Petaflop computers will be capable of calculating in one second what would take 10 million years using a calculator. David Boothroyd reports
Is it a BirD? Is it a plane? No, it?s a supercomputer. Although not quite faster than the speed of light, supercomputers are certainly getting that way. Two weeks ago, IBM announced that it had s...
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