I flew to Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn., last week to "meet" Jaguar, the world's third-fastest supercomputer.
Maybe everything really is bigger in Texas.
Buying a supercomputer costs millions of dollars, then thousands more each year to maintain it. That's not to mention the hefty electric bill to keep the massive system running.
At a supercomputing convention that just wrapped up in New Orleans, Louisiana, the potent effects of Hurricanes in big plastic cups paled in comparison with the raw power of a tiny silicon chip.
China is an emerging superpower, and now, also an emerging supercomputer power.
The United States no longer owns the world's fastest supercomputer.
Stereotypical images of Africa, as a global backwater plagued by poverty, disease, conflict and corruption, hide some encouraging realities. Democracy has taken root across the continent. The African economy is expanding briskly. So, too, are opportunities for businesses.
Vern Raburn is gunning his 500-horsepower Ford Shelby GT on a high desert road behind the airport in Albuquerque, N.M. He hits a pothole but just presses harder on the gas. After all, he has strugg...
The chess match between Garry Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue in 1997 was the showdown of man vs. machine: the world's greatest chess player versus the world's greatest chess-playing computer.
Supercomputers don't come draped in a cape or tights, but they're heroic nonetheless.
Racing to solve the world's most urgent problems - and to out do one another in global rankings - supercomputer designers have unleashed almost unimaginable power. A look inside the vast, chilled r...
Kids aiming to persuade their parents to buy the PlayStation 3 have some new ammunition -- donating their PS3's down time to researchers could help cure Alzheimer's, Parkinson's or mad cow disease.
Pop quiz: What new technology has the United States and Japan engaged in the virtual equivalent of the Space Race? The surprising answer: It's biotech.
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To understand how advances in computing technology are affecting the petroleum industry, look no further than the Pod. Designed by Landmark Graphics, a unit of Halliburton that specializes in developing software for oil companies, the Pod is an Imax-style viewing room powered by a supercomputer.
The best roadmap to IBM's hardware future is the amazing thumbnail-sized processor known as the Cell chip--the heart, soul, and brain of the new Sony PlayStation 3 game box. Of course, since this i...
By the middle of the 21st century it will be possible to download your brain to a supercomputer, according to a leading thinker on the future.
The theft of software from a Cisco Systems network last year was only part of a series of widespread attacks that breached thousands of computer systems, federal officials and security investigators now say.
Imagine plunking down $100,000 and walking away with your very own supercomputer. The low-cost computing revolution means you can now get that result with a handful of off-the-shelf components. By ...
Business 2.0: Hits & Missesupdated: Wed Dec 01 2004 00:01:00
[HIT] Desperate marketing. When your network's in last place, using on-air promos is a surefire way to keep it there, since you'll only reach your own ever-shrinking ranks of loyal viewers. So ABC ...
NASA researchers have teamed up with a pair of Silicon Valley firms to build a supercomputer that ranks alongside the world's largest Linux-based systems.
The most powerful modern computers are no match for Mother Nature. Those silicon weaklings can hardly predict the weather, let alone mimic the workings of the human brain. Give them a task as simpl...
Technology stocks snapped back from two straight sessions of declines Tuesday as a strong consumer confidence reading encouraged investors to dip back into the market.
Sam Palmisano has reason to feel good. Two years ago he took over one of the biggest jobs in American business and, along with it, the mantle that had been worn by now-legendary CEO Lou Gerstner. ...
If someone told you that the greatest competitive weapon available to businesses today was sitting unused and generally undiscovered in every department of every company, you'd suspect it was an ex...
The darkest times, the years Cray Inc. employees came to call "the occupation," began in 1996. One of the earliest signs of trouble was, strangely enough, the Beach Boys. It was summer, just a few ...
On a recent December morning, mutual fund manager Harold Bradley looked over the Twentieth Century Heritage portfolio he helps run and decided that the fund's performance--and the interests of his ...
When Bell Atlantic and Nynex combined their cellular telephone operations three years ago, Bell Atlantic CEO Ray Smith was asked if the move might foreshadow a merger of the two companies. No, he s...
Conventional wisdom says you must attend an Ivy League or similarly elitist institution to have a shot at the executive suite. A look through the alumni directory of the decidedly egalitarian Unive...
