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Disney used a 55,000-core supercomputer to render its new project—their next animated movie called ‘Big Hero 6’, which created some amazing details and made the movie an interesting indulgence for animation-lovers.

Once upon a time, supercomputers belonged in the highly secure facilities of well-moneyed tech companies. Today, they can be built at home, as proven by Twitter engineer Brian Guarraci who has built a supercomputer that reaches speeds of 208 gigaflops.

Fervent AI enthusiasts can keep saying that robots will be as intelligent as humans one day but that's not happening any time soon. A supercomputer recently took 40 minutes to map only 1 second of human brain activity in detail.

A hacker in eastern Pennsylvania came up with a unique entrepreneurial idea. He hacked into a couple of supercomputers and started selling access to them online. Sadly, an undercover FBI agent was among the first of his clients.

A new supercomputer, called Catalyst, is being deployed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. The supercomputer makes use of SSDs in place of DRAM and hard drives, in an attempt to achieve faster data transfer speeds.

Artificial intelligence is pushing new frontiers in today's digital age. IBM's Watson is a striking example, being probably the most intelligent computer in the world. Whereas Watson can converse with humans well, it still can't distinguish well between the underlying subtlety of different words, something Eric Brown is trying to help it with.

Given the sheer amount of data that needs to be sifted through for large-scale calculations such as worldwide weather forecast, supercomputers are a necessity. The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility has now launched the world's fastest supercomputer, Titan, for researchers from a number of fields.

Day by day, Kickstarter projects are grabbing public's attention. Again this time, an interesting new project is waiting in Kickstarter for public's response. Chipmaker Adapteva wants to make parallel computing available to everyone. The semiconductor company named the project Parallella. If the company achieves success, the cost of their developed…

Watson is IBM's super-computer which the company has been using to crunch the huge amount of financial data and present intelligence solutions to companies such as Citigroup. Now, IBM intends to enter the mobile app realm by pitching Watson as a speech-based smart assistant.

For long, mankind has wondered about the universe in which we live in. While in older days, most of thoughts about it were limited to speculation or intelligent guesses, in modern day advanced equipment and machines has made it possible to make fairly accurate guesses. A team of researchers has now used a supercomputer to create a simulation of the…