Future nanodevices will be structures that are extremely small, and that will play a huge host of roles, both in the human body and in the industry. However, in order to make them operational, very small wires, called nanowires, are needed. These structures are made from such materials as gold, silver or, in some... |
30 October 2009
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Scientists at the US Department Of Energy's (DOE) Los Alamos National Laboratory have recently started running their model of the unseen Universe on the world's fastest supercomputer, the IBM Roadrunner. The team that manages the simulation is part of the Nuclear and Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmo... |
27 October 2009
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According to an updated list of the world's Top 500 fastest computer systems, IBM's powerful Roadrunner supercomputer, installed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, has managed to keep the number-one spot for the second year in a row. The said system was closely followed by Cray's Jaguar supercomput... |
24 June 2009
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IBM announced last weekend that it had managed to break down the supercomputing's petaflop barrier with its RoadRunner system, which is capable of processing more than one thousand trillion (one quadrillion) sustained floating-point operations per second. Now, it is time for supercomputer developers to turn thei... |
10 June 2008
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The US Department of Energy has announced recently that it currently owns the world's fastest supercomputer, the 'RoadRunner', designed and built to operate on video game console processors. The RoadRunner is allegedly capable of executing 1,000 trillion computations per second, or a petaflop, while th... |
10 June 2008
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