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Topic Models vs. Unstructured Data
With topic modeling, scientists can explore and understand huge collections of unlabeled information.
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The Eyes Have It
Eye-tracking control for mobile phones might lead to a new era of context-aware user interfaces.
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IBM, Intel Question Key Top500 Supercomputer Metric
Researchers at IBM and Intel are questioning the methods by which the supercomputing Top500 list is compiled. "The Top500 . . . doesn't measure about 80 percent...
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Hpc Experts Look Past Petaflop to the Exascale
At SC10, the annual supercomputing conference, high-performance computing (HPC) experts debated whether the industry will reach an exaflop by 2020, and if the achievement...
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Silicon's Long Good-Bye
Researchers make transistors out of a material that's better than silicon.
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Accelerator Supercomputers Dominate Newest Green500 List's Top 10
Accelerator-based supercomputers hold eight of the top 10 spots on the Green500 list. Green500 ranks the energy efficiency of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers...
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Graph500 Rating System Evaluates Nine Supercomputer Capabilities
Nine supercomputers have been tested, validated and ranked by the new "Graph500" challenge, introduced this week by an international team led by Sandia National...
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Ice and a Slice Makes Transistors More Precise
Transistors can be built more precisely by using ice as a mask, according to researchers at Harvard University. The ice lithography process resembles how computer...
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New Standard Proposed For Supercomputing
A new supercomputer rating system, Graph500, tests a supercomputer's ability to analyze large, graph-based structures that link the huge number of data points present...
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New Research Provides Effective Battle Planning For Supercomputer War
Researchers have been studying and comparing the supercomputing systems in China and the United States to provide an analysis that will benefit the battle plans...
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.s. Building Next Wave of Supercomputers
Both Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are building 20-petaflop supercomputer systems that are expected to ready in 2012....
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Chinese Supercomputer Overtakes Jaguar
China's National University of Defense Technology's Tianhe-1A supercomputer has taken the top ranking from Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar supercomputer...
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Supercomputers 'will Fit in a Sugar Cube,' Ibm Says
IBM researchers led by Bruno Michel have developed a water-cooling method for creating supercomputer processors that could shrink them to the size of a sugar cube...
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China Supercomputer Is Probably World's Fastest . . . But Not for Long
In late October, China unveiled the world's "fastest" supercomputer, the Tianhe 1A. But around the world there are several systems currently being planned or...
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Supercomputing Fest Will Spotlight World's Fastest Computers, High-Performance Issues
The SC10 supercomputing conference to be held in New Orleans will highlight high-performance computing advances in computation, networking, storage, and analysis...
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Nist Tool Uses Combination Testing to Catch Software Bugs
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have released a computer system testing tool that can cut costs by more efficiently finding software...
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Quantum Computing Reaches for True Power
In 1981 the physicist Richard Feynman speculated about the possibility of "tiny computers obeying quantum mechanical laws." He suggested that such a quantum computer...
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Research Team Takes Another Big Step in Creating Small Chips
Researchers at the University of Alberta and the National Institute for Nanotechnology have developed a method for heating plastic in a microwave oven that could...
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Nanogenerators Power Conventional Electronic Devices
Researchers have reached a significant milestone in their development of nanometer-scale generators that harvest mechanical energy from the environment using an...
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