Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
ZDNet Resources
- Sun Labs looks into 'proximity communications'
- At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Las Vegas, David Douglas of Sun Labs shows off a new technology the company is developing inside its labs called "Proximity Communications." The new chip process will allow faster application speeds for high performance computers.
- Tags: Supercomputers
- Videos 2008-04-10
Additional Resources
- Helpdesks and productivity
- Helpdesks and productivityGood start, and then...You lost it.1980 CalledThey want their mainframes back. :DWhy don't you explain your present value...calculation. Do you even know what present value means? What time period are we talking?Huh?You imply that on a Sun Ray platform the only problems are the applications or how they...
- Tags: Call centers, help desk, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPC
- Supercomputers are like muscle cars for IT: Few of us have one, but boy they are fun to look at. IBM on Tuesday touted that its supercomputer built for the National Nuclear Security Administration's Los Alamos National Lab is the most powerful system in the world. It...
- Tags: Supercomputer, Blade, Sony Playstation, Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Chip, Supercomputing, NNSA Supercomputer, Roadrunner, Roadrunner System, Intel Quad-core Blade System, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- IBM to cool chips with H20
- Much like a Porsche boxer engine -- only much, much smaller -- scientists from the IBM Zurich Research Lab and the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin are working on a microchip that uses micro pipes of water to cool itself, IBM announced this morning. The chip's components are...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Supercomputer performs prostate surgery
- A supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center TACC recently piloted a laser to perform prostate surgery on a dog. The operation was done in Houston without the intervention of a human surgeon while the Lonestar supercomputer, a Dell Linux Cluster with 5,840 processors, was in Austin. According to TACC,...
- Tags: Treatment, Houston, Supercomputer, Austin, Surgery, Laser, Lonestar, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Why Linux won the embedded market?
- Why Linux won the embedded market?Name of the game is scalability ...That's were Linux shines in this respect. From tiny embedded systems all the way up to massive teraflop supercomputers, [b]that's[/b] scalability.The world doesn't owe its living to Microsoftand in the cut throat business world why on earth would any...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Corporate law, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- Here we go again ...
- Here we go again ...Pure marketing hype.I agree with you, show me SOMETHING.It's time for ZDNet to hold Intel to the same standardsAMD has to update partners on roadmaps. The roadmaps leak, and ZDNet bloggers like Adrian and the former blogger George Ou delight in ripping AMD up for how...
- Tags: Processors, Blogging, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-08
- New approach gives Purdue serious computing power
- Purdue University will be replacing its current research computing clusters on May 5th with one of the world's largest supercomputers. While this isn't especially surprising at a school known for its computer science expertise, the funding model and installation are far more novel. Interestingly, the supercomputer,...
- Tags: Purdue University, Supercomputer, Computing, Computer, Productivity, Research & Development, Business Operations, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Self-healing ceramics for nuclear safety
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PNNL researchers have used supercomputers to simulate how common ceramics could repair themselves after radiation-induced damages. This is an important discovery because 'materials that can resist radiation damage are needed to expand the use of nuclear energy.' These ceramics, which are able to handle high-radiation doses,...
- Tags: Oxygen, Atom, Defect, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-19
- Yahoo inks cloud computing research pact with Tata unit
- Yahoo said Monday that it has signed a cloud computing research pact with Computational Research Laboratories, a Pune, India-based subsidiary of Tata. Under the deal, Computational Research Laboratories CRL will make one of its supercomputers available for cloud computing research. Yahoo says it will use its CRL...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Supercomputer, Yahoo! Inc., Distributed Computing, Computational Research Laboratories, Network Technology, Open Source, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Arthur C. Clarke: All These Worlds Are Yours
- Arthur C. Clarke: All These Worlds Are YoursArthur C. Clarke : The beacon to the human race is no moreLike the rest of the world I was also very saddened by his death. He lived a full life and was the same shining personality till the end.As a kid whose...
