On Jan. 14, the U.S. upgraded its main weather forecasting model, which subsequently did a very good job in predicting the track of last week’s East Coast blizzard. It correctly predicted that heavier ...

IBM and Cray have beat out Sun Microsystems to win sizable U.S government contracts to design a new generation supercomputer. On Tuesday the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded ...

IBM's Roadrunner is no longer the fastest computer in the world. Cray's Jaguar has pulled off a stunning victory, kind of like Wile E. Coyote catching that other roadrunner. Here's some from the ...