IBM’s Sequoia supercomputer takes first place for world’s fastest, and brings the title back to the US. full story ![]()
This undated handout photo provided by IBM shows lead engineer Don Grice of IBM inspecting the world’s fastest com
rdrnews.com (1 month and 24 days ago)
IBM’s Watson supercomputer has beaten expert “Jeopardy” quiz show contestants, and its predecessor defeated a world chess champion. Now, doctors hope it can help them outsmart cancer. Oncologists at two medical groups have started to test IBM’s Watson’s supercomputer system in an effort to improve speed and efficacy of treatments, ...
bangordailynews.com (3 months and 15 days ago)
The University of Florida announced today that it has installed a new supercomputer that's capable of processing at a speed of 157 TeraFLOPS, making it the fastest supercomputer in the state of Florida, and among the top 200 supercomputers in the world.
forbes.com (18 days ago)
(Reuters) - IBM's Watson supercomputer has beaten expert "Jeopardy" quiz show contestants, and its predecessor defeated a world chess champion. Now, doctors hope it can help them outsmart cancer.
reuters.com (3 months and 15 days ago)
The people behind the $300 million Blue Waters supercomputer project at the University of Illinois are celebrating this week. The computer is now up and running. It is one of the world's fastest supercomputers and can maintain a speed standard known as a petaflop, which allows unusually complex calculations. In late 2011 it looked like the project might never be finished....
pjstar.com (2 months and 1 day ago)
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- IBM achieved a feat two years ago when the tech giant's Watson supercomputer beat two human champions in the Jeopardy TV quiz. Now keen to bring high-end computing to the corporate masses, IBM unveiled the first commercial Watson-based technologies on Friday. The company picked the lucrative health-care sector as the launch pad for this effort,...
thestreet.com (3 months and 16 days ago)
The aging supercomputer still cracks the top-25 for the world's fastest; it just sucks a lot of juice in the process.
pcmag.com (1 month and 24 days ago)

It's the end of the line for Roadrunner, a first-of-its-kind collection of processors that once reigned as the world's fastest supercomputer.
dailymail.co.uk (1 month and 23 days ago)
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- IBM CEO Ginni Rometty gave a peek into the company's efforts to make money out off its Watson supercomputer during her first public speech since taking the tech giant's reins last year. The Armonk, N.Y.-based firm unveiled the first commercial technologies based on its Watson supercomputer earlier this year, targeting the lucrative health care sector....
thestreet.com (2 months and 19 days ago)
IBM is putting its Watson supercomputer to work fighting cancer by having it sift through millions of pages of oncology research.
news.com.au (3 months and 12 days ago)
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