The Reg HPC: NASA and Google team up to buy into quantumish computing [ Thu May 30 2013]

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China rumored to rule impending Top500 supers list with 50-plus
petaflopper
Big Red wields 'hard power' that is Intel Inside
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/29/china_tianhe_2_supercomputer_rumors/

It looks like China is getting ready to scare the wits out of – or
maybe some life into – the US and European supercomputing
establishments and their sugardaddy governments once again by taking
the top slot in the June rankings of the Top500 supercomputers in the
world. And this time, it will be with an all-Intel ceepie-phibie hybrid
box using a proprietary interconnect.

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IBM puts supercomputer Watson to work in ROBOT CALL CENTRE
AI goes to war with angry customers human staffers
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/21/ibm_watson_talking_computer_customer_service/

It's clever enough to beat humans on quiz shows and diagnose illnesses,
but is IBM's artificially intelligent supercomputer tough enough to
cope with angry consumers who've been on hold for three hours?

IBM certainly seems to think so, as it has just given Watson a new job
as a customer service manager.

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Buff American beauties keen to dominate Euro youth in tech tussle
High-performance cluster battle goes global
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/21/us_teams_for_isc_2013/

Competition at the ISC'13 Student Cluster Challenge will be the
fiercest yet.

Nine university teams from five continents are building, testing and
optimising their own multi-node HPC clusters in preparation for the
live face-off that will take place on the ISC'13 show floor in
mid-June.

During the show, the students will be running HPCC (with a separate
LINPACK), GROMACS*, MILC**, WRF*** and two secret applications. The
goal is to run the apps faster than the other teams without going over
the 3KW power limit.

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NASA and Google team up to buy into quantumish computing
Hoping to crack machine-learning conundrum
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/16/nasa_google_quantum_computing/

A consortium of researchers from Google and NASA are planning to crack
the issue of machine learning with a $15m quantum computer that will
form the basis of a new Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab.

The new facility, which will be sited at Silicon Valley's NASA Ames
Research Center, will host a 10 square meter shielded room which will
contain a D-Wave quantum processing machine – a superconducting
512-qubit processor chip cooled to 20 millikelvin which will be
upgraded to 2,048 qubits once the hardware becomes available.

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