Whats 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.
