Europe, the US, Japan and China are racing to develop the next generation of supercomputer – exascale machines - capable of a million trillion calculations a second by 2020. But why do we need computers as fast as powerful as this? ...
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The next generation of supercomputers will require a radical re-think in technology, as computer design begins to run up against the limits of Moore's law. Research is underway around the world to develop supercomputers containing ...
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The US has overtaken Japan in the race to develop the world's fastest supercomputer. The Sequoia computer at Lawrence Livermoor National Laboratory was today named the most powerful supercomputer,capable of 16.32 petaflop/s. It ...
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Japan's K computer,ranked last year as the world's most powerful supercomputer,is expected to drive breakthroughs in engineering,medicine and science when it enters live operation in October. The machine,developed by Fujitsu and Japan's ...
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