The National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) brought its new petaflop-scale supercomputer online this month, joining a very rarefied club of systems that can reach a thousand trillion calculations per second
Nvidia showed off a new GPU architecture on Wednesday that it hopes will allow it to move beyond gaming to play a greater role in the supercomputing market.
They aren't selling personal supercomputers at Best Buy just yet. But that day probably isn't too far off, as the costs fall and they become easier to use.
The U.S. has upgraded the supercomputer used to develop weather forecast models, a system so critical to meteorologists that the government has bought a second, identical system as a backup.
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