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Obama Calls For U.S. To Build World’s Fastest Supercomputer
To compete with China, and use in almost any field of research you can think of
SXSW 2015: What IBM Has Cooking For Chef Watson’s Future
Can we interest you in a black olive-cherry compote?
17-Petaflop Titan Supercomputer Is Now Officially The World’s Fastest
American supercomputers now make up half of the top 10 fastest machines on the planet.
India Aims To Take The “World’s Fastest Supercomputer” Crown By 2017
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.
India to Predict Monsoon Rains With Supercomputer Accuracy
In an effort to stay one step ahead of the summer monsoon season, Indian scientists are embarking on an ambitious … Continued
Blue Devil Airship is Getting a Super-High-Speed Optical Laser Downlink Upgrade
The Air Force’s Blue Devil airship–a recent PopSci Best of What’s New recipient and a potential answer to the military’s … Continued
First-Ever Supercomputer Sim of the H1N1 Virus Gives Researchers Resolution Down to the Atom
A different sort of computer virus gives drug developers new weaponry
The New Top 500 Supercomputers: China’s Computing Power is on a Serious Uptick, GPU Deployment Grows
The newest TOP500 List–the ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers–dropped today, and two things are clear: graphics processing units … Continued
What Are You Working on Today, Ranger Supercomputer?
Deep in the heart of Texas, UT's Ranger supercomputer is modeling the motions of bodies big and small
Jaguar, What Are You Working on Today?
A word with the nation's biggest petascale supercomputer