- Tags: Robots, Arthur C. Clarke, HAL
- Discussion threads 2008-03-19
- What 2.484564472E24 means for internet security
- What 2.484564472E24 means for internet securityYou missed one...4) One time pads. Theoretically unbreakableAs for what 2.484564472E24 means for internet security, you didn't tell us. All you was list 2 common encoding techniques, missed off the most secure one of the lot and then babbled on about language and universal translators.Is...
- Tags: Digital security, Network security, SECURITY, Internet, DES, error rate, algorithm, Internet security
- Discussion threads 2008-03-06
- Supercomputing and the art of the sales pitch
- Supercomputers are wonderful things. Meaningful research gets done and geeks everywhere can drool over the specs like car buffs fawning over a vintage Corvette. But there's also a subtle sales pitch, which explains why most large tech vendors play like IBM and HP play in the high-performance computing space. ...
- Tags: Supercomputer, Sun Microsystems Inc., Supercomputing, Sales Strategy, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- High-performance servers up 15.5% in 2007
- The market for high performance computing HPC servers grew 15.5% in 2007 to reach a record $11.6 bln, according to IDC. IDC reported that the HPC server market resumed strong double-digit growth in 2007 after dipping to 9.2% growth in 2006 – the first single-digit increase since 2002. Over the...
- Tags: High-performance Computing, High-performance, High Performance Computing Server, Servers, Hardware, AM
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- U.K.'s Elonex readies low-cost Linux laptop
- U.K.'s Elonex readies low-cost Linux laptopPotential but.....until I see it it's vaporware. The cost seems right. I have nothing against Linux. However the missing component is an actual system up and running for said price.Pagan jimanother agenda perhaps?It just could be that the Brits want their kids...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux proponent, Linux, laptop computer, Elonex, low-cost Linux laptop, Linux laptop, multimedia
- Discussion threads 2008-02-18
- Build a 10 Gbit home network for $1100
- Create the ultimate gaming supercomputer? You've overclocked, water cooled, matched DIMMs, added 10k drives and the latest 1 GB video card. But so have all your friends. What now? How about a 10 Gig home network for the ultimate gaming supercomputer? In a pricing breakthrough...
- Tags: Kit, Network, Home Network, Supercomputer, Adapter, Pricing Strategy, InfiniBand, Networking, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Google's parallel programming model
- Two Google Fellows just published a paper in the latest issue of Communications of the ACM about MapReduce, the parallel programming model used to process more than 20 petabytes of data every day on commodity-based clusters. The latest statistics included in the paper are from September 2007. They show that...
- Tags: Google Inc., Programming Model, Programming, MapReduce, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- MIT students at it again: bike-powered supercomputers
- MIT students at it again: bike-powered supercomputerspedal power.Do you have a source for parts and blueprints?
- Tags: supercomputer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Discussion threads 2007-12-22
- MIT students at it again: bike-powered supercomputers
- 10 MIT students rode bicycles attached to dynamos and powered a Linux-based supercomputer for 20 minutes, according to an article in Computerworld. The effort, designed to both win a place in the Guinness Book of World Records and to win a prize from Google, also highlighted low-power computer designs...
- Tags: Supercomputer, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- A supercomputer to design better plants?
- Is it possible to create more productive crops than nature does without growing hybrids or genetically modified plants? According to researchers at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC, the answer is yes . They've simulated photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert light to energy, with the help of supercomputers...
- Tags: Researcher, Protein, Supercomputer, Gene, Plant, Computer, UIUC, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
White Papers and Webcasts
The Cisco Mobility Resource Center offers FREE videos, downloads, podcasts and more, all designed to help small and medium businesses get mobile connectivity solutions, improve productivity and drive sales and revenue.
Tech news covering the latest in products, conferences and blog commentary, from ZDNet video.
Latest Topics: Running virtual machines and DHCP can cause Intel® AMT to be inaccessible; Wildcard certificates are currently not supported for remote; Dell 755 returns a duplicate UUID during activation configuration.
