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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...

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Published in:Economist Vol. 357; no. 8200; pp. 32 - 36
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 12/9/2000
Subjects:
Supercomputers
Parallel processing
Protein folding
Bioinformatics
IBM ES/9000 computers
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