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A History of Supercomputers

Early supercomputers were characterized by a relatively low number of cores and a single, shared memory space. Later builds ...
Enormous dimensions, complicated military calculations, and thousands of vacuum tubes—this was the early supercomputer. Engineer Thomas Kite Sharpless gives a demonstration of the EDVAC at the ...
When you think of a supercomputer, what do you see in your mind's eye? A gigantic mainframe like ENIAC? A sinister emergent intelligence like HAL? Buildings full of GPUs, or maybe a single massive ...
A plethora of notable early computers from the collection of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen are to be put up for auction. Auction house Christie's is putting up hundreds of items across three sales ...
The UEFA Champions League is only two rounds old, and already, expectations are being flipped on their head. A supercomputer, known for calculating probabilities across competitions, has identified a ...