Big Blue's big bet.
Reports on research at the IBM Thomas J. Watson research center in Yorktown Heights, New York on building a powerful computer called Blue Gene. Intention for the supercomputer to help biologists explore how proteins fold themselves into their distinctive shapes; Problems in parallel computing; Deta...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 357; no. 8200; pp. 32 - 36 |
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| Formato: | Artículo |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
12/9/2000
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| Sumario: | Reports on research at the IBM Thomas J. Watson research center in Yorktown Heights, New York on building a powerful computer called Blue Gene. Intention for the supercomputer to help biologists explore how proteins fold themselves into their distinctive shapes; Problems in parallel computing; Details of the design of Blue Gene's hardware and software; Need for the supercomputer to evaluate the validity of the so-called force-field models used in computational biology; Contrast of Blue Gene to Deep Blue, the chess-playing supercomputer. |
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