Stories by: Patrick Thibodeau

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    Gore says supercomputing can be killer app in climate change 20/11/2009 09:19:00

    PORTLAND, Ore. -- Former Vice President Al Gore today told an audience of scientists, programmers and system builders at the SC09 conference here that their work is essential in the effort to avoid global catastrophe caused by climate change.
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    Supercomputers with 100 million cores coming by 2018 16/11/2009 23:19:00

    There is a race to make supercomputers as powerful as possible to solve some of the world's most important problems, including climate change, the need for ultra-long-life batteries for cars, operating fusion reactors with plasma that reaches 150 million degrees Celsius and creating bio-fuels from weeds and not corn.
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    Analysis: Intel, AMD end a bitter business and technical battle 13/11/2009 07:56:00

    The settlement reached today by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) and Intel may not simply resolve some of the business issues the two companies have had; it might even encourage them to cooperate on some shared technical issues, say analysts. In fact, Intel's $1.25 billion payment to AMD may, in the end, turn out to be only a small part of what the accord delivers.
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    Big IT is back, say HP, IBM, Oracle, EMC, Cisco 04/11/2009 16:10:00

    A certain truth about the big IT vendors is they want to sell as much as possible to any one customer and now, with virtualization, cloud computing and very tight IT budgets, they believe they have an opening.
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    IT employment may be stabilizing after loss of 250,000 jobs 30/10/2009 22:08:00

    The apparent turn in the U.S. economy may have put the brakes on the IT job loss freefall, according to some new data.
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    VMware's Fusion 3.0 release leads to confusion 29/10/2009 22:15:00

    VMware Inc. is having trouble getting VMware Fusion 3.0 out its download door and is getting customer complaints about timeouts and licensing problems.
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    HP's CEO: Some clouds not ready for prime time 21/10/2009 11:15:00

    Hewlett-Packard's CEO, Mark Hurd, is raising issues with cloud computing, on everything from its name to its ability to offer a secure environment.
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    Gartner's top 10 technologies include the cloud, mobile apps 21/10/2009 06:35:00

    The top strategic technology in Gartner Inc.'s annual top 10 list was cloud computing, but the one that may have been of the most interest to Bill Piatt, the CIO of the International Finance Corp., was last on the list, and that's mobile applications.
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    Top 10 IT management trends for the next five years 20/10/2009 09:52:00

    The top trends affecting technology infrastructure over the next five years can be summed up as largely a list representing where IT and users are battling for control over technology.
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    CIA Building Secure Cloud-based System 19/10/2009 21:34:00

    One of the U.S. government's strongest advocates for cloud computing is also one of its most secretive operations: the Central Intelligence Agency.
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    IBM plans big hardware upgrade next year 17/10/2009 07:21:00

    IBM disclosed the plans at a time when server sales among all vendors have taken a bruising during the economic downturn, and IBM is no exception. In a third quarter earnings call yesterday, said Mark Loughridge, IBM's chief financial officer, said that the company's third quarter mainframe revenue declined by 26 per cent from the year-earlier period.
 
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