Supercomputer

It's getting easier, thanks in part to Microsoft.

1 | October 29, 2010 12:01am | By Deborah Gage

Forget Intel and AMD: a little known family of chips is finally drawing China into the processor wars.

4 | October 22, 2010 11:20am | By John Herrman

We say goodbye to Thinking Tech editor Dan Nosowitz and hello to a new one: John Herrman.

September 27, 2010 7:06pm | By Andrew Nusca

Scientists developed NeuFlow, a supercomputer with the ability to process what it sees. The wallet-sized chip computer could help cars drive on their own, 360-degree vision for soldiers, and...

1 | September 16, 2010 10:45am | By Boonsri Dickinson

European researchers want traffic lights to be self-organizing to reduce your time stuck in traffic.

10 | September 15, 2010 4:57pm | By Boonsri Dickinson

Mars, the maker of M&Ms, IBM and the U.S. Department of Agriculture are making the cacao genome sequence publicly available. The game plan is to create a cacao plants that are more resistant to...

2 | September 15, 2010 3:43am | By Larry Dignan

Researchers from LSU and Ohio State are using supercomputers to map the impact of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on fish species in the area.

2 | August 26, 2010 8:52am | By Andrew Nusca

University of Washington researchers make protein folding into a computer game. Tens of thousands of players are now unlocking the mysteries of proteins to find cures to diseases.

August 5, 2010 3:29pm | By Boonsri Dickinson

Intel's new research prototype demonstrates that light beams can be used to replace electrons to transport data in computers of the future.

11 | July 27, 2010 2:24pm | By Andrew Nusca

Tech giant Microsoft says it has produced the largest and clearest image of the night sky ever -- and it's a terapixel in size.

4 | July 19, 2010 7:26am | By Andrew Nusca

NASA has offered Dell a $5.1 million contract to install high-performance computers in its Center for Climate Simulation in Greenbelt, Md.

July 15, 2010 7:59am | By Andrew Nusca

Will the inevitable summer hurricanes help spread the oil?

June 8, 2010 12:00am | By Deborah Gage

A supercomputer simulation conducted by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in conjunction with the Los Alamos National Laboratory indicates that the oil spill in the Gulf of...

1 | June 3, 2010 7:30pm | By Larry Dignan

We say goodbye to Thinking Tech editor Dana Blankenhorn and hello to a new one: Dan Nosowitz.

June 2, 2010 7:02am | By Andrew Nusca

The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility and its Jaguar system kept the No. 1 spot on the Top500 list of fastest supercomputers, but China's new Nebulae is close behind...

1 | May 31, 2010 4:01am | By Larry Dignan

We're all going to be on it one day, and securing it is a work in progress

2 | May 28, 2010 11:30am | By Deborah Gage

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using the world's fastest supercomputer to model and simulate next-generation nuclear power plants.

4 | May 20, 2010 6:41am | By Andrew Nusca

Flying cars -- long the idealistic vision of futurists past and present -- may always be too impractical. But not impossible.

10 | May 15, 2010 6:00am | By Joe McKendrick

A cat's brain is the model for a new supercomputer developed by the University of Michigan and funded by DARPA.

5 | April 16, 2010 3:34am | By Andrew Nusca

Public-private partnership helps organizations gain access to raw computing power.

February 25, 2010 4:36am | By Heather Clancy