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May 20, 2015
AI points to better decision-making despite poker match loss

Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists looked to Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center supercomputer Blacklight in their construction of Claudico, a poker-playing artificial intelligence. Claudico came up short against the world's best poker players, but what the scientists have learned spells good news for medical decision-making.

October 17, 2012
Keeping an eye on superfast transactions on Wall Street

Today, humans are generally removed from the process of trading on the financial markets; they have been replaced by algorithms and supercomputers. As such, trading speeds have progressed from microseconds to nanoseconds. Now, researchers are keeping up by using a supercomputer to catch a supercomputer.