Supercomputers used to cost $1 million and up, but no more now that massively parallel coprocessor cards can turn any server into a high performance computer (HPC). Already a $11 billion market, HPCs are moving into every business sector: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog
IDC’S worldwide high-performance computing (HPC) technical server market revenue forecast predicts the market will grow from $11 billion today to almost $14 billion by 2015.
Cognitive computers—cognizers—aim to instill human-like intelligence into our smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices using microchips that emulate the human brain. Dubbed the “Future of Computing” by the NYTimes, one of the “Best Innovation Moments of 2011” by the Washington Post and one of “10 World Changing Ideas” in a Scientific American cover story “A Computer Chip that Thinks” this book reveals how neuroscience and computer science are merging in a new era of intelligent machines light-years beyond Apple's Siri, IBM's Watson.