Tag: SUPERCOMPUTER

Share Last night, five members of Congress thought it would be fun to stage a trivia challenge against Watson -- the IBM supercomputer that made the world feel stupid last month on 'Jeopardy!'. As it did brainiacs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, Watson absolutely bulldozed its Congressional competition -- with one notable exception. Rep. Rush Holt, a New Jersey Democrat, actually defeated the ...

When 'Jeopardy' legends Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter face off against IBM's Watson supercomputer next month, they'll be going up against a machine that clearly knows a thing or two about... well, everything. Yesterday, Watson went head-to-head in a practice 'Jeopardy' round against Jennings and Rutter -- the Ruth and Gehrig of televised trivia. Not surprisingly, all three contestants proved ...

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. ...

Computers have been beating humans at games for a while now. Remember IBM's Deep Blue, which beat chess champ Gary Kasparov way back in 1997? More recently, IBM developed a supercomputer that could defeat a human at 'Jeopardy.' Despite these advances, computers haven't overthrown the human race -- yet. But, according to The Mainichi Daily News a computer dubbed Akara 2010 recently defeated ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Apple sold 300,000 iPads almost immediately after the device's release, and -- after just two months -- the tablet has reached another noteworthy sales milestone. Consumers have reportedly purchased 2 million iPads, a number that has certainly been aided by the gadget's recent European release. The ability for consumers to pay for the ...

Readers, IBM has been developing a supercomputer that could compete with human brainiacs on the quiz show 'Jeopardy' -- and it scares the hell out of us. Let's forget, for a moment, that we've been transported back to 1997 when IBM's Deep Blue machine beat world-champion Garry Kasparov in a chess match, solidifying both hopes and fears that computers would one day outsmart their creators. (And ...

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 ...

When you're looking to set a record, this is how you do it. Not only has IBM's Roadrunner supercomputer come on-line, it's now the world's fastest -- twice as fast as the old BluGene/L champ -- and churning through 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second. The $133 million supercomputer achieved the milestone with the help of 12,960 "improved" Cell processors (yes, like those powering your ...

A smart computer is growing at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate NY. It's not the beginnings of Skynet (we hope) and won't be able to drive your car for you or do anything else you might consider practical. But, if everything goes right, it might just be able to fool you into thinking it's human, becoming the first such device to pass the benchmark Turing Test. In 1950 computer science ...