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more about #supercomputers more comments → Voyou_Charmant: "isn't it just a bit curious that someone thought to save on upgrading the supercomputer just after Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was released?" Tha... more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Do they get a discount for buying in bulk? more » The5thElephant: Along with 2200 copies of MW2 our "next-gen" soldiers will finally receive realistic training and will be more capable due to perks providing increase... more » AtomFury: Oh common, we ALL know that they're really just organizing a massive LAN party :D. I hope they remembered to order 5000 bags of Doritos too. more » Jamez: IMB? IBM maybe? Or are we talking about something completely different? more » aogfilter001: Yeah, I'll bet a few of the "backup" units are being stored "off site" in the homes of the technicians. more » Purple Dave: We think dogs are smart because we can teach them to perform tricks to satisfy our whims. Cats think the same thing about people. Also, true story: ... more » Bokusatsu_Tenshi: I can has portable vershun? more » Nathan Obbards: This brings a whole new way of looking at Schrödinger's cat paradox. If we replicate the cat's brain and way of thinking, is it a cat or not? What ... more » Hiphopopotamus: I dunno about this... Tamagotchi seems to have nailed it with only 1/147456th of that. more » MarcusMaximus: "This is not just possible, it's inevitable," So, does Modha look like this? more » Killjoy: They'll know it's working properly when the interface loses responsiveness, starts ignoring them, yawns hugely at something invisible in the corner, a... more » ripfire: So how do you program it? lolcode? more » Kaiser-Machead: If being unfriendly were any kind of mimickry of intelligence, Chihuahuas should look like friggin' geniuses, but they're dumber than a sack of chalup... more » brianhatch: So even if you can successfully simulate the physical elements of the brain, does that mean that you can expect it to behave the same as a real brain?... more » -
#military
Department of Defense Buys 2,200 PS3s to Upgrade Supercomputer
Apparently the Department of Defense believes that PS3s are a better value when it comes to supercomputers than IBM products specifically designed for the purpose. Granted recent price drops probably didn't hurt in justifying a 2,200 console order either. More » -
#science
It Takes 147,456 PowerPC Processors To Out-Think a Single Stupid Cat Brain
Also on IBM's cat-sized-brain-simulation materials list: 143 terabytes of RAM, miles and miles of cabling, a million watts of electricity, 6675 tons of air conditioning equipment, and an acre of floor space. More » -
#supercomputers
World's Fastest Supercomputer Is World's Largest, Tackiest Case Mod Too
This is Jaguar, the new King of the Petaputer Hill, running at 1.75 petaflops-per-second. The Cray XT5 supercomputer was behind IBM's Roadrunnner for more than a year, until some clever scientist decided to paint a running Jaguar all over it. More » -
#jeopardy
IBM Prepping 'Watson' Computer to Compete on Jeopardy!
IBM, not content to merely crush the spirits of chess masters like Garry Kasparov, have started working with Jeopardy! to create a supercomputer that will undoubtedly answer questions more accurately than Sean Connery. More » -
#supercomputers
IBM Sequoia: Faster Than the Fastest 500 Supercomputers, Combined
20 petaflops. That's the speed rating of IBM's slated Sequoia supercomputer, the future world's fastest supercomputer that promises to be faster than every system on the Top500 supercomputer list, combined. More » -
#humor
Supercomputers Corroborate Einstein's e=mc2 After 103 Years
Believe it or not, but it has taken 103 years and the combined power of various of the world's top supercomputers to prove Eintein's biggest equation right, resolving e=mc2 at the scale of sub-atomic particles. The feat has been achieved by a team of French, German, and Hungarian physicists led by Laurent Lellouch at the Center for Theoretical Physics in France, and has finally answered a question that has puzzled scientists for decades: The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Atom Mass! More » -
#supercomputers
IBM Roadrunner Tops Cray as the Official World's Fastest Supercomputer
It's like a geek soap opera. Just last week, Cray bragged that their updated Jaguar XT supercomputer was the world's fastest. Now this week, IBM responds to the trash talk with a number one ranking of their Roadrunner system on the newly published Top500 supercomputing list. More » -
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#supercomputers
NEC's SX-9 is the World's Most Powerful Supercomputer
NEC has thrown down the world's most powerful supercomputer, called the SX-9, which is intended for pioneering scientific research. The beast of a machine can pull out an astonishing 839 trillion floating point operations / second (839 teraflops). The computing giant will go on display in Reno, Nevada, later this month. Why Nevada? More » -
#pcs
SiCortex Supercomputer Can be Powered by Bicycles
Here's a common predicament: You've got a supercomputer handy and you have some complex mathematical equations you need crunched. The problem is, there's no power source available! That's what you get for setting up your supercomputer in the desert, you idiot. Well, that won't be a problem much longer. That's because SiCortex has developed a supercomputer that can be powered by bicycles; 8 to 10 of them, to be exact. Finally! More » -
#worldsfastest
IBM to Build $200 Million Petaflop Supercomputer
According to some leaked government documents, IBM is working on building a monstrous $200 million petaflop supercomputer. Commissioned by the National Science Foundation, it would be the fastest computer in the world, the first to break the petaflop barrier. For you folks keeping track at home, a petaflop is a thousand trillion mathematical operations per second. Yeah, that's fast. More »
