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POPSRussians behind zombie PC threat Don't be opening those emails from the Kremlin. Will Dick'n'George be able to save us? Will global warming cook the russian computers? Will the chinese over react and apply sanctions?
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POPSWhat's the world's fastest supercomputer used for? RIKEN's MDGrape-3 is the first machine to break the petaflop barrier -- that's 1 quadrillion calculations (floating-point operations, to be specific) per second -- and it's three times faster than the currently ranked fastest computer in the world, IBM's BlueGene/L. But MDGrape-3 is so specialized that it can't run the software used to officially rank computing speed.
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POPSHow Nanowires Work To some this is old news, others may enjoy learning a little more about how brilliant the micro chip and the people who build them actually are.