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Computer Glitch Hits DMV; Other Calif. State Agencies May Be Affected

August 14, 2012, 9:17 am • Posted by Laird Harrison
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Update at 1:20 p.m: The Department of Vehicles reports that it has restored service. Updated at 11:45 p.m: A computer outage on Tuesday  hit the California Department of Motor Vehicles statewide and may have affected other departments. DMV spokesperson Jan … Continue reading »

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At 16 Petaflops, East Bay Supercomputer Named World's Fastest

June 18, 2012, 11:45 am • Posted by KQED News Staff
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A new ranking out this morning shows that an IBM system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has broken the world speed record. The IBM Sequoia can do more than 16 quadrillion floating-point calculations per second, or 16 petaflops. That blows … Continue reading »

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