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Supercomputer
A supercomputer is a computer that represents the limit of existing processing capacity. Supercomputers are used for calculation-intensive tasks for applications such as quantum physics, weather forecasting, climate research, molecular modeling and physical simulations, from modeling airplanes in wind tunnels to the detonation of nuclear weapons and nuclear fusion.
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How Moore's Law can save the world
Renewable energy will win out. That's where the next wave of economic growth lies. By creating market incentives for it, we can get our share. Or we can let politics continue destroying our...
6 | December 11, 2009 1:52pm |
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We are not really data fatties
TV gives us almost 45%, the Internet now gives us almost 25%. Which means 70% of the words we ingest each day come from screens, not paper.
December 11, 2009 7:52am |
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Today's supercomputers: far greater than the sum of their parts
Building powerful new products from inexpensive, everyday components
2 | November 24, 2009 2:00am |
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Brain implants could control computers by 2020, Intel says
Users will be able to control computers using only their brains thanks to chips embedded in them, Intel researchers said.
17 | November 20, 2009 1:26pm |
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The 'Singularity' draws closer: what happens when computers are smarter than humans?
Exponential growth in machine intelligence is creating new opportunities for growth and problem-solving unimaginable even a few years ago
14 | November 18, 2009 9:22pm |
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Scientists build biggest artificial brain of all time; 1.6 billion neurons, as smart as a cat
Scientists have built the biggest artificial brain of all time using a supercomputer powered by 147,456 processors, 150,000 gigabytes of memory and millions of watts of electricity that's about as...
11 | November 18, 2009 10:28am |
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Radioactive waste near New Mexico water supply not a health risk, officials say
Radioactive waste is seeping from mountain burial sites in the canyons of northern New Mexico and moving toward the area's springs and streams, but officials insist it's not a health risk.
9 | November 3, 2009 11:34am |
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World's fastest supercomputer tasked with dark matter, DNA sequencing
The world's fastest supercomputer may have been built to model nuclear explosions, but it's now being tasked with simulating the Big Bang and managing more than 10,000 DNA sequences infected with HIV.
1 | October 28, 2009 4:37pm |
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Are 18 to 35 year-olds the innovation generation?
A widely-held belief is that younger generations drive innovation, but new evidence suggests that people aged 18 to 35 are impacting technology far more than the teenage generation that follows them.
1 | August 26, 2009 7:51am |
