BANGALORE: Indias fastest supercomputer will soon be housed in Bangalore. Sources with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation (CSIR C-MMACS) told Express, on the eve of National Science Day, that the yet-to-be-named high-performance computing system will be used for genome informatics, geo-science informatics (earth, ocean and atmosphere) and engineering sciences (aerodynamics of planes, development of smart materials and computer-aided drug...
08:11 AM, Feb 28, 2012
New Delhi: In the race with China, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has pitched for a Rs 5000 crore supercomputer for India. But the question is whether it will be enough to match China's prowess. "Over the past few decades, India's relative position in the world of science has been declining and we have been overtaken by countries like China," the Prime Minister said on Tuesday. India has 17 per cent...
08:40 AM, Jan 04, 2012
New York: Enough with the fun and games. Watson is going to work. IBM's supercomputer system, best known for trouncing the world's best "Jeopardy!" players on TV, is being tapped by one of the nation's largest health insurers to help diagnose medical problems and authorise treatments. WellPoint Inc., which has 34.2 million members, will integrate Watson's lightning speed and deep health care database into its existing patient information, helping it...
02:40 PM, Sep 13, 2011
Washington: A Japanese supercomputer named 'K' - capable of making 8.2 quadrillion calculations per second or equivalent to a million laptops working in tandem - has been named the most powerful system in the world, a media report said Monday. The computer is three times faster than its Chinese rival that previously held the top position, a New York Times report said. K, built by Fujitsu and located at the...
11:59 AM, Jun 21, 2011
Bangalore: Indian Space Research Organisation has built a supercomputer, which is to be India's fastest in terms of theoretical peak performance of 220 TeraFLOPS (220 Trillion Floating Point Operations per second). The supercomputer SAGA-220, built by the Satish Dhawan Supercomputing Facility located at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram at a cost of about Rs 14 crore was inaugurated by K Radhakrishnan, Chairman ISRO at VSSC today, ISRO said in...
06:57 PM, May 02, 2011
New Delhi: Predicting the weather means calculating a thousand different possibilities. India has supercomputers to do that. But now, it wants one that is four times faster. Minister of State of Science and Technology Ashwani Kumar said, "We want to ratchet up our computing capacity from 70 terraflops to 300 terraflops." That is ten thousand times faster than your desktop Personal Computers. One teraflop means a trillion instructions solved every...
10:32 AM, Mar 09, 2011
New York: The computer brained its human competition in Game 1 of the Man vs. Machine competition on Jeopardy! On the 30-question game board, veteran Jeopardy! champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter managed only five correct responses between them during the Double Jeopardy round that aired Tuesday. They ended the first game of the two-game face-off with paltry earnings of $4,800 and $10,400 respectively. Watson, their IBM supercomputer nemesis, emerged...
11:07 AM, Feb 16, 2011
New York: A man-versus-machine showdown on popular US quiz show Jeopardy! ended in a tie on the first day of a three-day challenge, when an IBM computer showed off its knowledge of the Beatles, as well as a few glitches. The machine, dubbed Watson after International Business Machines Corp's former president Thomas Watson, is the computer and software maker's latest display of its expertise in advanced science. Watson's ability to...
11:54 AM, Feb 15, 2011
San Francisco: In a major achievement for artificial intelligence, an IBM supercomputer beat two human champions of the popular US quiz show Jeopardy, IBM said. Thursday's victory is significant because it came in a contest of non-linear thinking and natural language questions at which computers have generally lagged far behind their human inventors. The contest took place at a computer lab at IBM's research headquarters, which was decorated to appear...
09:30 AM, Jan 14, 2011
San Francisco: Chipmaker Nvidia said a new supercomputer built in China is the world's fastest and is powered by over 7,000 of its graphics processor units. The supercomputer, built by the National University of Defence Technology and located at the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, has horsepower equivalent to 175,000 laptop computers, Nvidia officials said. With sustained performance equivalent to 2.5 Petaflops, the Chinese computer is 30 percent faster than...
03:57 PM, Oct 28, 2010
Beijing: China has installed the country's first domestically-made supercomputer capable of doing 1,000 trillion operations per second. Tianhe-1 is scheduled to begin operations this month, according to the National Supercomputing Centre in Tianjin. The supercomputer, developed by the National University of Defence Technology in 2009, enabled China to become only the second country after the US capable of developing a device with a speed of 1,000 trillion operations per second....
04:59 PM, Sep 02, 2010
China has developed a super computer that runs at more than one quadrillion calculations per second. ...
10:27 AM, May 31, 2010
The supercomputer will be capable of 222 trillion floating point operations - per second. ...
06:02 PM, Sep 24, 2008
London: Former England captain Tony Greig has called for an end to India's domination of the International Cricket Council (ICC), saying it was the first thing he'd change if in charge of the governing body. Number one, we have got to try and get the ICC right, Greig said in an interview. We have a situation at the moment where the ICC is dominated by India. They tell Zimbabwe, Bangladesh...
12:12 AM, Jan 26, 2008
Supercomputer EKA has also been adjudged fourth fastest in the world. ...
12:12 AM, Nov 14, 2007
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