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Computer Based on Insights From The Brain Moves Closer to Reality

Computer Based on Insights From The Brain Moves Closer to Reality

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (24) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today at SC 09, the supercomputing conference, IBM announced significant progress toward creating a computer system that simulates and emulates the brain's abilities for sensation, perception, ...


Predictive simulation successes on Dawn supercomputer

Predictive simulation successes on Dawn supercomputer

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The 500-teraFLOPS Advanced Simulation and Computing program's Sequoia Initial Delivery System (Dawn), an IBM machine of the same lineage as BlueGene/L, has immediately proved itself useful ...


ALCF working to get more science per watt

ALCF working to get more science per watt

Technology / Other

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cooling a supercomputer consumes more electricity than is required to run the machine, even machines as powerful as the IBM Blue Gene/P—called Intrepid—at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. ...


Leading-edge data analytics and visualization enable breakthrough science

Leading-edge data analytics and visualization enable breakthrough science

Electronics / Hardware

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most science research programs that run on high-performance computers like the IBM Blue Gene/P Intrepid at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) generate enormous quantities of ...





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Blue-eyed humans have a single, common ancestor

Biology /

created Jan 30, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (99) | comments 4

New research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour ...


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Blue roses to debut in Japan

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 1

Which colour would you like your roses? Red, white, yellow... or perhaps blue?


New technique allows simultaneous tracking of gene expression and movement

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created Dec 16, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Flies expressing green fluorescent protein (GFP) in their retina cells or other tissues can be tracked by specially modified video cameras, creating a real time computer record of movement and gene expression. The new technique, ...


Research could boost coastal economics with crustacean molting on demand

Research could boost coastal economics with crustacean molting on demand (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers are close to unraveling intricate cellular pathways that control molting in blue crabs. The discoveries could revolutionize the soft-shell crab industry, generating ...


New arrangement for supercomputer time

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created Aug 17, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The IBM Corp.'s most powerful computer will reportedly now be used for industrial and academic, as well as scientific, research.


IBM: World's most powerful computer

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created Nov 14, 2005 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The TOP500 Organization, which tracks high performance computing, Monday named an IBM supercomputing system as the world's most powerful supercomputer. IBM said its Blue Gene/L has an unprecedented sustained performance of ...


Argonne's supercomputer named world’s fastest for open science, third overall

Electronics / Hardware

created Jun 18, 2008 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory's IBM Blue Gene/P high-performance computing system is now the fastest supercomputer in the world for open science, according to the semiannual Top500 List ...


Argonne's Blue Gene/P gets more muscle to address most challenging scientific problems

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 01, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 0

IBM and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory announced completion of a contract for a 445-teraflops Blue Gene/P system for the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF). As the ALCF's second major ...


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IBM's Blue Gene Pulls Away from the Pack

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 12, 2007 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1

IBM’s Blue Gene/L supercomputer sprinted to a new world record as it continued its four-year domination of the official TOP500 Supercomputer Sites list. The world’s fastest computer at Lawrence Livermore National ...


IBM Triples Performance of World's Fastest Supercomputer

IBM Triples Performance of World's Fastest Supercomputer

Electronics / Hardware

created Jun 27, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 0

IBM’s newest supercomputer, Blue Gene/P, is nearly three times as fast as its predecessor and is designed to fit in smaller spaces and use less electricity than other commercially available models.



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