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The World’s Most Powerful Computer Network Is Being Wasted On Bitcoin
Bitcoin mining machines are insane powerhouses, and they’re only getting crazier. How much power is getting sunk into the digital cryptocurrency? More than the world’s top 500 supercomputers combined. What a waste.
World’s Fastest Computer Is Being Slowed Down By Too Much Gold
Last November, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Titan supercomputer was named the fastest in the world. But it turns out that a few tests were skipped along the way — and now too much gold on its motherboards means it can’t run at full tilt.
IBM’s Watson Got A Job As A Pastry Chef
Super computer Watson can crush puny humans at Jeopardy. It can do a pretty bang-up job as a doctor. It can swear up a storm. Two of those aren’t easy for a normal person, but that’s not enough for IBM. IBM wants more.
Monster Machines: How This Supercomputer Will Silence Jet Engines
The modern jet engine may be powerful enough to shuttle travellers across a continent in just six hours, but it’s also unbearably loud. Aircraft engineers are developing quieter designs, but building and testing these prototypes can be costly. With the help of Livermore National Labs’ supercomputer and open-source modelling software, commercial airliners may soon be whisper quiet.
The Smartest Computer In The World Also Has The Dirtiest Mouth
We already knew Ken Jennings thought IBM’s Jeopardy-winning supercomputer was a jerk, but he’s not alone. Developers at IBM were forced to wipe part of Watson’s memory once they realised their hyperintelligent computer had turned into a bit of a smartass.
IBM’s Watson Supercomputer Is About To Start Helping Real People With Medical Problems
Last year, Watson beat humans in a battle of wits. Starting this fall, IBM’s insanely intelligent supercomputer will begin diagnosing patients at New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer centre.
Monster Machines: The Supercomputer That Houses An Entire Universe
Over a span of two weeks in October, the Mira supercomputer will crank away nonstop, processing quadrillions of operations every second — something that few other machines are currently capable of doing. It will simultaneously track trillions of particles as they move, expand and react to each other according to the laws of physics.
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