Grandmaster Fails To Slay The Hydra
News UK chess grandmaster Michael Adams has been soundly beaten in his titanic struggle last week against Hydra, a supercomputer. The battle had been hyped as a clash between man and machine, yet during the games Hydra only used 32 out of the 64 PCs in...
[July 1, 2005, 13:10]
Killing The Corporate Hydra: Spam E-Mail
White Papers This paper describes McAfee's SpamKiller product. The SpamKiller product family from McAfee Security provides industry-leading anti-spam solutions, helping companies of all sizes effectively handle their spam challenge.
[May 1, 2004, 0:00]
Uncrackable Web Server?
News Bodacion compares HYDRA to the systems used in pacemakers and flight control systems and says that because the embedded software is far smaller and less complex than the operating systems running PC servers, it is much more reliable and secure.
[July 28, 2002, 19:52]
MS Delays NT 5.0, Details Exchange Server 5.5
News Gates also said Hydra, the multiuser version of NT, would be the answer to the touted thin client market. Hydra, which enables heavyweight applications to be run on thin clients, will allow users to have the "local computing power to run a lot of...
[November 19, 1997, 9:23]
Chess Grandmaster To Battle Supercomputer
News In a contest that has echoes of Gary Kasparov's epic encounter with IBM's Deep Blue, Adams and the Hydra computer will play up to six games over the next week, for a prize fund of $150,000 (£80,000). Some experts are already predicting that Hydra...
[June 21, 2005, 11:05]
Return Of The Chess-playing Supercomputer
News Facing him across the board - virtually, at any rate - will be Hydra, a supercomputer housed in Abu Dhabi. Hydra is a clustered system made up of 64 PCs each powered by a 3.06GHz Intel Xeon processor running.
[May 24, 2005, 18:25]
RIAA Calls Hacking Claim A Hoax
News The main part of the advisory consisted of Gobbles' claims that its programmers had created a "hydra" -- a worm capable of spreading in a variety of ways -- that infects all major music software. Claims that the music industry hired a group of...
[January 15, 2003, 7:56]
Social Networking: IT Vs HR
Blog Comment While project management software the likes of Hydra enable the tracking and allocating of 'human resources' to particular tasks - the end game is probably to curb the use of computer socialising within the context of work environments to a...
[February 3, 2008, 22:45]
Sun's Plans...and How They Could Go Wrong
Talkback The new threat is a multi-headed hydra in the form of wide-spread Open Source software development. George, I really enjoyed reading your article on ZDnet about Sun's plans. I had a couple of comments to float by you about Sun's strategy and your...
[September 24, 2004, 14:01]
PC Expo: MS Wants 'Windows Everywhere'
News He also demonstrated another use for the multi-user server, code-named Hydra, that Microsoft is building with the help of Citrix Systems Inc.technology. In a keynote speech Wednesday here at PC Expo, Ballmer demonstrated Windows running on almost...
[June 19, 1997, 16:16]
Five Years Ago: PC Expo: MS Wants 'Windows Everywhere'
News He also demonstrated another use for the multi-user server, code-named Hydra, that Microsoft is building with the help of Citrix Systems Inc.technology. First published 19 June, 1997. In a keynote speech Wednesday here at PC Expo, Ballmer...
[June 17, 2002, 7:02]
AST's Centralan Breaks New Ground
News The product was code-named Hydra because it fits a lot of niches, one of which is the low-tech office manager who may not be computerised or may have one old Amstrad PCW lying around, and doesn't want the high administration costs of a PC network.
[August 7, 1996, 14:50]
Intel Eyes 450MHz Chips, 'lean' Clients
News He added that systems based on the spec could hit as low as $500 and could be "diskless" machines that run under a myriad of operating environments, such as the forthcoming multiuser version of Windows NT - called Hydra - or Java.
[November 10, 1997, 9:14]
The Luncher
News Got to get by beauty sleep if I'm going to catch Toshiba's servers, Microsoft's 'Hydra' Citrix-based NT application server, Iomega's n.hand cute stamp-sized memory cards (and BB King party), Cirrus's new graphics chips, Windows CE 2.0 handhelds...
[November 15, 1997, 7:00]
Entertainment Execs: Learning To Live With Piracy
News That sentiment was echoed by Viant's Forest, who likened piracy to a hydra-headed monster where "you cut off one head and a bunch more spring up". It's an unsettling prospect. But this town, long a trendsetter in music and film, is still struggling...
[August 3, 2000, 13:49]
