For the past several years, Amazon has been quietly building one of the fastest cloud networks in the history of computers. Except it doesn’t exist in any room — it’s spread across the entire world. Virtual computers are now supercomputers. More »
IBM’s Watson is most famous for handing Ken Jennings his arse on Jeopardy, but since then the supercomputer’s talents have been used to help doctors diagnose and treat disease. But Watson’s greatest trick might still be ahead of it: beating back the scourge of patent trolls. More »
When it comes to transferring huge amounts of data in the fastest possible time, copper sucks. What you need to use is light. Until now that meant lasers — but nano-scale LEDs can do it with a fraction of the energy. More »
All the hype surrounding Amazon at the moment centres on the Kindle Fire. But behind the scenes, they’ve been developing one of the world’s most powerful super computers — and it powers the Fire’s browser, Silk. More »
The H1N1 flu pandemic killed 17,000 people across the globe between 2009 and 2010. Pretty terrifying. To prevent that from ever happening again, scientists have created a super-detailed computer model of the killer virus. More »
The K supercomputer just got a bit quicker, boosting its computational output to 10.5 quadrillion calculations per second and making it the speediest number-crunching system on the planet. More »
