Stories about: Wolfram Research

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The supercomputer on your desktop 17 February, 2010 06:59

High-performance computing (HPC) has almost always required a supercomputer - one of those room-size monoliths you find at government research labs and universities.
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WolframAlpha takes search in a whole new direction 19 May, 2009 08:28

After much online chatter and media buildup, WolframAlpha is up and running, promising to take online search in a whole new direction.
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Apple re-releases critical security patch 22 August, 2005 08:08

Apple has re-released a mammoth security patch after the original update broke 64-bit applications.
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Apple shifting from PowerPC to Intel 07 June, 2005 07:39

Macintosh computers using Intel chips will be on the market by this time next year with all Apple Computer Macs moved over to Intel chips by the end of 2007, Apple said Monday at its Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco.
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Start-up Introduces a Technology First: The Personal Supercomputer 06 September, 2004 10:05

With $12 million in funding and a consulting chief scientist from Los Alamos whose research field is efficient computing, high-performance networking and bioinformatics, two of Transmeta's co-founders have reinvented the technical workstation, coming up with a completely new kind of box that's actually a "Personal Cluster" or even a "Personal Supercomputer" - a widget that puts 12 nodes in the space of a classic desktop or 96 nodes in a knee-knocking deskside - both configurations playing to the emerging rage for commodity Linux clusters.
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MACWORLD - Jobs: Mac OS X to be default OS 08 January, 2002 13:50

Calling it the "most crash proof operating system in the world," Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs in his Macworld Expo keynote Monday said that Mac OS X was a raging success and that over 2,500 native apps are available today.
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Linux Software and Servers 14 December, 2000 12:01

Linuxlab (not to be confused with another company, Linuxlabs), announced new 3-in-1 and 4-in-1 servers. MathSoft has released a Linux version of S-PLUS -- a statistical data mining package that analyzes large sets of numbers such as Web traffic, sales numbers, and virtually anything else numerical. API Networks, which as the former Alpha Processor made the Digital Alpha processor, has released a new dual-processor model for OEMs that fits into a 1U chassis. ZeroG, makers of InstallAnywhere, an application software distribution package, released version 3.5 of its Enterprise Edition.
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1999 Editors' Choice Awards 25 January, 2000 12:01

The last year of the 20th century was, all in all, a great year for the Macintosh. As we head into year 17 of the Macintosh Era, it's time for Macworld's annual look at the products that improve the lives of Mac users -- products that make using your Mac easier, let you do your job more effectively, or simply give you freedom you never had before.