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What China's supercomputing push means for the U.S.
2013-06-10 16:15:39| InfoWorld: Top News
China isn't just building supercomputers, it's creating an infrastructure to create a tech industry, according to Peter Beckman, a top computer scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and head of the DOE's exascale initiative.
Supercomputing director bets $2,000 that we wont have exascale computing by 2020
2013-05-17 16:11:23| Extremetech
The Deputy Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has put $2000 of his own money on a bet that we won't have exascale computing by 2020, but still believes the endeavor is vital to long-term US interests and scientific discovery.
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Nvidias GTX Titan brings supercomputing performance to consumers
2013-02-19 15:00:48| Extremetech
Nvidia's new GTX Titan is a supercomputing graphics processor repurposed for the consumer space. Details, specifications, and a discussion of how this card fits into Nvidia's GeForce lineup are all available inside.
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Stanford researchers break million-core supercomputing barrier
2013-01-29 13:53:47| Extremetech
In a world where quad-core computers are currently the norm, and eight-core processors available for purchase are somewhat rare, computers with more cores might a little unimaginable. A team at Stanford has dwarfed that rare eight-core processor by using a supercomputer that employs over one million cores to solve a complex problem.
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