supercomputers
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IBM’s Watson Got A Job As A Pastry Chef
Super computer Watson can crush puny humans at Jeopardy. It can do a pretty bang-up job as a doctor. It can swear up a storm. Two of those aren’t easy for a normal person, but that’s not enough for IBM. IBM wants more.
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Cray’s Titan Supercomputer Is The Fastest In The World
Cray’s Titan supercomputer has snatched the title of world’s fastest from the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sequoia — and it’s cray fast, as you might expect.
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Watson Supercomputer Heads To The Cloud
Watson, the Jeopardy-winning supercomputer developed by IBM, could become a cloud-based service that people can consult on a wide range of issues. According to IBM, Watson is being prepared for a role in “financial services and in other applications”.
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Future Supercomputers Could Be Powered By Your Smartphone
Cluster computing — the concept of stringing together devices to act as a single processing unit — isn’t a new idea. But your phone could soon be acting as a node in just such a device, helping to crack tough computational problems.