May 18, 2013

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Chinese Supercomputer “Tianhe-1A(Milky Way)” Breaks the Record of World’s Fastest

Chinese Supercomputer Tianhe 1A Milky Way

China’s National University of Defense Technology set a new performance record for these super machines. Built by the National University of Defense Technology, located at the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, a supercomputer was revealed on Thursday at the annual meeting of National High Performance Computing (HPC China 2010) in Beijing. The machine, called Tianhe-1A [...]

IBM Watson Supercomputer Could Play Jeopardy

IBM Watson Supercomputer

For years Google’s search engine has ruled the Web story-finding world, but its interface is far from perfect: Even with the new voice-recognition front-end, it’s not like asking an expert to answer your question. Enter IBM with “Watson.” Watson is able to win at Jeopardy, which translates to it being able to really understand language. [...]