items tagged with Supercomputing
Hey, hand me a supercomputer
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2007-10-22 07:54:25
Scottish, German, and Italian engineers and scientists are studying how nano-sized wires could one day bring the size of a supercomputer so it could be held in one’s hand. The key to reducing the size of computers is learning how wires within microchips behave at tiny diameters.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2007-10-22 07:54:25
Scottish, German, and Italian engineers and scientists are studying how nano-sized wires could one day bring the size of a supercomputer so it could be held in one’s hand. The key to reducing the size of computers is learning how wires within microchips behave at tiny diameters.
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Tilera seeks processor performance crown with 64-cores
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-08-20 06:49:59
Not content with dual or quad core technology, Tilera’s newly available TILE64 Processor, equipped with 64-cores and a mesh-like interconnect that eliminates bottlenecks, seeks to usurp the processor performance crown.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-08-20 06:49:59
Not content with dual or quad core technology, Tilera’s newly available TILE64 Processor, equipped with 64-cores and a mesh-like interconnect that eliminates bottlenecks, seeks to usurp the processor performance crown.
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Illinois to get world’s fastest supercomputer at one petaflops
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-08-11 10:46:35
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will house the $208 million Blue Water supercomputer to be built by IBM for operations beginning in 2011.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-08-11 10:46:35
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will house the $208 million Blue Water supercomputer to be built by IBM for operations beginning in 2011.
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NASA $597M supercomputing contract goes to CSC
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-07-25 12:10:26
Computer Sciences Corporation, headquartered in El Segundo, California, has been awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration a ten-year supercomputer support contract that could reach up to $597 million.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-07-25 12:10:26
Computer Sciences Corporation, headquartered in El Segundo, California, has been awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration a ten-year supercomputer support contract that could reach up to $597 million.
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Chinook computer checkers champ now king forever
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2007-07-19 17:32:38
It took up to 200 computers working simultaneously since 1989, but computer scientists at the University of Alberta have solved the game of draughts, known in the US as checkers, meaning that humans no longer have any possibility of beating the program called Chinook.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2007-07-19 17:32:38
It took up to 200 computers working simultaneously since 1989, but computer scientists at the University of Alberta have solved the game of draughts, known in the US as checkers, meaning that humans no longer have any possibility of beating the program called Chinook.
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