• Colossus is a supercomputer developed by xAI, an artificial intelligence (AI) company founded by Elon Musk. Construction on Colossus began in 2024 in Memphis...
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  • Charles A. Forbin is the chief designer of a secret project, "Colossus", an advanced supercomputer built to control the United States and Allied nuclear weapon...
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  • world's largest AI supercomputer Colossus class (disambiguation) (UK) French ship Colosse HMS Colossus (UK) USS Colossus (US) Colossus Cinemas, a Canadian...
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    The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a year. The first of these updates always coincides with the International...
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    A supercomputer is a type of computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is...
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    planning on building Colossus, the world's largest supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee. After a 122-day construction, the supercomputer went fully operational...
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  • is a historical list of fastest computers and includes computers and supercomputers which were considered the fastest in the world at the time they were...
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    is generally considered the first supercomputer. However, some earlier computers were considered supercomputers for their day such as the 1954 IBM NORC...
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    purpose-built computer centre in the world, having housed six of the ten Colossus computers that were in use at the end of World War II. As well as first...
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  • reliability of any supercomputer ever built, and "was supercomputing's high-water mark in longevity, price, and performance". NEC's SX-9 supercomputer was the world's...
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  • where its predecessor, The Fall of Colossus leaves off, with the supercomputer Colossus immobilized and the Martians arriving on Earth. They appear before...
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    commissioned Flowers to build the Colossus. He spent eleven months from early February 1943 designing and building the first Colossus. After a functional test...
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    (1967), "Lodestar" (1973), and "Mirkhiem" (1977) Colossus and Guardian: Colossus is a military supercomputer built by Dr. Charles Forbin to control the nuclear...
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  • for reinforcement learning research. Nvidia gifted its first DGX-1 supercomputer to OpenAI in August 2016 to help it train larger and more complex AI...
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  • function CPU on a chip, released in 1971 500×103: Colossus computer vacuum tube cryptanalytic supercomputer, 1943 1×106: computing power of the Motorola 68000...
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    building the more flexible Colossus computer (which superseded the Heath Robinson). After a functional test in December 1943, Colossus was shipped to Bletchley...
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    independent decision. Colossus (1966) is a series of science fiction novels and film about a defense super-computer called Colossus that was "built better...
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    vat of life-sustaining liquid, and connect its neurons by wires to a supercomputer that would provide it with electrical impulses identical to those a...
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    arithmetic, rather than binary arithmetic like the Z3, the ABC and Colossus. Like the Colossus, ENIAC required rewiring to reprogram until April 1948. In June...
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  • Control Data Corporation (category Supercomputers)
    Control Data Corporation (CDC) was a mainframe and supercomputer company that in the 1960s was one of the nine major U.S. computer companies, which group...
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    manually reconfigured or fixed function computers of the 1940s, such as the Colossus and the ENIAC. These were programmed by setting switches and inserting...
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  • explains how its intellect is dwarfed by an earlier transcended DOD Supercomputer called Honest Annie, whose intellect and abilities far exceed that of...
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  • concept known as the intelligence explosion, Good served as consultant on supercomputers to Stanley Kubrick, director of the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey...
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    creation of a 750,000 square foot Memphis-based data center to host Colossus, a supercomputer. Supermicro also supplied servers for Tesla's Gigafactory Texas...
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    IBM (redirect from Colossus of Armonk)
    Since the 1990s, IBM has concentrated on computer services, software, supercomputers, and scientific research; it sold its microcomputer division to Lenovo...
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    television film The Point! Uncredited voice of the sentient supercomputer Colossus in the film Colossus: The Forbin Project Narration for the spoof short film...
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  • Highlander: The Source (2007) Guardian, a supercomputer in American science fiction thriller film Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) Guardians, player...
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    compute cluster with ~15,000 commodity-class PCs instead of expensive supercomputer hardware to save money. To make up for the lower hardware reliability...
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    first season include Xavier, Jean Grey, Archangel, Blob, Lady Deathstryke, Colossus, Psylocke, Sabretooth, Spiral, Illyana Rasputina / Magik / Darkchylde,...
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  • Roadrunner No.1 Supercomputer. For the ninth consecutive time, IBM takes the No.1 ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers with its computer...
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