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A History of Supercomputers

What do fusion research, weather forecasting, epidemiology, and population dynamics have in common? They're all fields of ...
"This compact history traces the computer industry from its origins in 1950 mainframes, through the establishment of standards beginning in 1965 and the introduction of personal computing in the 1980s ...
IBM’s Eagle quantum computer completed a calculation that stumped the conventional supercomputer it was pitted against. Quantum computers have sparked excitement for a few decades, but researchers ...
When you think of mainframes, you probably have a mental picture from an old movie, with punch cards and a computer that takes up an entire large room. But the mainframe still lives, and is a viable ...
The company is sticking to an established market with its new servers, even though more companies these days are coming out with machines that act as alternatives to mainframes. Stephen Shankland ...
The new supercomputer, made by the Silicon Valley start-up Cerebras, was unveiled as the A.I. boom drives demand for chips and computing power. By Yiwen Lu Reporting from Santa Clara, Calif. Inside a ...