Supercomputer

As supercomputers get faster, the demand for their services is also picking up.

1 | June 19, 2013 12:17pm | By Tyler Falk

What can we accomplish by combining the best of human intellect with the expanding processing capacity of machines?

3 | April 16, 2013 3:00am | By Mari Silbey

The European Commission has selected the two winning proposals: one to model the entire brain using a supercomputer and another to push graphene into the marketplace. Half a billion euros each.

2 | January 24, 2013 11:14pm | By Janet Fang

UK-based oil company BP is building a supercomputer with a single global, mission in mind: find more oil and gas.

December 11, 2012 1:37pm | By Kirsten Korosec

IBM has announced advances in using light instead of electrical signals to transmit information for future computing, which means Big Data limitations may soon be a thing of the past.

December 10, 2012 3:28am | By Charlie Osborne

Big Blue's new standard bearer for computing highlights the rising influence of graphics processors.

1 | November 13, 2012 4:05am | By Tuan C. Nguyen

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers are using the Sequoia supercomputer and a code called Cardioid to model the beating human heart in real time for the first time.

1 | November 12, 2012 6:00am | By Andrew Nusca

Computational and Big Data problems -- from protein discovery to terrorism prevention -- may be better handled by smart users with weak machines than the most powerful supercomputers.

1 | November 4, 2012 7:56am | By Joe McKendrick

Cleveland Clinic will host IBM's Watson to help it develop skills related to the field of medicine.

2 | October 31, 2012 10:01am | By Andrew Nusca

Mimic a bee brain. Navigate planes through uncharted territory. Mechanically pollinate crops. Warranty void after one sting.

5 | October 4, 2012 4:15am | By Mark Halper

NASA pursues more powerful ways to deliver data across global networks of scientists and engineers -- and even add a Watson-like supercomputer to the International Space Station.

August 23, 2012 3:00am | By Joe McKendrick

Ultimately, the touted advantages of cost-savings and flexibility are but a small, and perhaps insignificant piece of the disruptive changes cloud computing means for organizations.

10 | August 4, 2012 9:38am | By Joe McKendrick

The White House launched US Ignite in June, a U.S. government-backed effort to spur development of advanced broadband applications. Here's a look at how the initiative got started, where...

August 1, 2012 3:01am | By Mari Silbey

The way we treat cancer is about to change: Genome sequencing may enable us to attack the very genes driving an individual's disease.

2 | July 8, 2012 7:00pm | By Laura Shin

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) project will produce ten petabytes of data every year, furthering our knowledge of the universe, and studies of data science. The National Science Board...

July 3, 2012 11:40pm | By Mari Silbey

It would take almost 7 billion people working continuously for over three centuries to match what the IBM Sequoia can do in an hour.

4 | June 19, 2012 4:30am | By Tuan C. Nguyen

"The Morning Briefing" is SmartPlanet's daily roundup of must-reads from the web. This morning we're reading about Big Data analytics.

June 13, 2012 2:01am | By Charlie Osborne

How much impact will the expansion of cloud computing have on the global economy and job creation?

4 | May 28, 2012 4:40am | By Charlie Osborne

"The Morning Briefing" is SmartPlanet's daily roundup of must-reads from the web. This morning we're reading about the growth of cloud computing.

May 22, 2012 1:57am | By Charlie Osborne

"The Morning Briefing" is SmartPlanet's daily roundup of must-reads from the web. This morning we're reading about cloud computing.

1 | May 17, 2012 1:48am | By Charlie Osborne