If finished immediately, the machine would be one of the five fastest supercomputers in the world.
The government implemented the MTOPS measurement in the early 1990s to differentiate supercomputers from low-end computers.
Fujitsu expects to sell about 50 supercomputers over the course of the next three years.
Businesses have bought nearly 60 of the world's largest supercomputers in the past year alone.
All using supercomputers in the cloud, paid for by the megabyte or the minute.
And supercomputers, so small as to be nearly invisible, are embedded all around you.
The chips use pulses of light to communicate between chips in servers, racks and supercomputers.
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New machines from IBM and EMC will replace the supercomputers used to sequence the human genome.
It remains one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, but has been replaced by something even faster.
Moreover, for one of the world's largest supercomputers, it achieved an extraordinarily high computing efficiency ratio of 93.0%.
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Last June, AMD's chips were in 34 of the top 500 supercomputers, while Intel's chips were in 284.
AMD's superior graphics technologies are found in a variety of solutions ranging from game consoles, PCs to supercomputers.
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"One challenge in supercomputers today is power consumption, " said Jeff Nichols, associate laboratory director for computing and computational sciences.
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Celera's business plan relies on developing the best databases of medical information, and it needs supercomputers to do that.
At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, they're using supercomputers to get a lot more power out of our nuclear facilities.
This could be used to make supercomputers more stable and reliable, and make servers less vulnerable to hacker attacks.
Today, its processors power a broad range of products from smartphones to supercomputers.
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The news is a shift for MIPS, which has long been associated with the world of embedded processors and supercomputers.
Fibre-optic cables will link each of these dishes to a central processing area, where supercomputers will stitch their data together.
Maybe a quarter of the space holds five 10-ton Cray supercomputers from the 1970s "the golden age of computing, " says Myhrvold.
In the mid-1960s Control Data was producing the world's most powerful supercomputers, but strangely enough couldn't sell very many of them.
Parallel processing is a technology most commonly associated with supercomputers, and the graphics processing units found in PCs and gaming consoles.
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How he did it is beyond my comprehension, though his secret must have been some alchemy of supercomputers and superb taste.
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Second, while Dell has made headway building supercomputers, they lack the second part of the puzzle, a natural language processing solution.
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Many scientists have started using graphics cards as number-crunching engines because they are cheaper and easier to use than traditional supercomputers.
True supercomputers are irreplaceable for some scientific problems, such as weather forecasting, where many processors must communicate frequently with one another.
Indeed, he was arrested at age 11 for hacking into NSA supercomputers.
Three of the top five supercomputers are powered by Nvidia GPUs.
The oil industry uses supercomputers to trawl seismic data before drilling wells.
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