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Microsoft releases Dryad beta for data crunching

...called DryadLINQ. The system should make it possible to run distributed data-crunching programs across a cluster of servers, as long as the servers are... Read more

21 December, 2010
<endeca_term>Crunching</endeca_term> Large Graphs With Commodity Processors

Crunching Large Graphs With Commodity Processors

Crunching large graphs is the basis of many emerging applications, such as social... Read more

21 April, 2011
Appliance Power: <endeca_term>Crunching</endeca_term> Data Warehousing Workloads Faster And Cheaper Than Ever

Appliance Power: Crunching Data Warehousing Workloads Faster And Cheaper Than Ever

Forrester believes that IBM provides the most comprehensive, scalable enterprise DW appliance family on the market.... Read more

8 March, 2011

IBM rolls out PowerLinux systems for Red Hat and SUSE

The company's new big data-crunching PowerLinux systems run on IBM's Power7 processors and support Red Hat... Read more

26 April, 2012 by Larry Dignan

Hadoop is ready for the enterprise, says Apache

...Software Foundation has pushed out version 1.0 of the big data-crunching software framework Read more

5 January, 2012 by David Meyer

Supercomputing and business intelligence collide

Superfast number-crunching can help businesses respond faster, says Jim Goodnight of SAS A blend... Read more

28 October, 2010 by Nick Heath
Fujitsu Primergy RX300 S7

Fujitsu Primergy RX300 S7

...RX300 S7 proved the equal of the PowerEdge R720 in pure number-crunching terms, even though the Dell server was equipped with slightly quicker 2... Read more

30 April, 2012 by Alan Stevens
OpenOffice.org 3.3

OpenOffice.org 3.3

This is a welcome update, but it's definitely a point release: unless you're looking for an alternative to Microsoft Office on financial or philosophical grounds, 3.3 may not be the version to make you switch. Read more

28 January, 2011 by Mary Branscombe
Be Broadband delays fibre rollout again

Be Broadband delays fibre rollout again

...traffic management As part of its preparations, Be Broadband said it was "crunching the numbers on a variety of different routes" to allow it to... Read more

11 April, 2012 by Ben Woods
Benchmarks: high-end Android smartphones

Benchmarks: high-end Android smartphones

...Android 2.2. However, in practice, smartphones are rarely used for number crunching. It's clear that FroYo's JIT compiler currently only delivers significant... Read more

15 September, 2010 by Christoph H Hochstätter

Predictive analysis: How to make it a success

...with a proof of concept that can be done with manual number crunching or a spreadsheet," says George Johnston, of the professional services firm Deloitte... Read more

10 September, 2010 by Stephen Pritchard
Intel launches Xeon E5 processors

Intel launches Xeon E5 processors

...standard, Intel said."If you only increase the compute side, the number-crunching in the processor, you can't feed it," Lisa Graff, president of... Read more

7 March, 2012 by Jack Clark

Europe plans high-performance 'science cloud'

...Helix Nebula. The 'science cloud' is designed for the large-scale data-crunching that Europe's scientists need to do. According to a CERN statement... Read more

2 March, 2012
Flight Over Sea 3D Screensaver 2.8

Flight Over Sea 3D Screensaver 2.8

...wind carries you somewhere, away from trials and tribulations, away from number-crunching machines, away from your boss. No matter which way it takes you... Read more

21 February, 2012

Software defined radio makes for a happy hack

...itself is carried out by a network of hardware components or by crunching the numbers. With modern processors, indeed, the number crunching often works better... Read more

31 January, 2012

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