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- PS3 chip powers world's fastest computer
- Some scoffed at the 8 PS3 supercomputer. But not the scientists at Los Alamos National Labs. They used the idea to build a 1 petaflop computer named Roadrunner - the world's fastest. Here's how. 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second Fine-grained simulation of aging nuclear...
- Tags: Sony PlayStation 3, Storage, AMD Opteron, RAM, Computer, Cell, Chip, Roadrunner, PowerXCell, InfiniBand, Processors, Networking, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Ghostly ring found circling dead star
- An international team of scientists has found a strange ring around a dead star by using images taken by NASA's Spitzer space telescope. This star, called SGR 1900+14, belongs to a class of objects known as magnetars. According to NASA, a magnetar is 'a highly magnetized neutron star and the...
- Tags: NASA, Star, Ring, Magnetic Field, SGR, Magnetars, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-01
- Another reason Microsoft should give up on Yahoo: Morale
- Companies at least publicly traded ones are beholden to shareholders. But they also are beholden to their employees. And while most Softies are afraid to state for the record that they think Microsoft should abandon its takeover of Yahoo, that opinion is a real and prevailing sentiment among many in...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Microsoft Windows, Professional Development, Investment, Finance, Operating Systems, Software, Career, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Toshiba to open up U.S. nuclear-power business
- Toshiba to open up U.S. nuclear-power businessHah. Fat chance.Americans have been programmed to think nuclear radiation is the most toxic material on the planet.RE: Toshiba to open up U.S. nuclear-power businessOne mention of the words 'Nuclear Power' and everyone freaks out. They immediately link it to nuclear fission, which...
- Tags: Toshiba Corp., nuclear-power business, reactor, nuclear energy
- Discussion threads 2008-03-06
- Parsing the federal budget: The tech highlights
- President Bush unveiled his $3.1 trillion--yes trillion--fiscal 2009 budget and there are a lot of technology highlights to go around. Whether this budget ever gets approved anywhere near its current state remains to be seen (fiscal 2008's budget isn't official), but directionally there are some key highlights....
- Tags: Budget, National Science Foundation, NASA, Department Of Veteran Affair, VA, Nanotechnology, Hacking, Semiconductors, Security, Viruses And Worms, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- Microsoft makes Visual Studio 2008 more broadly available
- Microsoft makes Visual Studio 2008 more broadly availabledoes anyone really care about pricey M$ tools?even on windoze there are better and free development tools created by the community.I don't even count Linux because M$ is a 'no show' here.RE: Vista and Windows Server 2008--an unbreakable couple?Huh? This isn't the article...
- Tags: Microsoft development tools, PRODUCTIVITY, .NET, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Application servers, Middleware, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft .NET, tool, FoxPro
- Discussion threads 2008-01-29
- The Big Switch: The network becomes the data center
- The Big Switch: The network becomes the data centerSounds like McNealy's Big Friggin Webtone Switch 2.0Sounds like McNealy's Big Friggin Webtone Switch 2.0. Only this time, there won't even be ANY servers. It will be in the magical cloud. The network is the computer, who needs computers....
- Tags: Data centers, Servers, Reading, data center, server, consolidation, Big Switch, network
- Discussion threads 2008-01-13
- Red shift meets event horizon
- I was amazed to read reports of a dinner last week at which top Sun executives sitting around the same table seem to have made statements that totally contradict one another. On the one hand, Greg Papadopoulos, Sun CTO and executive vice president of R&D, was telling...
- Tags: Danger, Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Solar Energy, Power Generation, Grid, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- Sun hungrily awaits the Red Shift
- Sun has changed its ticker symbol to Java [JAVAD] and performed reverse stock split surgery, but the focus on the company remains consistent--be the infrastructure provider for the wired planet. The mission was reaffirmed last night by Sun executives during a dinner with a few journalists at the...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Leadership, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- Helium leads to geothermal energy resources
- When we think about alternative sources of energy, we often forget the potential of geothermal energy resources. In fact, it has been estimated that accessible geothermal energy in the U.S. represents 90 quadrillion kilowatt-hours or 3,000 times the country's total annual energy consumption. So far, it has been difficult and...
- Tags: Earth, Researcher, Fluid, Energy, Arizona State University, Energy Resource, Web Site Development, Productivity, Web Technology, Internet, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-02
- Wyona Yulup (xpi)
- Yulup makes Content Management as simple as it gets. It decouples the Content Management User Interface from the server through the implementation of Neutron, Atom, and WebDAV protocols. Yulup allows editing of Plain-Text, HTML, XHTML, and arbitrary XML with XSLT stylesheets applied documents in source and WYSIWYG mode. This version...
- Tags: Wyona, Wyona Yulup, Content Management, Web Technology, Xhtml, XML, Enterprise Software, Software, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-09-26
- Boron buckyballs are coming
- Boron buckyballs are comingBoron BuckyballsTHis could be the beginning of the technology needed to advance the research into effective methods of containing nuclear waste. Boron is quite effective as a neutron sponge, it's structure absorbs those extra neutrons generated in a reactor core and could be effective in surrounding...
- Tags: Semiconductors, reactor, NanoApex, nanotechnology, Boron, carbon, nuclear waste
- Discussion threads 2007-04-24
- Neutron (zip)
- Neutron is a simple and small time synchronizing program that retrieves the accurate time from one of several specialized time servers on the Internet. Once the network time has been retrieved the program can set your computer's clock to match it. Options in the program enable you to automatically obtain...
- Tags: Program, Neutron, Internet, Productivity, Servers, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-02-08
- The two hearts of LISA Pathfinder
- As you might already know, LISA, a joint mission from ESA and NASA which is scheduled for 2014, will test the fundamental theories of gravitation, including Einsteins General Relativity. In "The day LISA Pathfinder hung in the balance," the European Space Agency reminds us that this mission relies on two...
- Tags: laser, Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, LISA Pathfinder
- Blog posts 2006-10-12
- Start-up bags funding for solar concentrators
- Start-up bags funding for solar concentratorsSimply outstanding.I wish them all the best in their efforts.StupidYou'd think the scientists at Parc would know better. At an incidence of 1 kilowatt per square meter optimum there simply isn't enough solar radiation impacting the surface of the planet to support an industrialized society.Physics...
- Tags: kW, concentrator
- Discussion threads 2006-07-25
- Photos: Smokey Bear's neutron tool
- A plane swoops toward a wildfire to dump its payload of flame retardant. Dramatic, yes. But heroic pilots are only part of the story.
- Tags: pilot, payload, tool
- Image galleries 2006-06-01
- Photos: Smokey Bear's neutron tool
- A plane swoops toward a wildfire to dump its payload of flame retardant. Dramatic, yes. But heroic pilots are only part of the story.
- Tags: pilot, payload, tool
- Image galleries 2006-06-01
- Ageism, IT, and Jobs
- Ageism, IT, and JobsContract work.Here in the US consultants are hired to do what they have a proven record of doing. An older person can keep exercizing documented skills, but will probably not be able to demonstrate new ones.Software and people are assumed to become obsolete simultaneously.Ageism in ITHere...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, information technology, Ageism
- Discussion threads 2006-04-06
- Is security software a protection racket?
- Is security software a protection racket?They can't give it away for freeThey would get sued for anti-trust faster then I can type this sentence.What I wish the big box shops would start to do is bundle AVG or another free-for-home use Antivirus, instead of the 90 trial of Symantec. ...
- Tags: Operating systems, Windhose, Microsoft Corp., security, Microsoft Windows, software, operating system
- Discussion threads 2006-02-14
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