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Record 1 1997-03-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

A computer that can calculate more that a trillion mathematical operations per second. Based on massively parallel processing, it will team hundreds or thousands of independent processors - silicon chips that perform calculations - to solve problems too imposing for even the most powerful computers today. It will help in areas like ... simulating the body's reaction to a new drug; mapping human genetic structure to better understand inherited diseases : generating models of world's climates, recognizing spoken languages and images in order to improve the versatility of factory robots.

CONT

True teraflop machines (Mr. Gordon Bell, an American guru of supercomputing, christened them ultracomputers) will be available in 1995 for a bargain - basement $ 40m.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
OBS

Voie térabit, gigabit et giga-réseau

Spanish

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