If you want to learn how something works, one strategy is to take it apart and put it back together again. For 10 years, a global initiative called the Blue Brain Project–hosted…
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IBM, GENCI collaboration eyes exascale computing
The ability to perform at least one exaflop, or a billion billion calculations, in one second is on IBM’s mind and for this it has announced a collaboration with GENCI through which…
IBM announces ‘Watson Health’; teams up with Apple, J&J, Medtronic
International Business Machines (IBM) Corp. on Monday announced it is creating a new unit that will collect and analyse healthcare data from mobiles and wearable devices and offer insights to health companies…
China’s Tianhe-2 still ‘world’s most powerful computer’ for the third time
Tianhe-2’s one hour of calculation equals just 1,000 years of difficult sums by around 1.3 billion people.