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Clinton: Relax Crypto Export Controls
News The Clinton administration on Wednesday proposed further easing of encryption exports and expanding of the regions where US companies can ship powerful computers without restrictions. White House officials, along with the FBI, feared that allowing...
[January 11, 2001, 12:11]
China Wants Place On Supercomputer Charts
News The race to make powerful computers is a matter of national pride for China, and the country ranks the activity with space exploration and genetic research as a key indicator of national progress. The 4000A will be a cluster comprised of computers...
[July 25, 2003, 9:31]
Cracking Open The Alienware Area 51 M15x
Articles The m15x is also one of the most powerful notebook computers we have ever reviewed. The Area 51 m15x notebook is the latest in a long line of quality portable computers from boutique manufacturer Alienware.
[June 2, 2008, 11:20]
Intel To Construct Giant Computing Grid For China
News Rival chipmaker AMD is also working with institutions in the country to develop powerful computers. Chip giant Intel yesterday announced it would team with China's Ministry of Education to build a national computing "grid" -- a network of computers...
[September 25, 2003, 10:40]
Storm Worm: More Powerful Than Blue Gene?
News The Storm worm botnet has been estimated to control between one million and five million computers, which one researcher says makes it more powerful than IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer. At the lowest estimate of one million computers, Guttman...
[September 12, 2007, 9:23]
Harnessing The Power Of Corporate P2P
News Order and predictability have always been business imperatives in managing information technologies, which has led to aggregating data on massive, powerful and centralised computers -- the ubiquitous client-server model.
[June 13, 2001, 10:35]
New Features Planned For File Swappers
News Morpheus and Kazaa, by contrast, automatically choose a few powerful computers with fast connections to act as temporary index and switching stations, making searches and network connections faster and more stable.
[December 27, 2001, 11:23]
IBM Leads Linux-desktop Charge
News Instead, IBM has begun a project to seriously evaluate Linux for use on desktop computers, which is a domain where Microsoft is most powerful. Big Blue long has advocated use of the open-source operating system on servers -- powerful networked...
[January 9, 2004, 8:15]
VMware Takes On The High End
News VMware, whose software lets Intel computers run several operating systems simultaneously, announced a major upgrade on Monday that will enable its products to run a new class of more powerful programs.
[February 18, 2003, 10:05]
HP Moves Up In Supercomputer List
News While HP also maintained its lead over IBM in the sheer number of computers on the list -- 138 altogether -- Big Blue extended its lead in the fraction of the total processing power of the 500 machines.
[November 15, 2002, 8:21]
McNealy Makes Pact With His Devil
News McNealy's Sun has championed powerful Unix-based computers and its Java software for building business applications. Each also rose to prominence in the technology business by leading scrappy upstarts that challenged the status quo: Sun, by...
[April 5, 2004, 9:20]
NEC Is King Of The Supercomputers
News The research group on Thursday detailed its IDC Balanced Rating for rating computers and computing clusters in four separate categories. While the published list has the top 50 computers in each of four categories -- which are based around the size...
[May 17, 2002, 11:07]
Linux Supercomputer To Simulate Space For NASA
News But a number of companies have been assembling powerful computers by linking machines that use chips from Intel and the Linux open-source operating system. SGI historically built computers using its MIPS processor and Irix version of the Unix...
[July 28, 2004, 9:05]
Researchers, Literally, Catch Some Rays
News I think it puts us considerably forward in our schedule in building more powerful quantum computers and the quantum Internet. It would be irresponsible to speculate when we could have even more powerful quantum computers based on these developments...
[January 22, 2001, 8:33]
Intel Sees Moore's Law Wall Ahead
News Under Moore's Law, chipmakers can double the number of transistors on a given chip every two years, an exponential growth pattern that has allowed computers to get both cheaper and more powerful at the same time.
[December 2, 2003, 14:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog And the very biggest computers in the world are made not from the most powerful chips, but from those that are sufficiently powerful and sufficiently cheap: the most interesting and important speculative tools we have are being driven forward by...
[March 3, 2006, 17:00]
Tiny Pipes Deliver The Big Chill
News A researcher at Sandia National Laboratories says he has created technology to disperse the heat generated within laptop computers more efficiently than today's cooling systems. This development could lead to smaller and more efficient notebook...
[January 23, 2003, 9:26]
Compaq Ambitions Heighten With The Himalaya
News But with ZLE, Compaq can sell computers and services to more mainstream customers such as retail giant Target. But Compaq has come up with a way to make the Himalaya line appeal to more customers and make other Compaq computers more like the Tandem...
[May 10, 2001, 14:00]
C# Gains Support
News Sun asserts that C# is a hook planted in desktop Windows, where Microsoft is dominant, that tows Microsoft into areas where it's not as powerful -- namely, software for higher-end networked server computers where Sun is powerful.
[October 11, 2002, 14:08]
CeBIT 98: Gerstner Keynote P1 - Deep Computing
News In the pharmaceutical industry, the ability to simulate the interaction of chemicals and do it with computers rather than test tubes and petri dishes, can speed up by years the discovery and testing of new pharmaceuticals.
[March 19, 1998, 16:06]
