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The Storm worm is brewing
The Storm worm, which is harnessing zombie PCs and spewing spam across the Web, is estimated to have a computed strength varying from 15 to 50 million PCs (M&C). There's special reason to watch out for e-mail that arrives in your inbox: Storm worms have been reported...
Tags: PC, Processing Power, Trojan Horse, Zombie, Storm Worm, Spyware, Desktops, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hardware, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-10-31
(Images: Harnessing PS3 power for Folding@home)
Substantial Processing Power??I wouldnt think the PS3 would even come near a somewhat modern PC as far as processing power is concerned, unless the custom graphics chips are involved along with the CPU's.Frankly, I'm not impressed in the slightest with the PS3's performance even in games. Most games don't...
Tags: Desktops, Video cards, Processors, jnunamaker@..., PC, Sony PlayStation 3, console, graphics, processing power
Discussion threads 2007-03-19
Images: Harnessing PS3 power for Folding@home
PlayStation 3 users will soon be able to lend their consoles' processing power to a Stanford University research project focused on the nature of serious diseases.
Tags: Sony PlayStation 3, Stanford University, processing power, Sony Playstation, console
Image galleries 2007-03-15
Alienware Aurora m9700 high-performance notebook
The Aurora m9700 sports a 17" screen, dual graphics cards, and plenty of processing power.
Tags: Alienware, Alienware Aurora, graphics, high-performance, notebook, processing power, video card
Image galleries 2006-11-03
What's the best way to increase processing power?
Stop buying bloated software!!The functionity of GUIs has increased but not in line with it's desire for RAM and increase processing power.This is because "we" allow it to happen.Add a condition or two to your buying guidelines.If it requires more RAM or more resources, don't buy it?Dougit's all the gamers'...
Tags: Games, Memory, Word processors, RAM
Discussion threads 2006-09-12
What's the best way to increase processing power?
Processing power--seems you can never have too much of it. But what's the best and most scalable way to increase the processing power available to your vital applications without breaking the bank? Just like death and taxes, one thing we can count on is that tomorrow's operating systems...
Tags: Processors, Deb Shinder, LetÂ, processor, SMB Strategies Newsletter, Clustering, Processing Power, Distributed Computing, Computer, Distributed Processing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
Technical articles 2006-07-28
Distributed computing goes corporate
Everyone knows what distributed computing is, but few realize how some enterprises are reharnessing this resource to power critical projects and applications, and why tech leaders should be paying attention.Distributed computing, with its recent high-profile successes in the scientific community, is enjoying a revival of corporate interest as businesses and...
Tags: Network technology, Salvatore Salamone, distributed computing, processing power, computer
Technical articles 2002-04-09
How do you match job function and CPU speed?
Not everyone in your organization needs a 1.7 GHz Pentium 4, but some might. This article offers a few tips for matching job function with the right processor. Be sure to let us know how you determine who needs the most speed in your organization.With the ever-evolving speed of workstation...
Tags: CAD, Processors, PRODUCTIVITY, CPU, job, Microsoft Corp., Ed Engelking II A+, processor, processing power, workstation
Technical articles 2001-05-11
Grid Computing: Making Inroads Into Financial Services
Grid computing often combines powerful paradigms such as distributed computing, high-performance computing and disposable computing depending on the application of the technology and the scale of operations. Grids can effectively create a virtual supercomputer out of existing servers, workstations and even PCs to deliver processing power not only to a...
Tags: Financial Service, Processing Power, Grid Computing, IBM Corp., Network Technology, Utility Computing, It Management, Networking, It service Management
White papers
Connecting Descisys' TeraSolve With Microsoft Excel Using SimbaProvider SDK
One of Descisys' customers wished to connect Microsoft Excel with Descisys' TeraSolve data warehouse product. Descisys' MDX engine did not support the advanced functionality required by Excel or many other popular reporting tools. To enable interoperability with Excel, Descisys needed to build out its MDX capability for the standards-based ODBO...
