September 21, 2007

What's So Super About Supercomputers, Anyway?

By DAN CARNEVALE

At last week's National Science Foundation symposium on "Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation," the speed of new supercomputers was not what people were talking about. How those computers can solve the world's ills — and why they have been slow to take those problems on — was the big topic. The event was held at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, N.Y.

Clas A. Jacobson, chief scientist of controls at United Technologies Corporation, said that even with

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