Despite China’s official request that Japan’s Norwegian ambassador not attend the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize in December, Japan’s Foreign Minister indicated today that the ambassador plans to attend. Seiji Maehara, the Japanese Foreign Minister, said, “‘Japan believes it is a very important prize and the Japanese ambassador (to Norway) took part in past [...]
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New Chinese Supercomputer The Most Super, For Now
Posted by David DeMark on November 16th, 2010
On Friday, a Chinese supercomputer named Tianhe-1A broke the official world record for computing speed. Japan is working on a supercomputer 4 times larger than Tianhe-1A, while IBM and Oak Ridge National Laboratory are already working on even larger supercomputers that they plan to have completed in 2012. But computer experts and bloggers note that [...]
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