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The 80's supercomputer that's sitting in your lap

By now we're all used to the idea that each generation of CPU is faster and does more than the last, but just how fast? The computer you're probably using to read this blog on is faster than an 80's supercomputer. by John Sheesley

Tags: Desktop, Supercomputer, Cray Inc., CPU, Supercomputers 80, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Sheesley

Blog posts 2008-10-13

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How supercomputers still influence programming

Supercomputers and programmingAre there ideas from supercomputing in how you do things today? If so, in what way?J.JaRE: How supercomputers still influence programmingOne area where we have forgotten the past is in code efficiency. In the 70's and 80's I worked for ICL the UK IT company and we...

Tags: supercomputer, INTERESTING ARTICLE, programming, hardware

Discussion threads 2008-10-29

The 80's supercomputer that's sitting in your lap

In 1988, the fastest computer on the planet could just barely break the Gigaflop barrier. The Cray Y-MP would go 2.3 Gigaflops if you bought the 8 CPU version and ran it flat out - all for $20 million dollars.Today, a $700 laptop is 5 times as fast as I...

Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, laptop computer, supercomputer, desktop

Discussion threads 2008-10-13

M0n0wall and Soekris embedded firewall and VPN

As part of my consulting practice I am often asked to helpbusinesses figure out ways to solve interesting remote access problems:everything from telecommuting and remote office applications, through firewallsfor co-location facilities or between businesses where there is some datasharing application that needs a secure, dedicated point-to-point network.As one can imagine,...

Tags: David H.M. Spector, firewall, hardware, Support, Unix, VPN

Technical articles 2006-10-06

The secret of the Universe - the "void", measuring infinity

The secret of the Universe - the "void", measuring infinityResearchers who have spent years analyzing data from the LEP accelerator at the CERN nuclear physics lab near Geneva, Switzerland say that the elusive Higgs boson, which is central to the theory on which physicists base their whole understanding of matter,...

Tags: Black Panther, LEP, off-topic, particle, Peter Higgs, there is no way as yet to measure infinity!

Discussion threads 2005-05-24

Outsourcing: The next technology battlefields

By Mike Ricciuti ...

Tags: microwave, Percy Spencer, outsourcing

Technical articles 2004-05-13

HP takes aim at Cisco in switch market

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Tags: Network technology, NETWORKING, Hewlett-Packard ProCurve Networking division, Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Cisco Systems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., 10-Gigabit Ethernet

Technical articles 2004-11-02

AMD works to chill out Opteron

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Tags: Processors, AMD PowerNow feature, AMD PowerNow, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., AMD Opteron, processor, server

Technical articles 2004-12-06

Cost, advancing tools foster Linux clustering choice

Learn the benefits and challenges one organization faced when building a massive Linux cluster.When Jehangir Athwal and his colleagues wanted a system to do the heavy lifting at their bioscience software company, they were interested in a supercomputer system. But sticker price shock turned the IT professionals in a different...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, tool, Grant Gross, Linux, Linux cluster, supercomputer, clustering, LION Bioscience

Technical articles 2002-11-04