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Berkeley Lab Team Wins Special ACM Gordon Bell Prize For Algorithm Innovation

ACM's Gordon Bell Prize for special achievement in high performance computing has been won by a team of researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence...

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Multi-Core and Parallel Programming: Is the Sky Falling?

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professor Marc Snir acknowledges that multicore parallelism is difficult, and this difficulty can give rise to divergent...

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IBM Tries to Bring Brain Power to Computers

IBM Research has been working on a project to give computers the same processing capabilities as the human brain. The goal is to integrate brain-related senses...

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Supercomputers Break Petaflop Barrier, Transforming Science

The surpassing of petaflop speeds by a new breed of supercomputers could facilitate a profound scientific transformation by bringing simulation to the cutting edge...

It Salaries Take Tiny Leaps
From ACM TechNews

It Salaries Take Tiny Leaps

Salaries for information technology (IT) professionals have essentially stalled, reveals Computerworld's 22nd annual Salary Survey. The survey, based on responses...

User-Centric Services Provisioning in Wireless Environments
From Communications of the ACM

User-Centric Services Provisioning in Wireless Environments

To date, services provided for mobile users are still hard to build. Two main challenges need to be considered. The first...

A European Perspective of VoIP in Market Competition
From Communications of the ACM

A European Perspective of VoIP in Market Competition

The debate on the future of VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) is not new. For some time now this technological innovation has been considered one of main drivers...

Green Computing
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Green Computing

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