Jaguar, What Are You Working on Today?
Science A word with the nation's biggest petascale supercomputer Over the last week, we managed to get some of the nation's biggest and baddest supercomputers to take a moment away from their gigabusy...
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Science Deep in the heart of Texas, UT's Ranger supercomputer is modeling the motions of bodies big and small _This week, PopSci is peeking under the hood of some of the nation's biggest and baddest...
View ArticleThe New Top 500 Supercomputers: China's Computing Power is on a Serious...
Technology The newest TOP500 List--the ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers--dropped today, and two things are clear: graphics processing units are increasingly… The newest TOP500...
View ArticleFirst-Ever Supercomputer Sim of the H1N1 Virus Gives Researchers Resolution...
Science A different sort of computer virus gives drug developers new weaponry Back in 2009 when the H1N1 pandemic was sweeping the globe--it would leave about 17,000 people dead by the beginning of...
View ArticleBlue Devil Airship is Getting a Super-High-Speed Optical Laser Downlink Upgrade
Technology The Air Force's Blue Devil airship--a recent PopSci Best of What's New recipient and a potential answer to the military's expanding data glut problem--is getting yet another… The Air...
View ArticleIndia to Predict Monsoon Rains With Supercomputer Accuracy
Science In an effort to stay one step ahead of the summer monsoon season, Indian scientists are embarking on an ambitious and unprecedented project to build computer models that will… In an effort to...
View ArticleIndia Aims To Take The "World's Fastest Supercomputer" Crown By 2017
Technology A plan submitted to the government asks for a nearly $900 million investment that would produce an exaflop-rated machine 61 times faster than the world's current fastest supercomputer....
View Article17-Petaflop Titan Supercomputer Is Now Officially The World's Fastest
Science American supercomputers now make up half of the top 10 fastest machines on the planet. The latest TOP500 rankings of the world's fastest supercomputers is out today, and as expected Oak Ridge...
View ArticleSXSW 2015: What IBM Has Cooking For Chef Watson's Future
Technology Can we interest you in a black olive-cherry compote? Last year at South by Southwest, one of our editors was lucky enough to taste a kebab designed by IBM's Chef Watson. This year, my...
View ArticleObama Calls For U.S. To Build World’s Fastest Supercomputer
Science To compete with China, and use in almost any field of research you can think of Yesterday, President Obama signed an executive order to establish the National Strategic Computing Initiative,...
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