Fujitsu Ltd. said supercomputers will become a billion-dollar business for the company within five years, challenging products made by Hewlett-Packard Co. and International Business Machines Corp. Japan’s biggest computer-services provider aims to control 10 percent of the market for the machines, from the current 2.2 percent, by tapping rising demand in Germany, France and the [...]
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31 May
Is Mac the future of computing?
Opinion: Paul Nesbitt outlines why the best PC for the job is an Apple Mac and how Apple controls its computers more than Microsoft ever did 2010 is being proclaimed as the year of the tablet, with Apple leading a headlong charge into a new model of computing for consumers. Apple’s big idea is to [...]
31 May
China develops fastest super computer
China has developed a super computer that runs at more than one quadrillion (one thousand million million) calculations per second, making it the fastest one in the country, experts have said. The super computer named “Xingyun”, has been developed in Tianjin, and works at double the speed of “Tianhe-1″, the previous fastest machine in China.
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