Supercomputers
Supercomputers, the world's largest and fastest computers, are primarily used for complex scientific calculations. The parts of a supercomputer are comparable to those of a deskt...
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Supercomputers
Supercomputing is a concept that has evolved rapidly. Computers developed under that description have existed only since the early 1970s. For most of the time since, supercomputers have...
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Supercomputer
The introduction of the microprocessor integrated circuit (IC) in 1971 gave birth to two new categories of computer, the microcomputer and the supercomputer. The microcomputer developed ...
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By 2011, the University of Illinois should be the home of the world's fastest supercomputer.The National Science Board on Wednesday gave the National Science Foundation the OK to spend $208 million...
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The forces at work in dying stars and black holes, Earth's global climate change, nanostructures and cellular membranes all will be on the agenda for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's supercomput...
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Seymour Cray wanted to talk to his sister. But it was already after bedtime, and the young Crays were supposed to stay in their beds. Young Seymour had a strategy: If he could figure out how to rig...
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MOSCOW, Jan 24 (Reuters) - A Russian university has bought
one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, the first time
that such sophisticated technology has been exported to the
former Soviet...
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Hewlett-Packard Co. improved its standing on the latest list of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers, released Wednesday at a conference in Dresden.IBM Corp. still dominates with six of the top 1...
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The Tyrannosaurus Rex would have been able to outrun soccer star David Beckham, according to research published Wednesday.Previously experts argued the 18-foot-tall T-Rex's bulk would have meant it...
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IBM Corp. and Intel Corp. improved their standings Monday in the newest tally of the world's fastest 500 computers, a closely watched measure of progress in the industry.The list, published twice a...
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we-almost-revealed-the-JT Leroy-hoax press release a few months back, The Nation's publicity director, Mike Webb, fired off a release this afternoon--in the wake of USA Today's exclusive NSA data-m...
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