K Computer built by Fujitsu Japan has been ranked as the world’s most powerful supercomputer. Mr. K, made up of 672 cabinets of electric circuit boards is claimed to be three times faster than the former Chinese rival and is said to have an equal computing power to a combination of one million desktop computers. The tests revealed that K was able to make 8.2 quadrillion calculations per second and that is why it is named as “K” which is a short term of “Kei” in Japanese, meaning 10 quadrillion. In comparison to running a million desktop computers to produce “K” metric, this system is said to be energy-efficient, yet it consumes enough electricity required to power tens of thousands home costing near 10 million dollars annually.
Such supercomputers are aimed to be used in extreme high-tech computations including research, climate predictions and oil exploration industry etc.
Source: The New York Times - Japanese 'K' Computer Is Ranked Most Powerful
Showing posts with label High-Tech. Show all posts
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
IBM Celebrates 100 Years
The High tech giant IBM founded in 1911 as the Computing Tabulating Recording Company (CTR) is celebrating 100 years of progress.
IBM is a key player in transforming business models in emerging sectors including banking and insurance, Telecom, infrastructure, healthcare, travel and transport, media and entertainment, Security software solutions. IBM has recently been significantly influential in the government sectors of Brazil, Africa and India investing in immense high-tech projects aiming for long term return of investment.
It’s reported of $14 billion of investment made in different systematic acquisitions by IBM so far.
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IBM is a key player in transforming business models in emerging sectors including banking and insurance, Telecom, infrastructure, healthcare, travel and transport, media and entertainment, Security software solutions. IBM has recently been significantly influential in the government sectors of Brazil, Africa and India investing in immense high-tech projects aiming for long term return of investment.
It’s reported of $14 billion of investment made in different systematic acquisitions by IBM so far.
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Friday, June 03, 2011
Smart Phone Apps: Google Goggles and Apple Word Lens change how the world looks like!
Smart phone applications have the capability to change how we interact with our world.
Imagine you are traveling abroad where the native language is unfamiliar and you come across a sign board at the cross roads that will decide your further ride towards several miles ahead.
You would really love to have a smart phone device with Apple's Word Lens or Google Goggles application.
Just pull out your smart phone, turn on the camera pointing at the sign board; your phone will read the sign board in language you know.
Click Play on the Demo Below!
That's not just it; There are many great things you can further do with your iPhone or Android mobile device running Google App or Goggle Goggles.
Click Play on the Demo Below!
Imagine you are traveling abroad where the native language is unfamiliar and you come across a sign board at the cross roads that will decide your further ride towards several miles ahead.
You would really love to have a smart phone device with Apple's Word Lens or Google Goggles application.
Just pull out your smart phone, turn on the camera pointing at the sign board; your phone will read the sign board in language you know.
Click Play on the Demo Below!
That's not just it; There are many great things you can further do with your iPhone or Android mobile device running Google App or Goggle Goggles.
Click Play on the Demo Below!
Friday, May 27, 2011
Google Wallet, a mobile payment platform. Still Carrying Credit Cards?
Google launches its Near-Field Communication(
NFC) enabled Mobile Payment Platform, which allows payments sent directly from your smart phone. Your phone will be your wallet.
Google has partnered with big industry retailers and merchants including Master Card and City Bank for its Google Wallet.
This launch has created buzz in all related industries from Point Of Sales Vendors, Retailers & Merchants through Banks and Software Companies in support of this platform and get compatible with the future of customer payments.
There are also Gossips about Apple that is working too on an NFC enabled mobile payment system for its iPhone.
Read More about Google Wallet.
NFC) enabled Mobile Payment Platform, which allows payments sent directly from your smart phone. Your phone will be your wallet.Google has partnered with big industry retailers and merchants including Master Card and City Bank for its Google Wallet.
This launch has created buzz in all related industries from Point Of Sales Vendors, Retailers & Merchants through Banks and Software Companies in support of this platform and get compatible with the future of customer payments.
There are also Gossips about Apple that is working too on an NFC enabled mobile payment system for its iPhone.
Read More about Google Wallet.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Google's Cloud Based Machine Learning Service
Google Labs now offers its cloud based machine learning API and Big Query, powered by a full fledged BI enabled engine with a hand some of Google's industry tested and renowned prediction algorithms.
This empowers developers and organizations alike to take jump start towards greatly improving their applications and services by making use of Google's deep data analytic capabilities.
It specially attracts those Organizations lacking the high tech infrastructure of maintaining a data warehouse followed by high licensing costs of purchasing data mining engines and business intelligence applications offered by major vendors like Oracle, Teradata, Microsoft.
In order for this to work; you have to upload your data to Google, process the data using Big Query and then applying the set of prediction APIs.
However, when it comes to prediction, machine learning, and data mining; we are talking about data in Giga/Tera Bytes.
Given the type of business, size, and sensitivity of data; uploading data over the internet to Google infrastructure for the first time followed by daily incremental uploads raises feasibility and security concerns. But as the cloud Buzz continue to grow massively, so does the adaptability.
Read More!
This empowers developers and organizations alike to take jump start towards greatly improving their applications and services by making use of Google's deep data analytic capabilities.
It specially attracts those Organizations lacking the high tech infrastructure of maintaining a data warehouse followed by high licensing costs of purchasing data mining engines and business intelligence applications offered by major vendors like Oracle, Teradata, Microsoft.
In order for this to work; you have to upload your data to Google, process the data using Big Query and then applying the set of prediction APIs.
However, when it comes to prediction, machine learning, and data mining; we are talking about data in Giga/Tera Bytes.
Given the type of business, size, and sensitivity of data; uploading data over the internet to Google infrastructure for the first time followed by daily incremental uploads raises feasibility and security concerns. But as the cloud Buzz continue to grow massively, so does the adaptability.
Read More!
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