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Imagine a single supercomputer able to out-perform 50 million laptops, and capable of performing a staggering one quintillion (billion billion) operations per second. Expect that supercomputer to be operating this decade, experts say.
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Watson, the IBM supercomputer who answered "Jeopardy" questions with precise accuracy and at rapid-fire speeds, is now becoming a doctor. Watson is soon to become a bedside medical assistant to help medical professionals.
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Imagine a typical conversation between two humans. Exchanges of thought and insight are portrayed through a natural understanding of common language. Until IBM's Watson, modern day technology has only scratched the surface of cognitive interaction.
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At the SC09 supercomputing conference in Portland, Oregon last week, IBM unveiled a software simulation of a mammalian cerebral cortex more complex than the cerebral cortex of a cat.
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IBM wants to replicate its success they enjoyed with Deep Blue in defeating world chess champion Garry Kasparov by creating a program to conquer the popular TV quiz game show Jeopardy!
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IBM is renowned for producing some of the most powerful computers in the world. With the under development 'Sequoia', the Big Blue promises to go a few leaps forward.
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IBM has unveiled a new supercomputer called Hydro-Cluster that uses water to cool the hardware instead of the conventional air cooling. This method will reduce energy consumption by 40 per cent and use 80 per cent fewer air conditioners.
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Got a Playstation 3? Know somebody who has one? Then you can help biomedical research by donating your machine's computing capacity to scientific research when you're not playing.
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The Europeans will build a new supercomputer. PRACE, a new organization, was launched recently to increase the availability of computing power, due to demand from science and industry. Drawing up the plans alone will take two years and cost E20 million.
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BusinessWeek says Google is one Giant Computer and more.
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The Met Office needs new supercomputers to issue confident extreme weather warnings and more accurate long-term forecasts, a group of MPs says.
The Met Office needs new supercomputers to make confident extreme weather warnings and more accurate long-term forecasts, a group of MPs says.
Nvidia unveils a new GPU which it says should help the the US overtake Japan to claim the world's fastest supercomputer.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Hospital has partnered with IBM to use the technology company's Watson supercomputer to help diagnose cancer patients.
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The CDC 6600 and 6400 supercomputers, used for high energy nuclear physics research at the University of California at Berkeley in 1964.
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By now, you've likely heard about Watson, the supercomputer IBM built to take on the best-of-the-best in the game show...
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