Supercomputers: The New Face of Wall Street (For Better or Worse)

Joris Maltha, co-founder of Catalogtree, uses data visualization to show the impact that supercomputer error had on the New York Stock Exchange during the most recent crash. "There are no humans involved, its just mathematical algorithms trading amongst themselves," explains Maltha.

See another video at Wall Street: The Speed Traders

Supercomputers 'will fit in a sugar cube', said IBM

"We currently have built this Aquasar system that's one rack full of processors. We plan that 10 to 15 years from now, we can collapse such a system in to one sugar cube - we're going to have a supercomputer in a sugar cube."

Read the full story by the Science and technology reporter for the BBC Jason Palmer