{"id":24094,"date":"2016-03-29T22:47:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T05:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/researchers-found-a-way-to-shrink-a-supercomputer-to-the-size-of-a-laptop"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:04:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:04:21","slug":"researchers-found-a-way-to-shrink-a-supercomputer-to-the-size-of-a-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/researchers-found-a-way-to-shrink-a-supercomputer-to-the-size-of-a-laptop","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Found a Way to Shrink a Supercomputer to the Size of a Laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-found-a-way-to-shrink-a-supercomputer-to-the-size-of-a-laptop.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the University of Lund in Sweden have found a way to use \u201cbiological motors\u201d for parallel computing. The findings could mean vastly more powerful and energy efficient computers in a decade\u2019s time.<\/p>\n<p>Nanotechnologists at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunduniversity.lu.se\" target=\"_blank\">Lund University<\/a> in Sweden have discovered a way to miniaturize the processing power that is found today only in the largest and most unwieldy of supercomputers. Their findings, which were published in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2016\/02\/17\/1510825113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i><\/a>, point the way to a future when our laptops and other personal, handheld computing devices pack the computational heft of a Cray <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olcf.ornl.gov\/titan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Titan<\/a> or IBM <a href=\"http:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/systems\/technicalcomputing\/solutions\/bluegene\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Gene\/Q<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But the solution may be a little surprising.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/researchers-found-way-shrink-supercomputer-size-laptop\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/researchers-found-way-shrink-supercomputer-size-laptop\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of Lund in Sweden have found a way to use \u201cbiological motors\u201d for parallel computing. The findings could mean vastly more powerful and energy efficient computers in a decade\u2019s time. Nanotechnologists at Lund University in Sweden have discovered a way to miniaturize the processing power that is found today only in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,4,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24094"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67872,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24094\/revisions\/67872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}