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China builds world's fastest supercomputer

...Chinese researchers have built the world's fastest supercomputer, which is almost 50 percent more powerful than its predecessor. The Tianhe... Read more

29 October, 2010 by Tom Espiner
Inside Japan's Top500 K Computer

Inside Japan's Top500 K Computer

...originally appeared as Gallery: Inside Japan's K Computer — world's top supercomputer on ZDNet.com. Get the latest technology news and analysis, blogs and... Read more

21 June, 2011 by Staff
A close-up on Intel's Knights Ferry platform

A close-up on Intel's Knights Ferry platform

The Many Integrated Core architecture will be used in the new Knights Ferry and Knights Corner platforms, aimed at supercomputing tasks Read more

1 June, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins

UK supercomputer probes dark matter and dark energy

...years to look at them all. On the other hand, the Sciama supercomputer can process this data rapidly through the use of parallel computing. "We... Read more

7 February, 2011 by Tim Ferguson

Europe taps Nvidia for ARM-based supercomputer

...s ARM-based processors as the foundation for an experimental low-power supercomputer architecture. The Mont-Blanc Project, which is developing an energy-efficient exascale... Read more

14 November, 2011 by Jack Clark

IBM supercomputer to help build wind farms

...An IBM supercomputer will optimise placement of wind turbines to improve performance, in a classic... Read more

26 October, 2011 by Martin LaMonica

Cray leads US thrust for supercomputer supremacy

...awarded a $97m (£62m) contract to upgrade the US's most powerful supercomputer — the Department of Energy's 'Jaguar' — to a new, more powerful system... Read more

12 October, 2011 by Jack Clark

Intel's Knights Corner to debut in Texas supercomputer

...supercomputing, is set to debut in the University of Texas's Stampede supercomputer in 2013. Work on the 10-petaflop Stampede, which will be housed... Read more

23 September, 2011 by Jack Clark

Japan takes Top500 supercomputer crown from China

...A Japanese machine has taken the title of the most powerful supercomputer in the world, deposing China's Tianhe-1A. The K Computer in... Read more

20 June, 2011 by Jack Clark

Cray taps GPUs for 50-petaflop supercomputer

...credit: Cray The XK6, announced on Tuesday, is made up of multiple supercomputer blade servers. Each blade includes up to four compute nodes containing AMD... Read more

25 May, 2011 by Jack Clark

Chinese supercomputer overtakes Jaguar

...edition of the Top 500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers shows that the Cray XT5 'Jaguar' system has been beaten by the... Read more

15 November, 2010 by Erica Ogg

Jaguar supercomputer faces losing its crown

...The world's fastest supercomputer could lose its title when the next set of rankings are released... Read more

12 November, 2010 by Erica Ogg

MPs: Met Office needs more powerful supercomputer

...are calling for the Met Office to get a dramatically more powerful supercomputer, so it can offer better weather predictions to save lives and provide... Read more

21 February, 2012 by Jack Clark

China aims for exascale computer within 10 years

...China plans to create an exascale supercomputer by 2020 and to develop technologies for it that will wean the... Read more

24 August, 2011 by Jack Clark

IBM pulls out of petascale computing contract

...IBM has left a scheme to develop a supercomputer for US academic research due to ballooning financial and technical support costs... Read more

9 August, 2011 by Jack Clark

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Lonnie

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

9 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Jack Schofield

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

17 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...

18 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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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....

20 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...

21 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

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