"IBM researchers [...] assembled a simulated mouse cortical hemisphere (that is, a functional half of a mouse brain) on one of the smaller BlueGene/L supercomputers. They then ran the simulation.

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"So why should any nation test-blast weapons anymore if supersimulators can do the job? Because, nuclear experts say, it has turned out to be tougher than most people thought to mimic the 'real t

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America wants its supercomputer speed record back the Energy Department is teaming up with Cray to break the petaflop barrier.

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IBM's Blue Gene shuffles sadly from the podium, as the world computing speed record moves back to the Land of the Rising Sun.

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RIP, ASCI Red. Seriously though, did they not consider selling it, cannibalising it or just giving it away to some destitute research facility? Strikes me as a bit of a waste.

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Pink Tentacle has the full shizzle on the Japanese petaflop computer project, to be unleashed later this month.

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'Petascale' means 'real damn fast', BTW.

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Shock horror - the scenario from the Armageddon movie wouldn't have been possible!

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No good for playing games, though; this is for *serious* numbercrunching.

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Big numbercrunchers to run advanced simulations and calculations, eg data analysis from the soon-to-be-completed LHC.

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Handheld supercomputers on the way!

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Using a Blue Gene Supercomputer, IBM and ETH Zurich labs say they have come up a new way to diagnose the widespread bone disease.

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