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Water-Cooled Supercomputer Doubles as Dorm Space Heater
Massive supercomputers that devour electricity to keep them humming are not exactly the poster children for green technology. But IBM hopes to change that with its plans to build a supercomputer that...
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How to Upgrade a Supercomputer, 37,376 Chips at a Time
The most powerful supercomputer in the world, the Cray XT5 — aka ‘Jaguar’ — is a computing monster with the ability to clock 1.759 petaflops (1,759 trillion calculations per second). So just what...
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Android Phones Can Substitute for Supercomputers
There’s an app for almost everything. Now add one that can run calculations from a supercomputer on a Nexus One phone in real time and without the need for internet connectivity. Researchers at...
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China Beats U.S. For the World’s Fastest Supercomputer Title
Add the ‘made in China’ tag to yet another gadget: the world’s fastest supercomputer. China says it has the most powerful computing system — a machine called Tianhe-1A. The supercomputer uses 7,168...
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