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The real-world location-based game SCVNGR is going global with the help of the Google Places application programming interface. Google Ventures has also dug up a second round of funding for the mobile game. Opening itself to a worldwide audience could give SCVNGR an edge over similar outfits like Foursquare and Gowalla.SCVNGR, a Boston-based company that [...]
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With China expected to officially take the supercomputer performance crown next month, I asked an expert about the state of supercomputing in the U.S. and whether China poses a long-term threat to the United States’ current preeminence in supercomputing. Nvidia announced yesterday that its chips are powering the “Tianhe-1A” Chinese supercomputer that achieved 2.507 petaflops, [...]
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China has become one of a handful of nations to own one of the top five supercomputers in the world. Its Tianhe-1 computer, housed at the National Super Computer Center in Tianjin was ranked fifth on the biannual Top 500 supercomputer list. The machine packs more than 70,000 chips and can compute 563 trillion calculations [...]
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