supercomputers
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You Need 1872 Processors To Accurately Simulate Ice Cream
If you think making ice cream is easy, think again. For commercial manufacturers of the stuff, perfecting the recipe is so important that they model its properties on a supercomputer — and to do it properly requires a rig packing 1872 processors.
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IBM’s $US43m Computer For The World’s Largest Radio Telescope
When it’s built, the Square Kilometre Array will be the world’s largest radio telescope. Then, when it goes online, it will spit out one million terabytes of data each day — and IBM is trying to make a computer which can handle it.
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IBM’s Watson Supercomputer Is Cashing In On Wall Street
A year ago, IBM’s Watson supercomputer bludgeoned human supernerds Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in Jeopardy. Since then, Watson’s been putting its natural language interpretation skills to work for health care organisations, but now it’s coming for the money: As of yesterday, Watson works for Citigroup, one of the biggest financial corporations in the world.
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Nano-Scale LEDs Toast Lasers When It Comes To Data Transfer
When it comes to transferring huge amounts of data in the fastest possible time, copper sucks. What you need to use is light. Until now that meant lasers — but nano-scale LEDs can do it with a fraction of the energy.