Tag: SUPER COMPUTER

China just knocked the U.S. down a notch by unveiling the Tianhe-1A, the world's fastest supercomputer. Chugging along at just over 2.5 petaflops, the supercomputer outpaces the former title holder, the Cray Jaguar, which can plow through calculations at 2.3 petaflops. The Tianhe-1A is powered by 14,336 Intel CPUs and 7,168 NVIDIA GPUs, which should make for one hell of a gaming rig. ...

Years after building a computer called Deep Blue that gave chess champion Garry Kasparov a run for his money, IBM is now taking aim at another human-only intellectual pursuit -- 'Jeopardy!' IBM is developing a supercomputer, along with an accompanying program called Watson, to compete on the popular game show, and may even face off against the painfully brilliant Ken Jennings, who holds the ...

About six months ago, IBM unveiled Roadrunner, a super computer built to maintain our nation's nuclear arsenal. Roadrunner was twice as fast as BluGene/L, the fastest computer on Earth for three years running. But if you thought Roadrunner was impressive, you haven't seen anything yet. IBM has begun work on Sequoia, a new super computer for the Department of Energy (DoE) that will also help ...