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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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Japan's K super computer wins the top spot in the world
A Japanese supercomputer has won the title of the world's fastest machine, ending six short months of occupying the throne of China.
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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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Super computer Mira knocked Tianhe-1a
Argonne, the National Laboratory of the US Department of Energy, began building IBM's supercomputer into one of the most powerful supercomputers today.
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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…
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American supercomputer research center is hacked
The US Oak Ridge National Research Center this week (December 6) has announced it has suffered a sophisticated cyber attack within the past few weeks, causing thousands…
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IBM put supercomputer technology into microprocessors
Laptops that can achieve supercomputer performance are gradually becoming a reality. IBM is working to develop nanophotonic processor technology with higher data exchang…
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IBM created the world's fastest supercomputer
The latest IBM BlueGene / P supercomputers have surpassed the brother BlueGene / L to dominate the world's fastest supercomputing position and contribute to strengthenin…