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Friederike Sontag

New supercomputer at the German Climate Computing Center in Hamburg - 2 views

www.supercomputingonline.com/...te-computing-center-in-hamburg

climate_computing Hamburg Blizzard supercomputer

shared by Friederike Sontag on 11 Dec 09 - Cached
jcunha

Breakthrough model biological supercomputer - 4 views

phys.org/...-biological-supercomputer.html

technology science BIO supercomputer parallel ABACUS

shared by jcunha on 04 Mar 16 - No Cached
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  • jcunha on 04 Mar 16
     
    The model bio- supercomputer is powered by adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the substance that provides energy to all of the cells in a human body.
jcunha

IBM Watson: The inside story of how the Jeopardy-winning supercomputer was born, and wh... - 0 views

www.techrepublic.com/...n-and-what-it-wants-to-do-next

IBM watson AI supercomputer jeopardy

shared by jcunha on 25 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • jcunha on 25 Mar 16
     
    A nice read. IBM Watson wowed the tech industry with a 2011 win against two of television show Jeopardy greatest champions. Using something that seemed like a sort of tree search for me IBM DeepQA algorithm managed to ingest sparse data (clues), process it getting one answer, understand what that answer means and come up with the question that leads to that answer. Now, IBM tells us that the same system can tackle medical diagnosis and financial risk problems.
ESA ACT

NVIDIA Tesla - GPU Computing Solutions for HPC - 0 views

www.nvidia.com/...tesla_computing_solutions.html

supercomputing technology GPU

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    Graphic cards in the core of a supercomputer.
ESA ACT

Amazon puts network power online : Article : Nature - 0 views

www.nature.com/...444528a.html

supercomputing technology amazon

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    Cost-effective supercomputing wins academic praise. A loose idea now in Nature
jmlloren

Supercomputer built from Raspberry Pis and Lego - 0 views

boingboing.net/...computer-built-from-raspb.html

INF MAD FUN

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  • jmlloren on 13 Sep 12
     
    What's next? Lego satellites!
santecarloni

New Kind of Metal in the Earth | Geophysical Laboratory - 0 views

www.gl.ciw.edu/...new-kind-metal-earth

phy space

shared by santecarloni on 21 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • santecarloni on 21 Dec 11
     
    New experiments and supercomputer computations discovered that iron oxide undergoes a new kind of transition under deep Earth conditions. Iron oxide, FeO, is a component of the second most abundant mineral at Earth's lower mantle, ferropericlase. The finding, published in an upcoming issue of Physical Review Letters, could alter our understanding of deep Earth dynamics and the behavior of the protective magnetic field, which shields our planet from harmful cosmic rays.
Thijs Versloot

Turing test success marks milestone in computing history @UniofReading - 2 views

www.reading.ac.uk/...PR583836.aspx

turing computing AI

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  • Thijs Versloot on 09 Jun 14
     
    The 65 year-old iconic Turing Test was passed for the very first time by supercomputer Eugene Goostman during Turing Test 2014 held at the renowned Royal Society in London on Saturday.
  • ...2 more comments...
  • Marcus Maertens on 09 Jun 14
     
    Breaking news: humans fail to pass the Turing Test for the very first time! Suprisingly, playing the dumb boy does not only work for humans, but for chatterbots as well.
  • johannessimon81 on 09 Jun 14
     
    Is there already a drunk version of the Turing test? Anna?
  • Juxi Leitner on 10 Jun 14
  • Paul N on 11 Jun 14
     
    Humans have been failing the reverse turing test for years now actually.
LeopoldS

NVIDIA Newsroom - 2 views

pressroom.nvidia.com/...customrel.do

INF science PHY

shared by LeopoldS on 28 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 28 Oct 10
     
    the fastest supercomputer seems to be in China now!
LeopoldS

The iPad in Your Hand: As Fast as a Supercomputer of Yore - NYTimes.com - 3 views

bits.blogs.nytimes.com/...ast-as-a-supercomputer-of-yore

technology phy INF science AI

shared by LeopoldS on 10 May 11 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 10 May 11
     
    one for the IT freaks ... - what will it be in 10 years then?
  • Ma Ru on 10 May 11
     
    PaGMO on a stack of iPads? Sounds good...
Joris _

NASA Supercomputer Ranks Among World's Fastest - 2 views

www.physorg.com/news177846588.html

INF technology supercomputer

shared by Joris _ on 19 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Joris _ on 19 Nov 09
     
    Isn't it the one we could have used for the debris thing ?
  • LeopoldS on 20 Nov 09
     
    yes, exactly this one! .... pity, isn't it that we did not find a suitable thing to cooperate with them ...
Annalisa Riccardi

Smartphones, Tablets Help Researchers Improve Storm Forecasts - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...130206141533.htm

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  • Annalisa Riccardi on 08 Feb 13
     
    The next advance in weather forecasting may not come from a new satellite or supercomputer, but from a device in your pocket. University of Washington atmospheric scientists are using pressure sensors included in the newest smartphones to develop better weather forecasting techniques.
johannessimon81

IBM Neuromorphic chip hits DARPA milestone and has been used to implement deep learning - 2 views

www.nextbigfuture.com/...romorphic-chip-hits-darpa.html

AI science technology memristor neuromorphic

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  • johannessimon81 on 30 Sep 16
     
