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- 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
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- KAUST to house fastest supercomputer in Middle East
- Thanks to one of my tipsters, I was informed the other day that KAUST, the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, have teamed up with IBM to build the fastest and most powerful supercomputer in the Middle East. KAUST is one of the most modern, dedicated...
- Tags: Supercomputer, University, Middle East, Supercomputing, KAUST, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputer
- Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputerI Wouldn't Use ItWould you if you were a scientific organization that needed precision calculation and system reliability? I'd rather have a beowulf cluster doing my job than this mess.Horse Power NeededYou can now run vista with all its bloatware in full...
- Tags: Operating systems, supercomputer, Cray Inc., WINDOWS BASED, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality
- Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality....Look, our resident troll is back! ]:)OK everybody!Shut everything down. Open Source doesn't work. Go back to proprietary because they never have any security breaches. How many repositories are we talking about? You site one breach and declare the Open...
- Tags: open source, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- News to know: Vista x64; Apple; Phishing; Facebook
- Notable headlines: Jason Perlow: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Windows Vista Ed Bott: You've got Vista x64 questions, I've got answers Jason O'Grady: Apple drops iPhone 2.0.1 software (updated 3x) Infinite Loop: Steve Jobs:...
- Tags: Facebook, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Vyatta, Mauku, Phishing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales Strategy, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Multi-core Intel chips to be used in handhelds and supercomputers?
- Multi-core Intel chips to be used in handhelds and supercomputers?Wow, good news!First off, great article. Enjoyed reading it.Secondly, I have a system that is about three years old in general. Well, the box and mobo. A wonderful DouCore 3.0Mhz machine for testing purposes. I am running, at the time, an...
- Tags: Semiconductors, FSB, Multi-core Intel chip, Multi-Core Intel, Larrabee, processor, NVidia Corp., chip, supercomputer, multi-core, handheld
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- Multi-core Intel chips to be used in handhelds and supercomputers?
- Intel's "Larrabee" family of multi-core chips, originally aimed at the personal-computer graphics market, may now see action in "an increasingly broad spectrum of the computing world, from Windows and Macintosh desktop personal computers to handhelds and even supercomputers," reports the New York Times. Larrabee is slated to...
- Tags: Supercomputer, Handheld, Multi-core, Graphics, Intel Corp., Chip, Larrabee, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Super-duper green computers
- If you think about sheer performance-per-watt potential, it's pretty hard to beat a supercomputer. So any company with gargantuan transaction processing needs might want to scout the latest Green500 list for insight. This list was brought to my attention by SGI, which has 11 entries in...
- Tags: SGI Altix, Silicon Graphics Inc., Computer, Altix ICE, UNIX, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- News to know: Google; Microsoft; eBay; SAP; Apple
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Google's second quarter: What to expect Deb Perelman: The Techie Hall of Shame Phil Wainewright: How much is a unit of cloud computing? Joe McKendrick: Seven SOA experts explain how to 'just do it' Robin...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Supercomputers fight against bird flu
- Supercomputers fight against bird fluCool to see computers help.Thanks for the pictures and technical article the H5N1 virus. So far only three countries have Tamiflu resistant influenza. With the olympics just three weeks and three days away it is worrysome. A snippet is cross posted on the flu wiki...
- Tags: Corporate governance, PRODUCTIVITY, bird flu, supercomputer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Supercomputers fight against bird flu
- A worldwide outbreak of avian or 'bird flu' is still not excluded and health officials recognize that new drugs are needed since new strains of the virus appear everyday. Now, U.S. scientists are using supercomputers to find new drugs to fight the virus and to stay ahead of these mutations....
- Tags: Protein, Compound, Supercomputer, Bird Flu, Scientist, Potential Candidate Drug, Team Management, Cyberthreats, Security, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- 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
- Leading University Creates UK's Fastest Academic Supercomputer Through Collaborative Partnership
- Cambridge University has had supercomputers for use in complex research since 1992. Undertaking ground breaking research, users require cutting edge technology that provides optimum performance. At the end of a three-year system cycle, the university looked to implement a new system that would improve upon previous levels of high performance....
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., University Of Cambridge, Partnership, Supercomputer, High-performance, Leadership, Management
- Case studies 2008-04-30
- 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
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