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Wednesday, November 20, 2002
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A new, super-human level of computing power? "A press release issued today at the Supercomputing 2002 conference by both the Department of Energy and IBM announced that IBM has won a contract to build two of the most powerful computers known to humanity. The computers will be affectionately named "ASCI Purple" and "Bluegene/L", and will purportedly have processing capabilities of 100 Teraflops and 360 Teraflops, respectively (and many reports are making much of the fact that some scientists believe the computing power of the brain is around 100 Teraflops, nevermind the AI)." [Ars Technica]
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Biologists seek better IT tools, panelists say: "Collaborative, problem-solving software is necessary." [InfoWorld: Top News]
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