supercomputer

Seven Questions With IBM’s Manoj Saxena About Watson and Cancer

Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 4 at 7:00 am PT

IBM’s game-show winning, human-humiliating supercomputer has a new gig: Helping doctors treat patients with cancer.

Fujitsu Supercomputer Remains World Champ, but IBM and Intel Are the Real Computing Kings

Arik Hesseldahl in News on November 14, 2011 at 5:58 am PT

The latest edition of the semiannual Top 500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers is out. Strangely, there’s no movement among the Top 10, and yet there’s still plenty to talk about.

This Supercomputer Defeated Human Champions of a TV Game Show in 2011

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 13, 2011 at 3:19 pm PT

Answer: What is IBM’s Watson? The supercomputer training for an expected TV debut next month on “Jeopardy” won a practice round today.

Supercomputers Fuel Competition

Don Clark, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 15, 2010 at 7:51 am PT

China’s installation of the world’s fastest supercomputer is galvanizing efforts by U.S. government agencies and companies to restore American leadership in the technology, a key tool in such fields as climate research, product design and weapons development.

Chinese Supercomputer Likely to Prompt Unease in U.S.

Don Clark, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 28, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

A newly built supercomputer in China appears poised to take the world performance lead, another sign of the country’s growing technological prowess that is likely to set off alarms about U.S. competitiveness and national security.

D8 Tech Demo: OnLive

Drake Martinet in D8 on June 3, 2010 at 10:16 am PT

On-demand streaming has crept into nearly every media space, and today, OnLive hopes to open the last door and bring high-end games to users, streamed from the cloud.

Faster Supercomputers: Your Tax Dollars at Work

Don Clark, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 13, 2009 at 4:34 pm PT

On Monday, researchers will release a twice-yearly list of the 500 biggest computers in the world. The latest rankings should provide some new clues about high tech’s relentless speed race, and how it’s being funded.

Ah, But Is It Vista Capable?

John Paczkowski in News on June 18, 2008 at 7:36 am PT

It’s likely a challenge to program and a bitch to debug, but IBM’s new Roadrunner supercomputer is the most powerful in the world. With 12,240 cell processors typically found in Sony’s PlayStation 3 console and another 6,562 dual-core AMD Opteron chips, Roadrunner has been benchmarked at 1.026 petaflops (1.026 quadrillion calculations per second).