computer has shown off its Jeopardy skills yet again. The data-wrangling Continue reading…

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  K Computer passes 10 petaflop milestone, extends lead as fastest supercomputer

  By Vlad Savov on November 2, 2011 05:20 am + 38 comments

  K Computer, the Japanese supercomputer that took the TOP500 crown as the world's fastest back in Continue reading…