Stories by Mark Willoughby

The future is more than Moore's was

Moore's Law is dead. Long live Moore's Law, which for most of us was the opening salvo in the intellectual exercise of relating society to technology.

Supercomputing goes global

Size matters in supercomputers because size translates into speed. And supercomputers are all about speed. The quest for the fastest computer to discover new drugs, crack ciphertext or model global weather and nuclear reactions has set a lot of records in a short time.