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A Year Ago: Quantum computing - a step nearer?
News Calculations with qubits produce all possible results simultaneously, effectively by creating sufficient parallel universes to contain them at the same time. In computing terms, these two energy states can be used to represent 0 and 1, the...
[September 8, 1999, 6:49]
Adobe takes to GridIron
News The first two versions work best with "embarrassingly parallel" computing jobs, in which a task can easily be split so it runs on a large number of computing nodes, said Gord Watts, vice president of marketing at GridIron.
[February 3, 2004, 8:55]
How to get a supercomputer for free
News In the vector processor used by NEC's SX-6i, a calculation can be performed on 256 bits of data in parallel, making it ideal for big computational jobs such as climate research and fluid dynamics. It all stacks up to eight billion floating point...
[February 24, 2003, 16:32]
Dell Inspiron 2650 review
Reviews You get a parallel port and twin USB connectors, but no serial, TV-out or FireWire (IEEE 1394) ports. Graphics processing is handled by an nVidia GeForce2 Go 100 chipset with 16MB of DDR memory. Recent price cuts have brought the cost of this...
[June 18, 2002, 10:20]
IBM goes retro to bridge the supercomputing divide
News Such a system would have 32 parallel calculation engines, called floating-point units, and if there's sufficient demand from top-drawer customers such as national laboratories, IBM could build necessary software tools to create larger systems, he...
[October 26, 2004, 11:50]
IBM: Mainframes enjoying global resurgence
News Sheina said modern mainframe architectures today have been fitted with new partitioning, virtualisation and workload-management techniques, and can host multiple operating systems, emulate other hardware platforms and have the capacity to support...
[August 18, 2008, 11:14]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News Anyway, that's not what we're on about: we're talking Z buffers and texture units and parallel rendering and interlace interpolation -- and when the guy from 3DFX finally arrived to demo his Voodoo2 card(s) it got seriously embarrassing.
[December 13, 1997, 7:00]
Sun chips hit a snag
News Both chips will be sold in parallel with new products that employ "chip multithreading" technology. The Menlo Park, California company, whose primary business is selling servers that handle network storage and processing tasks, has tried to chart...
[June 5, 2003, 7:39]
Inside Intel's Core architecture review
Reviews The product of a major debate within Intel (what Pat Gelsinger, General Manager of the Digital Enterprise Group, called the 'speed freaks versus brainiacs'), it marks the victory of those who felt that extra performance was best achieved not by...
[July 28, 2006, 9:10]
Hi-Grade Ultinote M6500-2000 review
Reviews At the rear, there's an S-video out connector, four USB ports, plus parallel, RJ-II modem and VGA ports. On the other hand, the M6500’s extra processing power is put to good use in the Content Creation Winstone 2002 test, where it scored 28.7...
[June 25, 2002, 16:08]
Dell Latitude D420 review
Reviews Our review unit came with a Media Base that added a DVI output and parallel port, plus a DVD burner. The small screen at that resolution makes for some potentially hard-to-read text, but we didn't have any trouble with basic Web surfing or word...
[September 26, 2006, 8:50]
Acer Aspire 1714SMi review
Reviews The rear panel houses a PS/2 connector, a parallel port, a Gigabit Ethernet port, a modem port, an S-Video port for connecting the 1714SMi to a TV and two additional USB 2.0 ports, bringing the total number of USB ports on the system to four.
[September 15, 2004, 8:20]
OpenOffice.org 3.0 - Stop Paying Microsoft for Bug Fixes!
Blog If you think that you are so advanced and use such sophisticated features that this might not be the case for you, I still suggest that you install OpenOffice in parallel to MS Office, and give it a try, I think you are very likely to be...
[October 15, 2008, 13:37]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback When U.S put strategic imposition on giving its CRAY XMP Super computers to INDIA, we indegenioulsy developed our own PARAM 2000 super computer series within 1 year which used a different technology (PARALLEL Processing / CRAY used Multi...
[September 2, 2005, 7:29]
Toshiba Satellite 5200-701 review
Reviews The serial, parallel and PS/2 ports have gone, and in their stead you get three USB connectors, FireWire, a VGA output and a choice of analogue or S/PDIF digital audio, which will come in handy if you have a 5.1 speaker set and want digital...
[November 25, 2002, 10:36]
NEC PowerMate VL370 review
Reviews Connectivity is basic: 10/100Mbps networking, parallel and PS/2 ports, and six USB 2.0 ports. What's required is a system offering excellent value and reliable support — all modern PCs offer more than enough performance for the word processing...
[January 25, 2008, 8:40]
Sun touts its new chip as pure MAJC, Part II
News "We're betting that (the increase of compute-intensiveness) changes the way you handle programs .to be more object-oriented and parallel," Tremblay said. Programs can be structured so various parts can be run in parallel.
[April 25, 2000, 8:40]
Dell Inspiron 8200 review
Reviews There's a mixture of legacy and more modern ports: serial, parallel, VGA, PS/2, infrared, USB (x2), IEEE 1394 and S-Video out. Apart from its MP4-M processor, the Inspiron 8200 is noteworthy for its graphics subsystem, which is driven by nVidia's...
[March 4, 2002, 23:00]
Compaq Armada 100S review
Reviews At the back you get serial, parallel, VGA, PS/2, USB and audio ports, but no TV-out or IEEE 1394. technology allows a notebook to operate in three modes: High Performance mode (maximum CPU clock speed and voltage); Battery Saver mode (reduced CPU...
[October 17, 2000, 0:00]
Dell Precision M40 review
Reviews PC Card expansion is available via a pair of stacked Type II ports, and there's a good complement of I/O connectors -- serial, parallel, VGA, S-Video out, PS/2, infrared, audio (mic in, line-in, headphone/speaker out), 2 USB and one IEEE 1394.
[January 14, 2002, 23:00]
