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World’s fastest supercomputer, Titan, plugged into life by DOE
Speed isn’t a thrill in cars alone. Take the world’s fastest supercomputer, Titan, for example. This amazing contraption resides in DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory facility and can handle 20,000 trillion calculations a second. This makes it 10 times faster than the company’s existing Jaguar supercomputer, which had earlier staked the claim of being the…
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Israeli software confirms Bible to be written by two separate groups of people
Technology today can help bring back the past and shed light on it. Moshe Koppel and his team of Israeli scholars of the Bar Ilan University near Tel Aviv have come up with software that has helped researchers confirm the theory that the Hebrew Bible, the Aleppo Codex, was written by multiple authors over time,…
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IBM’s supercomputer Watson to battle ‘Jeopardy’ contestants in a wit battle
What could one do to avoid the wrath of a brilliantly constructed supercomputer at a quiz event? I don’t know either. But, maybe the fateful contestants of Jeopardy, a quiz show, will have better explanation to give, once Watson’s done with them. The three episodes of the show will be broadcast between Feb 14th and…
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IBM master superchip for supercomputers
The future of computing was to always promise unbelievable capabilities. But this news from IBM’s brain boys gives us more than a hint of what lies ahead for at least supercomputers. The chip that the company has developed is spun out of a technology that uses electricity and light, called nanophotonics. With this, electrical and…
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DOD uses 1,760 Sony PlayStations for Super computer, talk about a God of War
So Sony has taken their PlayStation to the DOD (Depart of Defense) but if you think those guys are just sitting there playing COD think again. The power of 1,760 PlayStations was harnessed by the DOD for their new supercomputer that’s going to be placed at the Dayton, Ohio-based Air Force Research Laboratory network. The…
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IBM supercomputer with Aquasar cooling system is online, the Swiss get warm while the computer stays cool
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) is has just received a supercomputer with the Aquasar cooling system. This is a system that’s cooled by hot water (????) and has been developed by IBM. IBM says this is the beginning of “a new era in energy-aware computing”. This system is designed to consume…
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Stanford University develops way how future computers could be super thin using Paper supercapacitors
Are you sick of those bulky netbooks or laptops and oversized computer rigs? Well if you are, the future says things are going to be better and better looking. I’m not talking about Hollywood feeding us futuristic bit of information but the very reknowned Stanford University who very recently found a way to have make…
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The NEX, NASA’s supercomputer
NASA is all set for its newest launch on Monday, this time though, it isn’t a space shuttle. NASA will launch its supercomputing application called NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) which enables study, model and analyze earth science data sets on a larger scale. That’s not all. The app will also work as a social-networking environment…
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ASUS intros its first Supercomputer ESC 1000
ASUS offers desktops, laptops, netbooks, and nettops. The only thing remaining in ASUS’ computer line up was a supercomputer. And with the introduction of ESC 1000, ASUS even filled up that void. The first Asus supercomputer is powered by latest Intel Xeon proceossor, and relies on NVIDIA GPUs for its graphics prowess. It is designed…
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SGI Octane III – your personal supercomputer
It is a think of the past now that supercomputers can be only with the big hi-tech companies. SGI has launched the first personal super-computer. The Octane III is ready for office use and can be equipped with single or dual-socket node choices. The Intel 1-way model is powered by 19 Intel Atom dual core…
