Posts tagged ‘supercomputer’

IBM Jeopardy-playing machine can now beat human contestants

Short URL - 1 views - Source - February 12th, 2010

IBM's Jeopardy-playing supercomputer is now capable of beating human Jeopardy contestants on a regular basis, but has a ways to go before it takes on the likes of 74-time champion Ken Jennings

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Massive “Dark Halo” Discovered Beyond Edge of the Milky Way

Short URL - 0 views - Source - December 1st, 2009

The biggest things in the universe just got bigger - or rather, they've always been bigger and we somehow missed it up to now. Supercomputer simulations of galactic core black holes indicate that instead of being a mere two billion...

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Black Friday for the U.S Air Force = 2200 PS3s

Short URL - 0 views - Source - November 28th, 2009

The Air Force is buying 2,200 PlayStation3s. They’ll use them to build a Linux supercomputer. Their current one, made of 336 of the old-style consoles at a cost of $118,000, has already been used for a few applications not currently available on the regular stand-alone, non-supercomputer PS3.

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World’s Fastest Computer Working on Solving Climate Change

Short URL - 0 views - Source - November 21st, 2009

The insanely powerful Jaguar XT5 supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee was recently named the fastest supercomputer in the world. With a speed of 1.759 petaflops , this swift machine is currently being used by the forces of good to solve the world’s problems – including the climate change.

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