supercomputers
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IBM’s Watson Is Now The Size Of Three Pizza Boxes — It’s Also A Billionaire
IBM just put the pedal to the metal on Watson’s crawl towards relevance. The company just announced a $US1 billion investment, giving the supercomputer its own business division as well as an office in New York City’s Astor Place.
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CERN’s Voltron For Computers Now Supports Android Devices
For the past five years, the mad scientists at CERN have been connecting their computers to colleagues’ around the world to pool their processing power. This so-called Worldwide Grid turns a regular old desktop into a supercomputer by just plugging in. Now it will do the same with smartphones and tablets.
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Google And NASA Are Building The Future Of AI With A Quantum Supercomputer
Google and NASA have announced that they’re teaming up to create a laboratory focused on developing the future of artificial intelligence — using quantum supercomputers.
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World’s Fastest Computer Is Being Slowed Down By Too Much Gold
Last November, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Titan supercomputer was named the fastest in the world. But it turns out that a few tests were skipped along the way — and now too much gold on its motherboards means it can’t run at full tilt.