DESPITE his widely noted disavowal last summer of the need for a vision for IBM, Lou Gerstner has one. It's clear and specific. The company he sees will know how to seize more opportunities than it...
YOU SAW IT in Jurassic Park: The dinosaurs are at the door, about to burst into the control room and eat the people. Two scientists fight desperately to hold the door shut. Frantically, a child at ...
REMEMBER that pudgy kid in the eighth grade, the one who liked to concoct bombs in his mom's kitchen? Now he's one of America's premier software designers. Or that other brat, the one who got in tr...
Fortune: COMPANIES TO WATCHupdated: Mon Apr 06 1992 00:01:00
VITESSE SEMICONDUCTOR After languishing for two decades in obscure defense industry applications, gallium arsenide semiconductors are speeding toward the commercial arena. Vitesse Semiconductor of ...
IMAGINE A PROCESSOR more powerful than a mighty supercomputer of just a few years ago. It's your PC, telephone, fax machine, and VCR all rolled into one. You dictate to it, write on it, or type in ...
IN HIS State of the Union address in January, President Bush asked, ''Which of our citizens will lead us in this next American century?'' The answer, in part, can be found here and on the following...
INSIDE a darkened computer lab in Seattle, a Boeing engineering executive named Keith Butler dons a bulky headset equipped with blacked-out goggles and pulls on a Lycra glove bristling with wires. ...
He never got a college degree, yet he was one of the tiny band of visionaries who founded computer maker Data General in 1968. But except for two years he spent at Encore Computer, not much has bee...
DOES THIS INDUSTRY sound as if it's in trouble? Last year computer hardware and software sales in the U.S. grew by about 10% -- triple the rate of the overall economy -- and accounted for 2% of the...
Fortune: NOW HEAR THIS updated: Mon Dec 18 1989 00:01:00
KENNETH H. OLSEN, 63, founder and president of Digital Equipment, on what priority the U.S. should give to technological leadership in supercomputers: ''Supercomputers are important, but they don't...
IF YOU THINK you have seen surprises from Japan, stick around. Responding to fire-breathing challenges from Korea and other growing Asian dragons, the folks who brought you the Walkman, the VCR, an...
AS MANAGEMENT SAW IT, the ETA supercomputer was going to make Control Data a serious competitor in the scientific computing field once again. But by last spring the project had absorbed some $350 m...
The Big Three U.S. automakers are so tightfisted that they are losing their edge in engineering design to foreign competitors. So says John Rollwagen, chairman of Cray Research, the supercomputer m...
Having a big rival drop out of your business sounds like nothing but good news. But Cray Research may have lost its worldwide competitive edge now that Control Data, the only other U.S. supercomput...
Fortune: SPUTNIK RECALLEDupdated: Mon Aug 29 1988 00:01:00
A Minnesota lad named Noah entered the third grade last fall, and that event jogged the memory of his father, Carl S. Ledbetter, president of ETA Systems, the supercomputer subsidiary of Control Da...
JOHN SCULLEY, chairman of Apple Computer, turns to a VCR in his gadget-crammed office and pops in a cassette. ''Let me show you how the Macintosh will work in a large corporate network,'' he says. ...
THE SLIM, casually dressed man walks quickly across his spare cinderblock office, pausing to glance out at the bleak Wisconsin landscape. Yet another snowstorm appears to be building in the leaden ...
SCIENCE BESPEAKS power, both military and economic. The U.S. has long had the most productive scientific establishment in the world: Since the explosion of the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico d...
AFTER MONTHS of rising excitement, the big breakthrough came in May at IBM's sleekly sinuous Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. Scientists had been making astoundingly ...
FOUR high-browed Ph.D.s solemnly carried out their assignment: Redesign a coffee maker. They belong to the Center for Industrial Innovation on the wind- swept campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti...
AS A RAINBOW-COLORED ''Peace Shield'' over America, promoted with childlike crayon drawings in political ads last fall, President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative has well-known credibility pr...
Fortune: Bubbles takes a bowupdated: Mon Jul 08 1985 00:01:00
Despite all the doom and gloom in the computer business, one segment seems to be basking in the sun: supercomputer sales are growing at a healthy clip. So naturally companies are trying to horn in ...
ONCE IN A WHILE, a material comes along that's made to order to meet the needs of a new generation of technology. Silicon, an excellent conductor of electrons when properly processed, has powered t...
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