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HTC Announced at Mobile World Congress on Monday Its New Power to Give Project
Feb 28, 2014HTC announced at Mobile World Congress on Monday its new Power To Give project, which aims to donate processor power to scientific research. Planning on bringing together the power of millions of smartphones, the Android for altruism ...
Tags: smartphones, app, processor power
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China Has Maintained Its Lead in The Biannual Ranking
Nov 25, 2013China has maintained its lead in the biannual ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, with the Chinese National University of Defense Technology’s Tianhe-2 system bringing 33.86 petaflop/s (quadrillions of ...
Tags: China, Top Supercomputer, Saudi's Best Offering, 59th
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U. S. Makes a Top 10 Supercomputers That Can Help Make The Country More Competitive
Jul 23, 2013The federal government is making one of the most powerful supercomputers in its computing arsenal available to any U.S. businesses that can help make the country more competitive. The system is the 5 petaflop Vulcan (one petaflop equals ...
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Thinking War Machines Means to U.S. Security Are Growing Darker and More Dire
Jun 20, 2013WASHINGTON -- Unlike China and Europe, the U.S. has yet to adopt and fund an exascale development program, and concerns about what that means to U.S. security are growing darker and more dire. China's retaking of the global supercomputing ...
Tags: War Machines, Exascale
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The Supercomputing Arms Race Is Heating up Again Between The United States and China
Jun 17, 2013The supercomputing arms race is heating up again between the United States and China, as China retakes the top spot in the 41st Top500 listing of the world's most powerful supercomputers with Tianhe-2, an updated system that was able to ...
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China Has Produced a Supercomputer That May Be Recognized as The World's Fastest System
Jun 17, 2013China has produced a supercomputer capable of running at 54.9 petaflops that will likely be recognized as the world's fastest system in the forthcoming Top500 list of the world's most powerful computers. The new system -- called Tianhe-2, ...
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China Is Creating an Infrastructure to Create a Tech Industry
Jun 13, 2013China isn't just building supercomputers, it's creating an infrastructure to create a tech industry, according to Peter Beckman, a top computer scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and head of the DOE's ...
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The Chinese Government Spent About $290 Million on It
Jun 3, 2013China has produced a supercomputer capable of 54.9 petaflops, more than twice the speed of any system in the U.S., according to a U.S. researcher who was in China last week and learned the details. China's latest system was built with ...
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CSCS Will Upgrade Its Supercomputer with Nvidia Graphics Processors
Apr 11, 2013The Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) will upgrade its supercomputer with Nvidia graphics processors so the system can more accurately predict the weather in the Swiss Alps. By upgrading the Cray XC30 system, the CSCS wants to ...
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The Overall Spending Increase, Though Shows a Decline When Adjusted for Inflation
Apr 10, 2013WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's federal budget, released Wednesday, calls for increases in federal research and development spending. The overall spending increase, though shows a decline when adjusted for inflation. The White House ...
Tags: Computer Products, softeware
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IT's the End of The Line for Roadrunner That Reigned as World's Fastest Supercomputer
Apr 2, 2013IT'S the end of the line for Roadrunner, a first-of-its-kind collection of processors that once reigned as the world's fastest supercomputer. The $US121 million ($116m) supercomputer, housed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in northern ...
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The US Department of Energy Is Planning to Install 100+ Petaflop Supercomputers
Jan 22, 2013The US Department of Energy is planning to install 100+ petaflop supercomputers within the next four years as the famous national laboratories at Oak Ridge, Argonne and Lawrence Livermore upgrade to more powerful machines. The labs, which ...
Tags: supercomputers, powerful machines, US Department of Energy
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We Will See First Exascale Machine by 2020 If Increase in Supercomputer Speeds Continue
Dec 31, 2012If the increase in supercomputer speeds continue at their current pace, we will see the first exascale machine by 2020, according to the maintainers of the Top500 compilation of the world's fastest systems. System architects of ...
Tags: SC2012, Exascale Computing, US, IT technology
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The European Union Is Moving to Build a High-Performance Computing Industry
Dec 27, 2012The European Union is moving to build a high-performance computing industry to challenge U.S. dominance, but it doesn't want to play catch-up. It wants to leapfrog and it is seeing whether ARM Holdings technology can give it that edge. ...
Tags: European Union, ARM Holdings technology, ARM Chips, Supercomputing Edge
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IBM Has Unveiled a New Experimental Computer Chip
Dec 25, 2012IBM has unveiled a new experimental computer chip that it says mimics the human brain in that it perceives, acts and even thinks. It terms the machines built with these chips "cognitive computers", claiming that they are able to learn ...
Tags: IBM, computer chip, cognitive computers, Unveils Chips