Japan hopes to bring its first exascale computer online by 2020.
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The World’s Most Powerful Climate Change Supercomputer Powers Up
For all the political discord over climate change, one thing everyone can probably agree on is that when you’re throwing computational resources at modeling weather, the more the merrier.
Think of the new computer that just …
What, Exactly, Is a Supercomputer?
It’s official: The United States is home to the world’s fastest supercomputer. But what exactly are supercomputers and why should we care about them?
I decided to go straight to the source — Mike McCoy, program director for …
IBM to Help Research and Develop ‘Exascale’ Supercomputing Telescope
What has IBM’s thumbs up, millions of antennas, runs 10,000 times faster than today’s radio devices, will produce upwards of 100 times as much data per year as the Large Hadron Collier and study the beginning of time itself? If …
Meet Intel’s Crazy 50-Core ‘Knights Corner’, World’s First 1 TFLOPS Processor
Intel announces world’s first 1 teraflops processor—the power of a supercomputer on a single chip.
World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer Is Faster than 28,000 PS3s
Where in the world can you crunch over 8 quadrillion calculations per second? Find 672 computer racks linking an astonishing 68,544 CPUs, each of which harbors eight cores? Where the computing output is roughly equivalent to the power of 28,160 PlayStation 3s? *
On Japan’s “K” computer, that’s where. The supercomputer was built by …
China’s Supercomputer Fastest in the World, Has American Parts
China’s Tianhe-1A supercomputer just turned in the fastest performance score in the world: 2.507 petaflops. That’s “more than 40% higher” than the score set by the “Jaguar” supercomputer housed here in the U.S. at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Part of the reason behind Tianhe-1A’s speed comes …