Spain Builds Supercomputer With Cellphone Chips
Supercomputers have an energy problem -- one that threatens to curb their steady evolution. If we continue to ratchet up the speed of our supercomputers using today's technologies, by the end of the...
View ArticleChinese Crunch Human Genome With Videogame Chips
The world's largest genome sequencing center once needed four days to analyze data describing a human genome. Now it needs just six hours. The trick is servers built with graphics chips -- the sort of...
View ArticleBarcelona Supercomputer ARMed For Assault on World’s Fastest Machines
The Barcelona Supercomputer Center is building one of the greenest high-performance computers on the planet, but if Alex Ramirez gets his way, it could also be the most powerful.
View ArticleLinus Torvalds Gives Nvidia the Finger. Literally
Linux creator Linus Torvalds isn't happy with Nvidia. And he wants you to know it. Late last week, at a hacker meetup in Finland, Torvalds laid into Nvidia, calling it "the single worst company" the...
View ArticleNvidia Responds to F-Bomb From Linus Torvalds
Linux creator Linus Torvalds may call Nvidia “the single worst company” the Linux community has ever dealt with. But the chipmaker makes no apologies for its approach to the open source operating system.
View ArticleMicrochips | Nvidia Answers Apple Spaceship With Triangle Temple
Chip-maker Nvidia has released artist renditions of its new Santa Clara, California, headquarters, set to open up in July 2015.
View ArticleMicrochips | Google Erects Fake Brain With … Graphics Chips?
Your brain is a collection of neurons -- tiny cells that use electro-chemical signals to send and receive information. But as Google builds an artificial brain that will help drive everything from its...
View ArticleNvidia Aims Its Supercomputer Chips At Self-Driving Cars
Nvidia says its new mobile processor will help power a particularly mobile machine: the self-driving car. Over the weekend, the chip maker unveiled its new Tegra K1 mobile processor at the Consumer...
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