supercomputer

We don't seem to have a general thread for these, but I always find the Top500 list and associated discussions fairly interesting. The latest Top500 can be found here, and there's an article about it here. Some of the trends are quite interesting. In particular, GPUs/co-processors have been...

Is this for real? Why isn't it making more headlines? I want one. #textCarousel { width: 140px; border-color: #360; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; padding: 10px; float: right; margin: 15px 0 15px 15px; background-image: url(/i/ne05/fmwk/greyfadeback.jpg); background-repeat...

http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=166402412 Japan plans to develop a supercomputer that can operate at 10 petaflops by 2011. Ray Kurzweil thinks that 10 petaflops is a conservative estimate of the computational capacity of the human brain.

Playstation turns Supercomputer - BBC This is the homepage for the group orgainising the project. It's always nice to see thinking "outside the box" ;) Graham