On the world's fastest supercomputer, named Jaguar, scientists are simulating the past 21,000 years of earth's climate history -- a feat that would take average desktop PCs centuries to complete. Or, in science-speak: "After theory ...READ»
Big Blue has morphed into Big Green. In the Green 500 list of super-powerful computing machines, IBM has snapped up 57 of the top 100 places.
The Green list is a re-ordering of the famous annual Top 500 list of supercomputers in ...READ»
Creative has been teasing a strange "stem cell" chip for a few weeks as part of its Ziilabs offshoot. Now we know that it's a crazy-powerful media-centred system on a chip, designed to be daisy-chained together into a "nano-sized" ...READ»
This week, Microsoft [MSFT] announced a new partnership with Cray Computers [CRAY], makers of the well-known CRAY-2 supercomputer. The deal will result in a small, reasonably-priced Windows-based supercomputer meant for home power ...READ»
For years Google's search engine has ruled the Web story-finding world, but its interface is far from perfect: Even with the new voice-recognition front-end, it's not like asking an expert to answer your question. Enter IBM with ...READ»
Scientists already know that climate change has an impact on the environment, but what about the supercomputers that are supposed to predict climate change? It turns out the U.K.'s most powerful supercomputer, which also happens to be ...READ»
We may have had three days off this weekend, but the news doesn't sleep. Here's what's been going on while you've been barbecue-ing your steaks--and we Brits have been sheltering under umbrellas turned inside-out by the biting north ...READ»
A custom app to interface with a supercomputer and complete some of its calculations? You've got it--courtesy of MIT and Texas Advanced Supercomputer Center. And it's not Apple's glory this time, it's Android's.
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Intel revealed a few details about a new chip the other day--not surprising news, you may think, as Intel's been doing lots of future-facing PR recently. But this chip is different, super in fact: It's got 50-CPU cores on a single ...READ»
For more than five decades, America has continued to pioneer and lead the rest of the world in Information technology innovation. America’s lead in information technology spans across all specialization in IT fields; from super-computing to parallel computing and the now popular distributed and client-server computing.READ»
