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Intel Turns to Light Beams to Speed p Supercomputers
Intel has developed a technology that uses optical cables and light pulses to move data in supercomputers.
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Researchers Push Supercomputing's Bleeding Edge With Diverse Applications
One of five finalists will be awarded ACM's Gordon Bell Prize today at the SC14 high-performance computing conference in New Orleans.
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IBM Shares Plans For Supercomputing Future
IBM is developing a new supercomputing architecture to boost data processing at the storage, memory, and input/output levels.
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Mozilla Woos Programmers With Plans for a Webdev Browser
On Monday, the Mozilla Foundation will launch a version of its Firefox browser that will enable developers to build Web pages and applications.
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Ask Watson or Siri: Artificial Intelligence Is as Elusive as Ever
Scientists are no closer to achieving an overall general artificial intelligence, in the sense that a computer can behave like a human.
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Wi-Fi Group Acts to Simplify Peer-to-Peer Video, Printing and Other Tasks
The Wi-Fi Alliance has unveiled four sets of mechanisms for carrying out certain tasks over Wi-Fi Direct.
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Harvard nleashes a Swarm of Self-Organizing Robots
Harvard University researchers have developed a method enabling thousands of robots to coordinate their actions so they can complete a single task.
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IBM Spending $3 Billion to Rethink Decades-Old Computer Design
IBM plans to spend $3 billion over the next five years to research and develop new fundamental computing technologies, focusing specifically on the possibilities...
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IBM Wants to Make its Watson Supercomputer as Small as a Pizza Box
IBM researchers are developing handheld computers with the power of today's supercomputers.
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Google Agitates For a Revolution in Web Development
Google company engineers say Web Components, a World Wide Web Consortium standard designed to help organize complex Web pages, will "change everything."
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Internet Traffic Congestion Real, But Sporadic, Study Says
A new study suggests Internet congestion can be a problem, but it is often intermittent and temporary.
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Php Keepers Plot Radical Revision of the Language
PHP core developer Dmitry Stogov recently started a new branch of the language called PHP Next Generation.
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IBM and Fujifilm Show Super Dense Storage Tape For Big Data Work
Researchers at IBM and Fujifilm are developing a magnetic tape prototype that can store 85.9 billion bits of data per square inch.
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Faster Computer Performance Targeted By Memory Consortium
The Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium has proposed a faster and more power-efficient specification for its emerging Hybrid Memory Cube memory technology.
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China Trounces .s. in Top500 Supercomputer Race
China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer has overtaken the U.S.'s Titan system as the world's most powerful computer, according to the latest Top500 List, a twice-yearly...
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New Spec Tool to Id Most Energy-Efficient Servers
A new toolkit can help guide the selection of the most energy-efficient server to meet specific needs.
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Google Publishes Zopfli as Open Source Compression Algorithm to Speed p Web Downloads
A new general purpose data compression library from Google can be used to accelerate Web downloads.
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Researchers Develop Featherweight Chips That Dissolve in Water
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers have developed integrated circuits that can stick to the skin and in some cases dissolve in water when they...
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Supercomputers Face Growing Resilience Problems
North Carolina State University researchers have developed software that runs in conjunction with the Message Passing Interface, a library for splitting applications...
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