Today, the race for better, smaller, faster supercomputers includes an adjective that wasn't nearly as common five years ago: greener. In other words, more energy efficient. And, not incidentally, cheaper.
Five years ago it was the world's fastest computer running over a million billion calculations per second, but today Los Alamos Lab's Roadrunner supercomputer is being decommissioned.
Department of Energy completes work on Titan supercomputer with Nvidia's graphics chips and AMD microprocessors.
Adapteva is launching a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter in an ambitious, last-ditch effort to create a $99 supercomputer for the masses.
Lick that cone, ice cream boy. Just don’t be thinking about the trillions of calculations that went into making that flavor taste just right.
Supercomputers are often used, so we hear, to model nuclear explosions. Life-and-death stuff like weather and …
Medical and technological advancements of the recent decade have finally paved the way to cure one of the most malevolent diseases: the common cold.
Scientists in Australia are using IBM supercomputing technology to simulate the 3D motion of the human …
IBM’s Watson supercomputer — and champion of trivia game Jeopardy! — is headed to hospitals to help doctors quickly register a patient’s complaints and symptoms and diagnose problems.
That means a patient could walk into a hospital and tell the …
The war is over, and humanity has ceded its crown as the master of trivia to IBM’s Watson supercomputer.
Now the team responsible for the humanity’s downfall in Jeopardy is ready to answer questions as to how — and why …
There’s no rest for the weary cyberbrain. IBM’s Watson supercomputer, which soundly trounced its human competitors after a three-night Jeopardy competition, will be bringing its talents to the health care industry, thanks to a new research partnership announced today with …
After tying for first place last night, IBM’s Watson supercomputer trounced its human competitors tonight in the conclusion of the first round of its Jeopardy challenge.
Watson ended the night with $35,754, while former human Jeopardy champs Brad Rutter and …
