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Top 500 supercomputers: Welcome to the petaflop generation 19/06/2008 10:22:59
Welcome to the petaflop generation. That was the message as the new most powerful supercomputer in the world IBM's $100,000 million Roadrunner system installed at the US Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory was officially named the most powerful and energy efficient supercomputer in the world. - +
How power-hungry are the Top500 supercomputers? 19/06/2008 08:38:05
Proving that size isn't everything, the Top500 List of supercomputers for the first time is looking at power efficiency. - +
Los Alamos: Roadrunner as important as first computer 17/06/2008 07:47:48
A research director at Los Alamos National Laboratories said the addition of a peta-scale supercomputer is as big a leap forward as when scientists got their hands on their first computer ever. - +
IBM breaks petaflop record - now, what about the exaflop? 10/06/2008 08:06:31
Now that IBM has broken supercomputing's petaflop barrier with its RoadRunner system, capable of more than one thousand trillion (one quadrillion) sustained floating-point operations per second, attention among supercomputer developers turns next to a new performance goal: an exascale system. - +
Happy birthday, x86! An industry standard turns 30 05/06/2008 08:21:38
Thirty years ago, on June 8, 1978, Intel introduced its first 16-bit microprocessor, the 8086, with a splashy ad heralding "the dawn of a new era." Overblown? Sure, but also prophetic. While the 8086 was slow to take off, its underlying architecture -- later referred to as x86 -- would become one of technology's most impressive success stories. - +
IBM set to test the fastest computer in the world 14/05/2008 08:10:06
Engineers and technicians at IBM are assembling the final pieces of what they hope will soon become the world's most powerful supercomputer - doubling the speed of the today's fastest machine. - +
IT vet talks about the most influential computers 30/04/2008 13:16:10
Gordon Bell has been working in the IT industry for nearly 50 years. He was a key engineer and vice president of research and development at minicomputer pioneer Digital Equipment Corp. for 23 years and later a founder of the Computer History Museum. Today Bell is a principal researcher at Microsoft. - +
Cray, Intel sign pact to build petascale computers 29/04/2008 14:39:50
Intel and Cray have launched a joint effort to develop new multi-core technologies as part of an effort to build multi-petascale systems. - +
DARPA taps Sun to take microprocessors to 'macrochip' level 26/03/2008 09:39:28
When it comes to computing technology, the research goal of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency can be summed up in two words: power and speed. - +
Supercomputer travels back in time to predict climate future 25/01/2008 09:45:26
To try to assess global warming's impact on the environment and see if the world faces an abrupt climate change, Zhengyu Liu, director of the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, is turning to supercomputing technology. - +
Forecasting the future of business intelligence 12/12/2007 12:41:35
Business intelligence is off the chartsLast week Business Objects signed a deal with SPSS to link its predictive analytics application to the Business Objects platform.
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Computerworld Live Podcast #97: The Future of Enterprise Networking 25/07/2008 09:45:36
This week CW Live chats with Mark Thompson, global sales and marketing manager for HP ProCurve, on the future of the enterprise networking. Mark discusses the trends we can expect to see in the near future and how the right infrastructure can ensure your enterprise network is secure. - +
Computerworld Live Podcast #96: Security at the Edge 11/06/2008 09:22:22
CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
Data Management Edition #10: Multi-Petascale Systems 02/05/2008 09:12:33
This week we look at sustainability and the development of multicore technologies to build multi-petascale systems. - +
IT Security Edition #11: How to poison the Storm botnet 01/05/2008 08:51:55
This week CW Live presents a case study on how to poison the notorious Storm botnet . Plus we take a look at Cisco's plans for Ironport. - +
IT Security Edition #10: Cyber-battles fought and won 24/04/2008 11:09:47
Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future.
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