Sure, the definition of supercomputer keeps changing all the time — today’s tablets are as powerful as supercomputers a couple of decades back — but for now, the core specifications of Western Australia’s latest processing monolith are to drool for. More »
Shades of Minority Report, anyone? Singularity Hub reports on the use of supercomputers to mine millions of news reports in order to more accurately predict political instability. It can’t quite read the future, yet, technically speaking. More »
Seymour Cray’s big super computer was crazy. It’s signals between components had to be timed by trimming long cables up to 1/16th of an inch at a time by hand and was basically interwoven with a giant refrigeration system. More »
