TechAndComputer (Nov. 16, 2010) The Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), already one of the world's leading centers for scientific productivity, is now home to the fifth most powerful supercomputer in the world and the second most powerful in the United States, according to the latest edition of the TOP500 list, the definitive ranking of the world's top computers.
NERSC's newest supercomputer, a...
TechAndComputer (Nov. 16, 2010) The Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), already one of the world's leading centers for scientific productivity, is now home to the fifth most powerful supercomputer in the world and the second most powerful...
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Supercomputing center breaks the petaflops barrier
- 16 November 2010
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'Chaogates' hold promise for the semiconductor industry
- 16 November 2010
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TechAndComputer (Nov. 17, 2010) In a move that holds great significance for the semiconductor industry, a team of researchers has created an alternative to conventional logic gates, demonstrated them in silicon, and dubbed them "chaogates." The researchers present their findings in Chaos, a journal published by the American Institute of Physics.
Simply put, they used chaotic patterns to encode and manipulate inputs to produce a desired output....
TechAndComputer (Nov. 17, 2010) In a...
Simply put, they used chaotic patterns to encode and manipulate inputs to produce a desired output....
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'Racetrack' magnetic memory could make computer memory 100,000 times faster
- 15 November 2010
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TechAndComputer (Nov. 15, 2010) Imagine a computer equipped with shock-proof memory that's 100,000 times faster and consumes less power than current hard disks. EPFL Professor Mathias Kläui is working on a new kind of "Racetrack" memory, a high-volume, ultra-rapid non-volatile read-write magnetic memory that may soon make such a device possible.
Annoyed by how long it took his computer to boot up, Kläui began to think about an alternative. Hard...
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Annoyed by how long it took his computer to boot up, Kläui began to think about an alternative. Hard...
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Supercomputer warfare: New research provides effective battle planning
- 11 November 2010
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TechAndComputer (Nov. 11, 2010) New research from the University of Warwick, to be presented at the World's largest supercomputing conference next week, pits China's new No. 1 supercomputer against alternative US designs. The work provides crucial new analysis that will benefit the battle plans of both sides, in an escalating war between two competing technologies.
Professor Stephen Jarvis, Royal Society Industry Fellow at the University of...
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Professor Stephen Jarvis, Royal Society Industry Fellow at the University of...
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Tiny brained bees solve a complex mathematical problem
- 25 October 2010
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TechAndComputer (Oct. 25, 2010) Bumblebees can find the solution to a complex mathematical problem which keeps computers busy for days.
Scientists at Royal Holloway, University of London and Queen Mary, University of London have discovered that bees learn to fly the shortest possible route between flowers even if they discover the flowers in a different order. Bees are effectively solving the 'Travelling Salesman Problem', and these are the...
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Scientists at Royal Holloway, University of London and Queen Mary, University of London have discovered that bees learn to fly the shortest possible route between flowers even if they discover the flowers in a different order. Bees are effectively solving the 'Travelling Salesman Problem', and these are the...
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