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Start-up software harnesses processing power
News More and more, new computers are packed with processing engines. After that will come support for Nvidia graphics chips and the Cell processor, which combines a main processing core with eight special-purpose calculation engines.
[September 18, 2006, 9:45]
What's the best way to increase processing power?
News Just like death and taxes, one thing we can count on is that tomorrow's operating systems and applications will require more processing power than today's. Most IT professionals who have been in the business for any length of time are intimately...
[August 2, 2006, 16:40]
Laser-Based Security System Relies on VersaLogic for Processing Power in Extreme Weather Conditions
White Papers The Vumii Discoverii security platform is used in border security systems, airports, ports, waterways and nuclear power plants around the world. Effective nighttime security is a critical deterrent to crime and terrorist activity around the world.
[April 30, 2009, 1:19]
Using Efficient Data Storage and Processing Techniques to Reduce Power Consumption
White Papers The Dynamic strategy for achieving better efficiency is simple: reduce the number of machines, reduce the number of disks, and therefore reduce the network's energy consumption. There is no reason to suffer a performance reduction to achieve these...
[July 6, 2007, 1:00]
Keeping IT Systems Healthy From the Data Center to the Desktop
White Papers Gwinnett Medical Center wanted to increase processing capabilities to keep up with rapid growth while staying within data center space and power limits and reduce PC downtime for doctors, nurses, and other clinicians throughout Gwinnett Medical...
[January 1, 2009, 0:00]
IBM offers supercomputers for hire
News IBM has added its Blue Gene/L supercomputer as a new option for a programme that lets customers rent processing power, the company is expected to announce on Friday. The program is designed to accommodate customers whose processing needs fluctuate...
[March 11, 2005, 8:10]
Xbox promises power with 733 Pentium III
News The company recently decided to increase processing power inside the Xbox from 600MHz after consultation with its Xbox advisory board. It will have so much more processing power than any other console on the market.
[September 5, 2000, 12:16]
Linux tool turns your office into a supercomputer
News An Australian security firm is about to launch a clustered Linux distribution that aims to utilise the unused nightly processing power of desktop PCs. In his last position as Internet and networking security officer at Macquarie University, Latter...
[April 7, 2005, 10:05]
Towards Disk-Level Malware Detection
White Papers Disk drive capabilities and processing power are steadily increasing, and this power gives them the possibility of using disks as data processing devices rather than merely for data transfers. Using the extra processing power available on modern...
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
DonateBot
Downloads In exchange for your unused CPU processing power, you will give to the charity of your choice. DonateBot lets you share this unused processing power with organizations that need to solve complicated problems, such as analyzing the galaxies or...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
DonateBot
Downloads In exchange for your unused CPU processing power, you will give to the charity of your choice. DonateBot lets you share this unused processing power with organizations that need to solve complicated problems, such as analyzing the galaxies or...
[February 17, 2009, 14:08]
Sun has its head in the clouds
Leader Sun has a laudable vision of the future of utility computing, where organisations with extra processing power can sell it back to a computing grid in the same manner that homes with solar panels can sell power back to the electrical power grid.
[September 22, 2004, 12:25]
IBM rents out supercomputer brawn
News IBM has begun a new programme to rent out processing power on its own supercomputers, signing up a petrochemical company as a first customer. Using the IBM computers also lets PGS introduce new data-processing services that require much more...
[January 9, 2003, 8:10]
New insulator strengthens future of Moore's Law
News Computer manufacturers are in a constant battle to keep pace with Moore's Law -- which states that processing power will double every 18 months. The upshot of this is that chip manufacturers will be able to keep cramming more transistors on a chip...
[January 5, 2004, 7:55]
Big Blue extends Deep into business arena
News The new supercomputer is an example of IBM's effort to commercialise Deep Computing, which is the capacity to tie together unprecedented computer processing power and advanced software and algorithms to solve complex problems and derive meaning...
[February 2, 1999, 16:14]
The thousand-fold game of leapfrog
Leader Back in the early 1980s, technologists sighed over "3M" computers — workstations that combined a megabyte of memory, a megapixel display and a megaflop of processing power. More prosaically, the virtual computer that the distributed computing...
[July 26, 2005, 15:45]
UK supercomputing push gets Microsoft backing
News High-performance computing is currently expensive because of the high costs associated with processing power and custom-built applications. Microsoft is also promoting faster computing speeds using 64-bit processing and virtualisation technologies...
[November 16, 2005, 9:20]
A Practical Application for Grid Computing
White Papers Storage grids were developed to supply the enormous amounts of data that such processing power was capable of producing and consuming. Grids today appear mostly in High Performance Computing (HPC) environments, where hundreds of inexpensive compute...
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
IBM and Google team up on cluster computing
News The data centres will allow a larger number of students and programmers to have access and processing power for writing software code involving massive amounts of data over the internet. The method can be used to improve efficiency for common tasks...
[October 8, 2007, 16:39]
Sun signs up utility partner
News Under the deal, set to be announced on Wednesday, SchlumbergerSema plans to offer outsourcing services that allow corporate customers to purchase server-processing power on a per-usage basis. Sun's utility computing strategy revolves around its N1...
[October 1, 2003, 10:05]
