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Illustration: George Retseck  Next-Generation Supercomputers -- IEEE  Supercomputers are now running our search engines and social n...

The Sequoia: This grey slab is just part the most powerful computer on the planet, and will be used in nuclear power research, with perhaps ...

IBM Supercomputer Overtakes Fujitsu As World's Fastest -- BBC IBM's Sequoia has taken the top spot on the list of the world's fa...

China's Tianhe-1A is the second most powerful supercomputer in the world. Photo: Nvidia Intel Feeds China’s Supercomputers With New Xeon...

The Cray Jaguar supercomputer can perform more than a million billion operations per second. It takes up more than 5,000 square feet at Oak ...

ORNL's Petascale Jaguar Supercomputer The petascale Jaguar is the world's fastest computer, but DARPA wants to take computing to the...

New research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory explains how a ribonucleic acid enzyme, or ribozyme (pictured), uses magnesium ions (seen as s...

A screenshot from a Supramap study of avian influenza, with red lines representing the spread of drug-resistant strains and the white lines ...

A screenshot from a Supramap study of avian influenza, with red lines representing the spread of drug-resistant strains and the white lines ...

From Science Daily: Science Daily (Feb. 16, 2010) — Nanyang Technological University (NTU) February 11 opens its much-anticipated High Perfo...

The Loongson "Godson 2-C" An earlier generation of the Loongson – also known as "Dragon Core" or "Godson" – u...

From The Guardian: Scientific research and medical breakthroughs increasingly depend on huge computer power. HOW DO YOU predict whether a gi...

5: Tianhe-1. 563 teraflops A new entrant into the Top500 list, China's fastest computer proved capable of more than 500 trillion operati...

Rat vs. Cat Someone smells a rat From Popular Science: The Blue Brain project leader says that IBM's simulated brain does not even reach...

From Popular Mechanics: IBM has revealed the biggest artificial brain of all time, a simulation run by a 147,456-processor supercomputer tha...

Simulating Cat Minds Can I haz brainz? IBM From Popular Science: Using 144 terabytes of RAM, scientists simulate a cat's cerebral corte...

From CNET News: Intel Labs Europe is joining a handful of French institutions to investigate large-scale computing challenges that face tod...

From Gadget Lab: The most powerful supercomputer in the world, the Cray XT5 — aka ‘Jaguar’ — is a computing monster with the ability to cloc...

From Wired Science: The retooled Jaguar supercomputer blew away the competition on the latest list of the 500 fastest computers in the world...

From The BBC: China has become one of a handful of nations to own one of the top five supercomputers in the world. Its Tianhe-1 computer, ho...