Tags: Processing Power, Microsoft Corp., Simba Technologies, Descisys, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
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Total Power-Optimal Pipelining and Parallel Processing Under Process Variations in Nanometer Technology
This paper explores the effectiveness of the simultaneous application of pipelining and parallel processing as a total power static plus dynamic reduction technique in digital systems. Previous studies have been limited to either pipelining or parallel processing, but both techniques can be used together to reduce supply voltage at a...
Tags: Parallel Processing
White papers 2005-08-08
A Multi-Level WEB Based Parallel Processing System: A Hierarchical Volunteer Computing Approach
Over the past few years, a number of efforts have been exerted to build parallel processing systems that utilize the idle power of LAN's and PC's available in many homes and corporations. The main advantage of these approaches is that they provide cheap parallel processing environments for those who cannot...
Tags: Parallel Processing, Computing
White papers 2006-05-01
Interplay of Energy and Performance for Disk Arrays Running Transaction Processing Workloads
The growth of business enterprises and the emergence of the Internet as a medium for data processing has led to a proliferation of applications that are server-centric. The power dissipation of such servers has a major consequence not only on the costs and environmental concerns of power generation and delivery,...
Tags: Pennsylvania State University, Disk, Performance, Transaction Processing, Disk Array, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers
VirtualDub (zip)
VirtualDub is a video capture and processing utility licensed under the GNU General Public License GPL. It is designed to be a general utility that can trim and clean up video before exporting to tape or processing with another program. It does not possess the editing power of a general-purpose...
Tags: GPL, Video, Avery Lee, VirtualDub, Corporate Communications, Marketing
Software downloads 2007-12-14
TM ToolBox (zip)
Designed from the ground up to put the power of high level programming data tools in your hands. TM ToolBox combines an intuitive interface and a powerful processing engine in an easy to install and use package. Now fully multi-threaded and with multiple file processing support, complete your file processing...
Tags: Programming, Predictive Concepts, TM ToolBox, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
Software downloads 2007-11-27
Image-Processing System LSI for Digital Cameras Milbeaut M-4 Series MB91680
MB91680 is the first product from M-4 Series to use the latest 90nm technology and 4th generation color conversion algorithm to deliver high image quality at high speed. Full hardware processing using the 90nm technology dramatically increases the processing speed with only a very low power consumption. MB91680, the first...
Tags: Fujitsu Ltd., MB91680
White papers 2006-02-25
(Photos: Servers ride on new Opterons)
blades and x series serversThe high processing power in single chip is exciting. But what about the costs involved in cooling the systems and power consumptions. Is there any improvement in there.Yes, HP has intelligent power quotas for serversMost servers never go above 50 percent utilization. HP has management...
Tags: PhotoS, SERVERS, heat generation, blades, power supply, HP HAS, ssatishn@..., hardware, AMD Opteron, photograph, server
Discussion threads 2006-08-15
Technology Audit: Butler Group Evaluates Industry's First Network Attached Processing Solution
This Butler Group report describes the Azul Compute Appliance, the industry's first Network Attached Processing NAP solution that's purpose-built to meet the power and processing demands of computationally intensive and multi-threaded Java applications. The paper explains how Azul's Compute Appliances, which can be pooled to provide virtually unlimited processing capacity,...
Tags: Butler Group, Audit, Azul Systems, Network, Industry, Java, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
White papers
A Practical Application for Grid Computing
Grids today appear mostly in High Performance Computing HPC environments, where hundreds of inexpensive compute nodes link together to solve parallel processing problems that previously could only have been addressed by using supercomputers. Storage grids were developed to supply the enormous amounts of data that such processing power was capable...
Tags: Enterprise Management Associates Inc., Storage, Parallel Processing, Grid Computing, Computing
White papers 2007-06-01
Local processing v server-based applications
My firm is looking into taking all our 700+ users, located all over the UK, into a server-based application environment, using VPNs over the Internet to provide connectivity.To me, this seems a backwards step, as modern PCs have ample processing power for Word, Excel and Access, etc. I see a...
Tags: jim.wyse@..., server
Discussion threads 2007-10-12
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