Friday, August 15, 2008

The Secret Lives of Supercomputers, Part 1

Have you imagined the computing power and reliability of supercomputers? From the enormous web news roaming around the web, here's one entry interpreting lives of super computers. A must read.

Supercomputers able to carry out enormous amounts of calculations per second have long been tied to some rather heady tasks -- playing humans in chess and modeling genomes, for instance. But as costs have fallen, businesses and government organizations have turned to supercomputers to solve all sorts of practical problems, from evaluating nuclear warheads without detonating them to designing the perfect potato chip.

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