News articles tagged with 'processor'
LAMMPS supercomputer code developer earns special recognition
— 4 Mar 2011 15:45 | TechnologySandia National Laboratories researcher Steve Plimpton, who led development of a widely used computer code that models how materials behave, has been invited to present a keynote lecture…
Fruit fly nervous system provides new solution to fundamental computer network problem
— 14 Jan 2011 15:50 | TechnologyThe fruit fly has evolved a method for arranging the tiny, hair-like structures it uses to feel and hear the world that's so efficient a team of scientists in Israel and at Carnegie…
New supercomputer 'sees' well enough to drive a car someday
— 16 Sep 2010 05:13 | TechnologyNavigating our way down the street is something most of us take for granted; we seem to recognise cars, other people, trees and lampposts instantaneously and without much thought. In…
Computer scientists leverage dark silicon to improve smartphone battery life
— 2 Sep 2010 16:19 | TechnologyA new smartphone chip prototype under development at the University of California, San Diego will improve smartphone efficiency by making use of 'dark silicon' - the underused transistors…
Over two billion hours served
— 19 Jun 2010 10:19 | TechnologyThe Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), located at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, has run over two billion processor-hours of computations…
World record: Julich supercomputer simulates quantum computer
— 31 Mar 2010 10:28 | TechnologyA quantum computer could provide an enormous improvement in the processing speed of existing computers. However, as yet they only exist in the laboratory in the form of small prototypes…
Conquering the chaos in modern, multiprocessor computers
— 18 Mar 2010 12:36 | TechnologyComputers should not play dice. That, to paraphrase Einstein, is the feeling of a University of Washington computer scientist with a simple manifesto: If you enter the same computer…
NIST demonstrates 'universal' programmable quantum processor
— 16 Nov 2009 11:35 | TechnologyPhysicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated the first 'universal' programmable quantum information processor able to run any program allowed…
New 167-processor chip is super-fast, ultra energy-efficient
— 22 Apr 2009 15:14 | TechnologyA new, extremely energy-efficient processor chip that provides breakthrough speeds for a variety of computing tasks has been designed by a group at the University of California, Davis.…
Apple introduces new Mac Pro
— 3 Mar 2009 16:10 | TechnologyApple today introduced the new Mac(R) Pro using Intel 'Nehalem' Xeon processors and a next-generation system architecture to deliver up to twice the performance of the previous generation…