supercomputers
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Obama’s Plan To Make The World’s Fastest Supercomputer
The US does not currently own the world’s fastest supercomputer. But if President Obama gets his way, that will change. Yesterday, Obama signed an executive order launching a program to build the world’s fastest supercomputer — 30 times faster than all others.
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Aussies Use CSIRO Supercomputer To Diagnose Sudden Death Heart Conditions
It’s scary to think that people die from undiagnosed, almost impossible-to-detect cardiac problems all the time. The sad part is that some of these can be treated, if correctly diagnosed in a timely fashion. Thanks to half-a-decade of hard work from a team at Sydney’s Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, and some help from a…
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UK’s New Weather Supercomputer Could Predict Rain In Your Street
The UK’s Met Office has just announced that it’s taking delivery of a new $150 million supercomputer — one that will be able to predict the weather accurately enough to know what it will be like on the very road you live on.
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IBM’s Supercomputers Discovered A New Kind Of Plastic
Scientists from IBM Research have discovered “a new class of polymer materials” — plastic composites, regularly used in smartphones and laptops and cars and planes — that could potentially transform almost every electronic device you use every day. The new plastics are entirely recyclable, can self-heal, and are incredibly strong and light.