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Thinking Machines Corporation's CM-2 supercomputer, 1987. The black, cubic computer case was translucent to allow the suggestively neural-like patterns of computation (an active processor activated a red diode) to be observed.

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See researchers simulate the 3-D motion of the human rhinovirus using IBM Blue Gene Q supercomputer to understand how the virus works

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Thinking Machines Corporation's CM-2 supercomputer, 1987. The black, cubic computer case was translucent to allow the suggestively neural-like patterns of computation (an active processor activated a red diode) to be observed.

Garry Kasparov and Deep Blue

See researchers simulate the 3-D motion of the human rhinovirus using IBM Blue Gene Q supercomputer to understand how the virus works

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