Parallel Processing
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Cloud to power research number-crunching
News More academic institutions will look to the cloud for compute power at a lower price, to drive research efforts, says Singapore university professor.
Tags: Cloud computing, grid computing, SETI@Home, distributed computing, Hewlett-Packard Co., Cloud, Computer, Virtualization, Nanyang Technological University, Xen
Getting the green on 'green' PCs
News ZDNet Asia finds out from experts what companies should look out for when they evaluate "green" PCs, and what savings to expect from an energy-efficient machine.
Tags: Personal Computers, Green IT, IT budgeting, Budgeting/cost control, Business, Hewlett-Packard Co., International Data Corp., Power Supply, Asia-Pacific, computer
Are supercomputers just better liars?
Insight Supercomputers may be far more powerful than ordinary machines, but that does not make their predictions infallible, says expert.
Tags: Supercomputing, R&D, Models, computer, Consulting, Jones, supercomputer, high-performance computing, modeling, food
Do cloud computing and parallel processing lack use cases?
Techguide There are really no killer apps for cloud computing or parallel processing, and reasons why the two are not bigger trends than they should be, says industry watcher Justin James.
Tags: Business applications, Software engineering/development, Parallel Processing, Backup, CPU, Developer, Cloud Computing, Server, Use Case, multi-threading
Amazon launches Hadoop data-crunching service
News Customers can use MapReduce to pay by the sip as they do things like index the Web, mine data, and conduct financial analysis or bioinformatics research.
Tags: Cloud computing, Data mining & analysis, Apache Hadoop, Dana Gardner, Cloud computing, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Amazon.com Inc., API, software, job
10 tips to go from a beginner to intermediate developer
Techguide Having trouble finding tips for to take your developer career to the next level? Here are some suggestions on how to make that leap.
Tags: Personal development, Protocols and platforms, Language, Database, Search Engine, Developer, object-oriented, career, job, Perl
Google offers curriculum to China's top universities
Blogs At last week's 2007 Software Innovation Summit, Christophe Bisciglia from Google introduced to the attendees Google 101....
Tags: Servers, Web sites, Web servers, Web services
Sun bags first server-database appliance customer
News Philippine telco Smart Communications will use the Sun Fire X4500 with Greenplum's database to extract customer information in real time.
Tags: Servers, Storage, Open source
Intel: Optimize applications for multicore
News Chip giant is expected to release tools for writing parallel threads, which help applications take advantage of multicore machines.
Tags: Processors, Strategy
Can Microsoft win over enough developers?
Techguide Microsoft is trying very hard to be the cause and beneficiary of reflexivity, but only time will tell if it can create enough demand in the minds of developers.
Tags: Operating systems, Software engineering/development
How supercomputers still influence programming
Techguide Want to know what programmers may be doing 20 years from now? You should take a look at what supercomputers are doing today.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Supercomputing, Mainframe, Cray Inc., CPU, Computer, Programming, processor, supercomputer, industry
Apple eyeing Nvidia's CUDA technology?
News CUDA makes it easier for developers to exploit Nvidia's graphics chips, and Apple might be getting ready to formally welcome that technology into Mac OS X.
Tags: Processors, Apple Inc., NVidia Corp., Chip, Graphics, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, graphics chip, software, processor
Cost, advancing tools foster Linux clustering choice
Insight Low cost is always cited as the top reason that enterprises choose Linux clusters. But the promise of new, advanced management tools and scalability capabilities is also spurring increased interest and attention.
Hands on with Mono 2.2
Techguide If you are writing an application designed to work on many platforms, Mono is still an alternative but it may not be a simple matter of "recompile and deploy" in many cases.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Authoring, Microsoft Corp., C, system tray, C#, Authoring, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Visual Studio, Mono
How Oracle approaches the problem of identity management
Techguide Learn more about Oracle's latest identity management release, which includes centralized and delegated administration over user identities and access to services, provisioning of user services, and a federation component to manage external user identities.
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