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Japan's supercomputer set a new record
Supercomputer developers K Computer from Japan have announced that their
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Fujitsu announced the new generation of supercomputers
On November 8, Fujitsu announced the new generation of commercial supercomputers (called PRIMEHPC FX10), with a record processing speed of 23.2 petaflop, surpassing the…
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Russia is building a 10 petaflop supercomputer
Like Europe and China, Russia is developing an exascale plan that aims to be less dependent on US technology.
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Supercomputers can predict social unrest
In the future supercomputers will be able to predict social unrest events such as waves of protests in Egypt or civil war in Libya.
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New computers know the diagnosis
The IBM supercomputing system is best known for the Jeopardy best-in-class supercomputing competition that is being exploited by one of America's largest insurance compa…
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The fastest supercomputer in the world is coming
The US National Science Foundation has funded $ 27 million to the Texas Computer Center at the University of Texas to create the world's fastest new supercomputer in 201…
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Supercomputer simulates the evolution of the universe
With the help of NASA's supercomputer, called the Pleiades, scientists have created the largest and most realistic simulations of the evolution of the universe to date.
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Russia stepped into the supercomputer race
The number of Russian supercomputers is increasing thanks to a company based in Moscow and the Russian President also found that high-performance computing is important…
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Supercomputers are about the size of a sugar cube
IBM scientists are committed to rapidly reducing the size of the world's most powerful supercomputers ...
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New technology makes computers 1000 times faster
Scientists from IBM have announced a new research result, using optical light pulses to speed data transfer between chips.
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IBM will build the world's most powerful supercomputer
Germany's Bavarian Academy of Sciences has signed a contract with IBM to produce a SuperMUC supercomputer that can perform 3 petaflops.
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The fastest supercomputer in the world
That is China's Tianhe-1A supercomputer, which can perform 2.5 million billion calculations in a second, or 40% of the speed of the supercomputer Cray XT5 Jaguar (1.7 mi…
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America racing to build supercomputers with China
Two US 20-petaflop systems are scheduled to be completed in 2012. But ranked No. 1 on this year's Top500 list, is China's Tianhe-1A supercomputer.
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Coming soon supercomputer?
Recently, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) has won a human resource cooperation agreement with Microsoft to study the interaction between processors and softwar…