Archive for the ‘Super Computing’ Category
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
The ability to exploit the extraordinary properties of quantum mechanics in novel applications, such as a new generation of super-fast computers, seems to come closer following with recent breakthroughs by an international team led by researchers from the University of New South Wales.
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Thursday, January 1st, 2009
A number of technologies have exploded throughout 2008, improving and influencing our daily life. Here is a quick look at some of the technology events that happened during 2008.
Big Bang Experiment: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, intended to collide opposing beams of ...
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Saturday, December 6th, 2008
The world's first personal supercomputer, which is 250 times faster than the average PC, has been unveiled. The NVIDIA Tesla Personal Supercomputer is based on the revolutionary NVIDIA CUDA parallel computing architecture and powered by up to 960 parallel processing cores.
Until now, supercomputers were massive systems made up of thousands ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Lonestar, a supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) recently performed a laser cancer surgery on a dog without the intervention of a surgeon. The operation was done in Houston without the intervention of a human surgeon while the Lonestar supercomputer, a Dell Linux Cluster with 5,840 processors, was ...
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Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Scientists at IBM recently completed research which may soon result in supercomputers the size of current notebooks.
This would be achieved by replacing existing copper wires used to couple processing cores together with a silicon Mach-Zehnder electro-optic modulator, which would allow light to pass the data. The connector created by the ...
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Friday, July 27th, 2007
Super Computer, the name itself reminds huge room full of equipment and scientists around it. But it may not take much time for individuals to own computing power comparable to that of super computers.
A prototype of what may be the next generation of personal computers has been developed by researchers ...
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