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Supercomputing Technology Landing in Your Lap(top)  

Posted Dec 13, 07 8:17 AM CST in Business,  Technology    Editor's Choice

(newser) – Leaps forward in chip design are bringing supercomputing technology to personal computers and corporate data centers, Business Week writes. Hardware makers are coming up with more ways to cram colossal amounts of computing power into small spaces, but software is lagging a bit behind. Microsoft is building a brain trust in a bid to develop new applications.

Using chips that can perform up to a trillion calculations a second for personal computing could change the way people interact with machines—if they really want to. "Is this whole infatuation with performance something that has moved beyond what the vast majority of users really care about?" asked Intel's technology chief.

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Supercomputing Technology Landing in Your Lap(top)
A building block of a supercomputer. New chips can perform as many as a trillion calculations in a second.   (Flickr)
Supercomputing Technology Landing in Your Lap(top)
In a demonstration of the tremendous power savings that can be realized with new computer design, a team of cyclists riding bicycles hooked up to electrical generators demonstrated the world's first human...   (Associated Press)
Supercomputing Technology Landing in Your Lap(top)
NEC's Earth Simulator Supercomputers - the fastest computer in the world. Advances in technology means supercomputing power can now be used in personal computers.   (Getty Images)
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