Google and NASA hope lightning-fast computers will unlock the secrets of nature The Japan Times

PALO ALTO – Google has a lot of computers. By many accounts, it has more computers than any other company in the world. Yet even with so much horsepower at their disposal, Google's researchers keep running into barriers when trying to solve certain complex problems, particularly those tied to artificial intelligence. Google, in effect, has been stumped. "We have already encountered problems we would like to solve that are unfeasible with conventional computers," John Giannandrea, a vice president for engineering at Google, said during a new conference on Tuesday. "We want to understand the future that may lie ahead of us in nonconventional computing."