Gizmo Watch

The best a supercomputer can be minimized to is the SGI’s Octane III workstation, which is handsomely loaded with what those big rigs contain. Featuring some insanely powerful characteristics, the rig is capable of delivering a speed-laden...

If you thought computers with large storage capacity couldn't get larger, think again. IBM will build the world's first computer that will use 200,000 processor cores and will have 10 petabytes of disk storage. The computer is called Blue Waters and...

Supercomputers of the size of matchboxes are coming within this decade. Scientists claim to have discovered how microscopic wires behave. And tiny wires thousand times thinner than one human hair (measured in millionths of a millimetre) will be...

Is it possible to build a 8 core Beowulf cluster using four motherboard and a gigabyte network switch for a portable supercomputer which can be plunged into a slandered 120V wall outlet with a high performance/cost ratio of $100/Gflopthat and that...

US was stated to enter an implausible new epoch of technology in the year 1987 by Ronald Reagan. A new genre of materials dubbed high temperature superconductors (HTSC) were set to make high-speed trains, super-efficient power generators and...

A next-generation supercomputer named Roadrunner is currently in the development phase in the IBM labs in New Mexico. The supercomputer is claimed to have a performance level of 1 petaflop (alike 1,000 trillion calculations per second) using a...

I hadn't an idea that D-Wave Systems were so excited about their world's first 'Quantum Computer' that they rolled it out in the early hours. Quantum computing is one of those things that bring a glint to the eyes of connoisseurs. It's like the Holy...