    "IBM delivered on the DARPA SyNAPSE project with a one million neuron brain-inspired processor. The chip consumes merely 70 milliwatts, and is capable of 46 billion synaptic operations per second, per watt-literally a synaptic supercomputer in your palm." --- No memristors..., yet.: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/537211/a-better-way-to-build-brain-inspired-chips/
Thijs Versloot

Deep Learning Machine Teaches Itself Chess in 72 Hours, Plays at International Master L... - 1 views

www.technologyreview.com/...-plays-at-international-master

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  • Thijs Versloot on 15 Sep 15
     
    In a world first, an artificial intelligence machine plays chess by evaluating the board rather than using brute force to work out every possible move. It's been almost 20 years since IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer beat the reigning world chess champion, Gary Kasparov, for the first time under standard tournament rules.
  • Paul N on 16 Sep 15
     
    The disadvantage in this kind of engine lies exactly in its inability to extrapolate. You might actually be able to beat it if you play like an idiot.
Luzi Bergamin

Prof. Markrams Hirnmaschine (Startseite, NZZ Online) - 2 views

www.nzz.ch/...s_hirnmaschine_1.10736223.html

AI neuroscience SciFi

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  • Luzi Bergamin on 29 May 11
     
    A critical view on Prof. Markram's Blue Brain project (in German).
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  • Luzi Bergamin on 29 May 11
     
    A critical view on Prof. Markram's Blue Brain project (in German).
  • LeopoldS on 30 May 11
     
    so critical that the comment needed to be posted twice :-) ?
  • Luzi Bergamin on 30 May 11
     
    Yes, I know; I still don't know how to deal with this f.... Diigo Toolbar! Shame on me!!!
  • dejanpetkow on 30 May 11
     
    Would be nice to read something about the modelling, but it appears that there is nothing published in detail. Following the article, the main approach is to model each(!) neuron taking into account the spatial structure of the neurons positions. Once achieved they expect intelligent behaviour. And they need a (type of) supercomputer which does not exist yet.
  • Ma Ru on 31 May 11
     
    As far as I know it's sort of like "Let's construct an enormous dynamical system and see what happens"... i.e. a waste of taxpayer's money... Able to heal Alzheimer... Yeah... Actually I was on the conference the author is mentioning (FET 2011) and I have seen the presentations of all 6 flagship proposals. Following that I had a discussion with one of my colleagues about the existence of limits of the amount of bullshit politicians are willing to buy from scientists. Will there be a point at which politicians, despite their total ignorance, will realise that scientists simply don't deliver anything they promise? How long will we (scientists) be stuck in the viscous circle of have-to-promise-more-than-predecessors in order to get money? Will we face a situation when we'll be forced to revert to promises which are realistic? To be honest none of the 6 presentations convinced me of their scientific merit (apart from the one on graphene where I have absolutely no expertise to tell). Apparently a huge amount of money is about to be wasted.
  • Luzi Bergamin on 01 Jun 11
     
    It's not just "Let's construct an enormous dynamical system and see what happens", it's worse! Also the simulation of the cosmological evolution is/was a little bit of this type, still the results are very interesting and useful. Why? Neither the whole cosmos nor the human brain at the level of single neurons can be modelled on a computer, that would last aeons on a "yet-to-be-invented-extra-super-computer". Thus one has to make assumptions and simplifications. In cosmology we have working theories of gravitation, thermodynamics, electrodynamics etc. at hand; starting from these theories we can make reasonable assumptions and (more or less) justified simplifications. The result is valuable since it provides insight into a complex system under given, explicit and understood assumptions. Nothing similar seems to exist in neuroscience. There is no theory of the human brain and apparently nobody has the slightest idea which simplifications can be made without harm. Of course, Mr. Markram remains completely unaffected of ''details'' like this. Finally, Marek, money is not wasted, we ''build networks of excellence'' and ''select the brightest of the brightest'' to make them study and work at our ''elite institutions'' :-). I lively remember the stage of one of these "bestofthebest" from Ivy League at the ACT...
Luís F. Simões

When Astronomy Met Computer Science | Cosmology | DISCOVER Magazine - 1 views

discovermagazine.com/...astronomy-met-computer-science

astronomy INF data mining

shared by Luís F. Simões on 25 Jul 11 - No Cached
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  • “That’s impossible!” he told Borne. “Don’t you realize that the entire data set NASA has collected over the past 45 years is one terabyte?”
  • The LSST, producing 30 terabytes of data nightly, will become the centerpiece of what some experts have dubbed the age of peta­scale astronomy—that’s 1015 bits (what Borne jokingly calls “a tonabytes”).
  • A major sky survey might detect millions or even billions of objects, and for each object we might measure thousands of attributes in a thousand dimensions. You can get a data-mining package off the shelf, but if you want to deal with a billion data vectors in a thousand dimensions, you’re out of luck even if you own the world’s biggest supercomputer. The challenge is to develop a new scientific methodology for the 21st century.”
  • LeopoldS on 25 Jul 11
     
    Francesco please look at this and get back wrt to the /. question .... thanks
ESA ACT

Computer Model Points To the Missing Matter - 0 views

www.journals.uchicago.edu/...522912

PHY supercomputing

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    Unlike many previous studies of this type, our simulation includes unbound gas, where an appreciable fraction of the baryons in the universe reside.
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