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China beats its own record with the World’s fastest supercomputer.
Sunway TaihuLight, a newly built supercomputer from China, now ranks as the world’s most powerful machine.
During the International Supercomputer Conference in Germany on Monday, Top5… Continue reading China develops the World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer without US chips
Kristina Kapanova is a PhD student at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Her research is taking her to simulations of quantum effects in semiconductor devices, but this field of study requires a supercomputer for billions of calculations. The college had a proper supercomputer, and was getting a new one, but for a while, Kristina and her fellow ramen-eating colleagues were without a big box of computing. To solve this problem, Kristina built her own supercomputer from off-the-shelf ARM boards.
Because of the demands of a supercomputer – namely the amount of RAM and pure processing speed – Raspberry Pis and …read more
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The AlphaGo computer has been in the news recently for beating the top Go player in the world in four out of five games. This evolution in computing is a giant leap from the 90s when computers were still struggling to beat humans at chess. The landscape has indeed changed, as [Folkert] shows us with his chess computer based on a Raspberry Pi 3 and (by his own admission) too many LEDs.
The entire build is housed inside a chess board with real pieces (presumably to aid the human player) and an LED on every square. When the human makes …read more
