News tagged with computing power
NASA Supercomputer Ranks Among World's Fastest
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's premiere supercomputer located at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., has garnered the sixth spot on the Top500 list of the world's most powerful computers.
One tonne 'Baby' goes mobile
Oct 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It took a one-tonne computer the size of a room to run a simple mathematics program in 1948 - but now computer scientists have made it available on your mobile.
Kraken becomes first academic machine to achieve petaflop
Oct 08, 2009 |
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The National Institute for Computational Sciences' (NICS's) Cray XT5 supercomputer—Kraken—has been upgraded to become the first academic system to surpass a thousand trillion calculations a second, or one ...
Augmented reality to help astronauts make sense of space
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Life aboard the International Space Station is hard work. Crewmembers have a multiplicity of complex tasks, potentially involving thousands of tools, components and other items. But ESA astronaut ...
Makers hope new 'ultrathin' notebooks fill a niche
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Those in the market for a laptop this fall will find a batch of new, mid-priced models that promise less weight and longer battery life than traditional notebook computers, but more performance -- and a bigger ...
Intel boosts Facebook users power for research
Aug 04, 2009 |
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Intel unveiled a software program that lets Facebook users devote spare computer processing power to researching diseases or climate change.
Newest system mechanic adds energy boost, more
Jul 23, 2009 |
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Walk into any convenience store these days and you'll see those little energy booster bottles next to the register, containing a drink that gives you a jolt of power when you really need it and gets you firing on all cylinders. ...
Software to unlock the power of grids
Jul 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A huge amount of computing power sits idle most of the time, and new technologies enabling the sharing of resources aim to capitalise on that. Now European researchers have developed software ...
IBM Developing Computing System to Challenge Humans on America's Favorite Quiz Show, Jeopardy! (w/Video)
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 27, 2009 |
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For nearly two years, IBM scientists have been working on a highly advanced Question Answering (QA) system, codenamed "Watson." The scientists believe that the computing system will be able to understand complex questions ...
Most powerful computer of its kind in western N.Y. available worldwide
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Local scientist Dr. Russ Miller is leading the rollout of "Magic," one of the most powerful computers in New York State to qualified users worldwide for solving computationally-demanding problems.
No disks needed for startup's streamed video games
Mar 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Music and movies can be streamed over the Internet, so why not video games? A startup founded by technology entrepreneur Steve Perlman says it has developed a technology to deliver video games on demand, an idea ...
European fusion computer comes to Julich
Jan 30, 2009 |
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A new supercomputer will help us to understand the complex physical effects taking place inside the ITER fusion reactor. The computer known as HPC-FF will deliver computing power of about 100 teraflop/s and is optimally suited ...
