The trick to fast search is to crunch the algorithm on a National Security Agency-class supercomputer.
The Stampede supercomputer will be the first major rollout of these new chips, TACC scientists say.
If your brilliant idea requires a supercomputer and a platoon of contractors, forget it.
The question now is whether IBM can combine its nanotechnology with its supercomputer technology.
Watson is over one thousand times faster than a 1980s state-of-the-art defense department supercomputer.
FORBES: IBM's Watson Jeopardy Stunt Unleashes a Third Great Cycle in Computing
Altogether, that is more than 23 times faster than IBM's first supercomputer, introduced in 1993.
The supercomputer, named PRIMEHPC FX10, will be available as of January, and its specifications are impressive.
It will take a supercomputer to figure out what all this will do to each taxpayer.
Similarly, a supercomputer like Tianhe-1A relies heavily on CPUs to get work done, Gupta explains.
Jini also allows your little PalmPilot to draw unused processing power from a supercomputer.
In the U.S., said Steve Conway, a supercomputer analyst at market researcher IDC, in Framingham, Mass.
The supercomputer effort isn't dogged by charges that the Chinese have ripped off foreign technology.
Today China also has the fastest trains and the fastest supercomputer in the world.
Understanding this could lead, it's hoped, to an entirely new way of powering energy-hungry supercomputer systems.
IBM's Watson supercomputer is to help train doctors at a medical school in Cleveland, Ohio.
Cycle delivers high-bandwidth supercomputer capabilities to scientific, engineering and technical firms many of which are startups.
FORBES: How Cloud Computing is Fueling the Next Startup Boom
It looks almost like real paper, but it takes a supercomputer to render full-motion video on it.
Previously code-named "Cascade, " the Cray XC30 supercomputer is the Company's most-advanced high performance computing system ever built.
ENGADGET: Cray unleashes 100 petaflop XC30 supercomputer with up to a million Intel Xeon cores
U.S. supercomputer centers nearly always focus on advanced scientific research, such as designing drugs tailored to individuals.
If practical, development of a quantum computer could create a supercomputer with a billion-fold increase in performance.
Fifteen years ago IBM finally beat chess master Garry Kasparov with its 1.4-ton Deep Blue supercomputer.
Eliza's technology also could be used in Blue Gene, IBM's supercomputer under development and aimed for biotechnology research.
Parallel computing has been the holy grail of supercomputer design almost since the dawn of the silicon age.
The IBM supercomputer Watson beating humans at Jeopardy is a recent example of how they have applied research.
FORBES: IBM's Palmisano: How You Get To Be A 100-Year Old Company
The Nvidia supercomputer, for example, uses one-third the power of a comparable machine powered solely by x86 CPUs.
Since the crash Cisco has overhauled its internal network, transforming it into something akin to a cunning supercomputer.
Joy has cooked up a scheme to link any digital device -- palmtop to supercomputer -- with another.
Seymour Cray, the supercomputer genius of the 1970s, had a form of parallelism with his vector- processing computers.
The supercomputer system brings together leading-edge technologies for high performance and high reliability.
ENGADGET: Fujitsu K supercomputer now ranked fastest in the world, dethrones China's Tianhe-1A
Lashing together multiple processors to create a virtual supercomputer is a popular parlor trick in academia and government research.
应用推荐