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Entries Tagged ‘Supercomputer’

Brilliance Speaks: A rare talk by Seymour Cray


Tweet Seymour Cray’s name is legend. It adorns some of the fastest, most striking computers ever built. It is synonymous with supercomputing and evokes unparalleled architectural notions that are impossible to ignore for any student of high performance computing. He is perhaps the greatest computer architect ever, and while his area of focus was on [...]

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Pakistani Computer Scientist wins global Supercomputer Design Award


Tweet Pakistan has produced a lot of computer science talent that is powering not only our local industry but also academia and research. As they are incredibly interesting and important areas, distributed systems, parallelism and supercomputing have attracted the attention of many of our brightest stars. These areas have almost been fused together lately, with [...]

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IBM/Dept. of Energy's Roadrunner Supercomputer achieves a petaflop, but no Singularity yet


Tweet There’s too much background to this headline for me to bring you up to speed in a short blog post. Suffice to say, one of my favourite authors and an all round Bright Guy, Ray Kurzweil, wrote a series of books culminating in his latest work, “The Singularity is Near“. In these books Ray [...]

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