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Supercomputing's future: Is it CPU or GPU?

Supercomputing's future: Is it CPU or GPU?

...x86/x86-64 as a real technology for HPC — offering better price-performance against high-end supercomputers — many high-end computing advocates argued that price... Read more

16 June, 2010 by Andrew Jones

China builds world's fastest supercomputer

...were developed by Dongarra, measure the floating-point computing power of high-performance systems. HPL is a software package that is an implementation of the... Read more

29 October, 2010 by Tom Espiner
ManageEngine OpManager 9.0

ManageEngine OpManager 9.0

...to-end Network & IT infrastructure monitoring platform that offers advanced fault and performance management across WAN, VoIP services, network devices, servers, applications, databases and other... Read more

3 April, 2012
Portfolio <endeca_term>Performance</endeca_term> Tracking 2.0

Portfolio Performance Tracking 2.0

The Portfolio Performance Tracking template for Mac enables the ongoing monitoring and periodic valuation of... Read more

29 February, 2012
Portfolio <endeca_term>Performance</endeca_term> Monitoring 2.0

Portfolio Performance Monitoring 2.0

The Excel Portfolio Performance Monitoring template enables the ongoing monitoring and periodic valuation of a portfolio... Read more

29 February, 2012

EU to double supercomputing funding to ?1.2bn

...after the European Commission announced plans to double its funding of high-performance computing. Annual investment in supercomputing equipment, training and research will go from... Read more

16 February, 2012 by Jack Clark
MM4XL - Marketing Manager for Excel 9.0

MM4XL - Marketing Manager for Excel 9.0

...planning and survey data analysis; (3) Sales Analysis Tools: Sales and marketing performance management tools for the analysis of sales, trends and marketing data in... Read more

22 January, 2012
Orion Network <endeca_term>Performance</endeca_term> Monitor 10.2

Orion Network Performance Monitor 10.2

Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) makes it easy to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve performance... Read more

8 December, 2011

UK to spend £145m on computing infrastructure

...earmarked £145m for improvements on the country's e-infrastructure and high-performance computing, in the hope the technologies will spur business growth. Science minister... Read more

3 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Nvidia chief hails second-generation Android tablets

...the first generation of devices, which met with complaints about pricing and performance. Nvidia's chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang says the second round of... Read more

16 May, 2011 by Erica Ogg
Home Energy <endeca_term>Performance</endeca_term> Pro UK 1.0

Home Energy Performance Pro UK 1.0

...a certified tool, will perform on-site diagnosis regulatory, use Home Energy Performance to know quickly and reliably the energy class of property ("Pre Certificate... Read more

19 March, 2011

Internet Explorer 9 release candidate arrives

...the rest of the web. Microsoft said it has improved IE9's performance since the beta release in September. Its Chakra JavaScript engine is now... Read more

11 February, 2011 by Simon Bisson
Nvidia looks to the future of GPU computing

Nvidia looks to the future of GPU computing

...really taking off now? A: It showed up at a time when performance was having a very difficult time scaling because of power and architectural... Read more

26 October, 2010 by Mary Branscombe

HP creates GPU server for high-performance needs

...at performing floating-point calculations, which makes them capable of improving graphics performance. They are also useful for cheap high-performance computing (HPC) and for... Read more

6 October, 2010 by Jack Clark
Is power-hungry supercomputing OK now?

Is power-hungry supercomputing OK now?

...to operate. But what if the next factor of 1,000-fold performance increase needs 100MW, asks Andrew Jones. I was recently interviewed about deploying... Read more

23 September, 2010 by Andrew Jones

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

54 minutes ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

496,999 BT Fon Hotspots lovingly situated in your next door neighbours garden, no matter how you dress that up its still a pup... Not where I need...

3 hours ago by bobandroid on London Olympics: BT needs 25,000 more Wi-Fi hotspots
apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

4 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

5 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

5 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

7 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

8 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

9 hours ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

10 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

11 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

12 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

12 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

13 hours ago by mrbigdong on A minor Bitcoin miner injury?
Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

17 hours ago by Mike Denton via Facebook on Security on the farm: Accounts and permissions
minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

19 hours ago by minzhu on RIM CEO: Time to squash BlackBerry myths
Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

21 hours ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

1 day ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

1 day ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
Iain Sutherland

I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

1 day ago by Iain Sutherland via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
SoapyTablet

If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

1 day ago by SoapyTablet on Huawei, ZTE face EU 'illegal state subsidies' probe