Stories about: Amdahl

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    Android guru calms source code delay fears 08/04/2011 00:20:00

    Google's delay in publishing the source code to Android 3.0 'Honeycomb' beyond a handful of large companies is temporary and does not represent a sudden change in its openness, project guru Andy Rubin has said.
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    Hopkins to build data analysis super machine 04/11/2010 01:09:00

    Disregarding the supercomputing community's insatiable thirst for FLOPS (floating point operations per second), the Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University is configuring its new machine to achieve the maximum number of IOPS (I/O operations per second) instead.
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    IBM faces DOJ antitrust inquiry on mainframes 09/10/2009 03:16:00

    IBM is facing an antitrust inquiry from the U.S. Department of Justice for recent actions the company has taken in the mainframe computer market, according to the trade group that filed the complaint.
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    IBM faces DOJ antitrust inquiry on mainframes 09/10/2009 01:36:00

    IBM is facing an antitrust inquiry from the U.S. Department of Justice for recent actions the company has taken in the mainframe computer market, according to the trade group that filed the complaint.
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    IBM could face mainframe antitrust investigation in Europe 21/01/2009 08:06:00

    Florida mainframe manufacturer T3 Technologies has filed a formal complaint against IBM with the European Union's antitrust authority, it said Tuesday. In its complaint, T3 accuses IBM of refusing to sell its mainframe operating system to customers wanting to run it on computers made by T3.
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    Intel CTO: Computing's future in multicore machines 21/11/2007 11:35:20

    For much of his 34 years at Intel, Justin R. Rattner has been a pioneer in parallel and distributed processing. His early ideas didn't catch on in the market, but the time has come for them now, he recently told Computerworld's Gary Anthes.
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    Happy birthday, Sputnik! (Thanks for the Internet) 02/10/2007 06:00:11

    Quick, what's the most influential piece of hardware from the early days of computing? The IBM 360 mainframe? The DEC PDP-1 minicomputer? Maybe earlier computers such as Binac, ENIAC or Univac? Or, going way back to the 1800s, is it the Babbage Difference Engine?
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    Understanding delta compression 20/02/2007 15:09:50

    While WAN-compression solutions have been around for years, new compression advances have resulted in previously unheard of gains in bandwidth savings. Delta compression, commonly referred to as segment caching or byte caching, leverages pattern-matching techniques and large persistent dictionaries to dramatically reduce the amount of data sent across the WAN.
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    University builds cluster in a day; fails to make list 06/04/2004 08:01:30

    Students and staff at the University of San Francisco failed in their attempt last Saturday to build a supercomputer that would run a benchmark fast enough to secure it a place in the Top 500 list of supercomputers.
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    Intel's pain is your gain 27/03/1998 21:49:14

    Intel's pain is your gain
 
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