computing model in photos
Photos: The world's fastest supercomputers revealed
Photo The colossi of computing took their places on the supercomputing podium today. Weighing in at 487 teraflops the SGI Altix ICE system, seen here, is used to simulate and model future space missions. Able... [17 Nov 2008]
Photos: The Cern computers cracking the Big Bang
Photo The computer centre will only provide about 20 per cent of the processing power used to examine the LHC data, with the rest coming from the LHC Computing Grid, a dedicated network of more than 100,000 processors. [06 Oct 2008]
Photos: Early analogue torpedo simulator
Photo This is the PACE TR-48, an analogue computer on display at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. Peter Chilvers, volunteer at the National Museum of Computing, said: "In the early days of... [09 Sep 2008]
Photos: A dip into Bletchley's classic PC archive
Photo The UK's cash-strapped National Museum of Computing is based at Bletchley Park, home of World War II code-breakers and the Colossus code-cracking supercomputer. One of the museum's exhibits displays the best of British... [03 Sep 2008]
Photos: Supercomputers signal when storms are a-brewing
Photo As computing power burgeoned and satellite data has improved predictions have steadily increased in accuracy over the decades, with seven-day forecasts in Europe today having a better hit rate than five day forecasts in... [06 Jun 2008]
Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain
Photo The gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and buttons of post-World War II computing at the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain exhibition at the Science Museum in London. [01 May 2008]
Photos: Charles Babbage's masterpiece reincarnated
Photo Here, Tim Robinson (right), who makes specialised computing machinery, shows his version of a Babbage Difference engine to Richard Horton (foreground), the lead engineer on the Myhrvold/Science Museum. [10 Apr 2008]
Photos: Red Bull Racing's F1 factory
Photo Due to the huge demand for computing power, the organisation runs a supercomputer and uses grid computing to support the development process. CFD requires huge amounts of processing power which Red Bull... [10 Mar 2008]
Photos: 10 gadgets to wish for this Xmas
Photo It's a UMPC (ultra mobile PC) that runs Windows Vista Business to enable "true mobile computing" - so the marketing line goes. RIM has at last launched wi-fi BlackBerrys and while the Curve 8320 (pictured) has the full... [03 Dec 2007]
Photos: Hamburg's high tech hospital
Photo The MCA, which has been jointly developed by Intel and Motion Computing, is designed specifically for use in the healthcare envirnonment and features a wipe clean surface. This is a model of the Barmbek... [18 Oct 2007]
Photos: The super-brain behind the particle smasher
Photo Grey said: "It's not like the LCG [LHC Computing Project] has gone around digging holes and putting in cables but has piggy-backed on the huge advance in networking which makes it really possible to run a grid like this... [21 May 2007]
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