Tag Supercomputers - results: 32
Is it true that our ancestors killed the Neanderthals?
About 40 thousand years ago on Earth there lived several members of the genus of people. The most numerous of them were our ancestors Homo sapiens and the Neanderthals. To live on the same planet several types of bipedal creatures...
How are ghosts and a computer simulation of our Universe?
What if everything around is not real? Imagine for a moment that the planet on which we live, the Solar system, our Galaxy and, ultimately, all that we consider to be infinite, in fact, nothing more than a simulation. I know it so...
How to paint old movies and how much it costs
it is considered that previously, sugar was sweeter, the grass is greener and the girls prettier. Also, many warm memories of watching black and white movies with the family and receive from it huge pleasure. ”Beware of the car”, ...
The supercomputer was able to solve the impossible task
a Quantum computer Sycamore I Think Google just managed to make a real revolution in computer science. Using software called Sycamore, a Google representative said on «quantum superiority» on the most powerful supercompu...
Astronomers have created 8 million Universes inside the computer. And that's what they found
Despite the many assumptions that our universe is a computer simulation, in fact the probability of this is extremely small. However, in the world nothing is impossible, so scientists can observe different forms of life in million...
Cyklokarpon is the first step towards creating an artificial brain
Carbon is one of the most common chemical elements on our planet. Moreover, carbon — this is the basis of our existence, because we are, in fact, all carbon-based life forms. As the unique chemical structure of carbon allows...
The US wants to allow the supercomputer to manage nuclear potential of the country
today, supercomputers are often used for a variety of tasks. The computing power of modern supercomputers allow to carry out complex mathematical calculations to help in the creation of new effective drugs and even the search for ...
Presented Raspberry Pi 4: new version of tiny, but very useful computer
Raspberry Pi 4 here — and this update is awesome. Nobody expected that the new version of the popular single-Board computer will get so many improvements. From the point of view of physical design has remained the same: 4 Raspberr...
The fastest supercomputer in the world broke the record of artificial intelligence
On the West coast of America the most valuable company in the world trying to make artificial intelligence smarter. Google and Facebook brag experiments using billions of photos and thousands of high-performance processors. But at...
AlphaZero learns to play the game at the highest level
a Group of scientists from the group of DeepMind and University College London have developed artificial intelligence, able to self-learn the game and improve in three challenging Board games. In his work, published in the journal...
First launched the most powerful supercomputer simulating the human brain
Today, supercomputers are used for a wide range of tasks from various mathematical calculations and manipulation of data sets to simulation of pharmaceutical compounds and artificial intelligence. However, there are computers aime...
Excursion to the Museum of computers that changed the world
For some reason, old computers don't become classics. Few people contains them with the same concern as contain antique furniture or cars. Probably the reason that they are not suitable for use in the modern world even though the ...
The smallest computer in the world has become even smaller
When IBM said in March that created the smallest computer in the world, scientists from the University of Michigan with displeasure raised eyebrows because IBM is the championship belonged to them. Now the smallest computer in the...
In the United States represented the most powerful supercomputer in the world
the US Department of energy introduced the world's most powerful supercomputer, selected the title from the Chinese Sunway TaihuLight. Peak performance supercomputer American Summit reached 200 petaflops. (200 quadrillion calculat...
Every Monday in the new issue of «News high-tech» we summarize the previous week, talking about some of the most important events, the key discoveries and inventions. This time we will talk about the new Russian supercom...
New Russian supercomputer called "talker"
On the territory of Russia operate more than ten supercomputers, the leader of which is considered to be . Its performance is more than 2 petaflops, which provides him 63rd place in the ranking of most powerful supercomputers in t...
Swiss startup creates a decentralized "Internet computer»
the developers of the company DFINITY started to create an open Protocol that allows to connect computers in a single user decentralized cloud platform, turning them into a kind of «Internet computer». The developers rep...
The former developers of Blockstream to create a supercomputer on the blockchain
Blockstream is a company known for the development of cryptocurrency, blockchain projects and promotion of technology Saidjanov, new parent based on the bitcoin chain. Recently Ben Gorlick and johnny dilly, two developers of the c...
The power of the best Russian supercomputer will double
the Power of a supercomputer of Moscow state University named after M. V. Lomonosov is planned to double in the coming months, — said MSU rector Viktor Sadovnichy at the meeting of the Integration club under the Chairman of ...
Why are mathematicians looking for Prime numbers with millions of digits?
Prime numbers are more than numbers that are divisible by themselves and one. It's a mathematical puzzle that mathematicians are trying to solve ever since then, when Euclid proved that there's no end. Project Great Internet Merse...