Global Technology – March 2011

Now let’s focus on the most important breakthroughs in technology.  We’ll begin with a significant development from the race to build the world’s most powerful supercomputer.

Last November, a computer from China ranked first on the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.  The Tianhe-1A system at the National Computer Center in Tianjin, China was the first Chinese supercomputer to take the top spot on the list.

But now, University of Florida researchers have created a supercomputer, called Novo-G, that can perform some important.....