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The Quantum Chromodynamics Parallel Computing on the Cell (QPACE) is a German research supercomputer used in elementary particle physics simulations, mostly aimed at research in the area of quantum chromodynamics (QCD, which describes, for instance, how protons are composed of quarks and gluons). The system is a four... |
21 November 2009
04:59 GMT |
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Altis Semiconductor is a joint venture between IBM and Infineon, which manufactures semiconductors based solely on the less advanced 130nm process. The company currently doesn't have many clients, nor the manufacturing rights or equipment needed to produce better tech. Nevertheless, its two owners are negotiatin... |
20 November 2009
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Despite the many apocalyptic ideas and films that arose from the idea of machines capable of human-like reasoning, humanity is still doing its best to create a computer capable of thinking for itself. Despite the fact that a self-conscious machinery is not even remotely feasible (yet) with our current level of techno... |
19 November 2009
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Following its OEM agreement with TMS, NextIO extended the reach of its advanced I/O technology to another world-famous hardware manufacturer, IBM. Set to provide IBM iDataPlex customers with reconfigurable and on-demand GPU computing capabilities, this collaboration, announced at the Supercomputing 2009 show in Portl... |
19 November 2009
04:13 GMT |
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The IBM-native Lotus Symphony line of office apps will be offered in its portable version on NSEC products, such as the successful Keepod, the slimmest USB device in the world. IBM, VMWare and NSEC made this announcement on Tuesday, November 19, 2009, through an official press release by IBM.This means that users wil... |
18 November 2009
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IBM isn't exactly renowned for its swiftness and flexibility, but it's making a big move into the “cloud” market with several products. Now it's revealing a new product, which it bills as a cloud service, though Big Blue's definition of the “cloud” is as vague as everyone ... |
16 November 2009
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Following its acquisition of SPCC and business analytics from RedPill, IBM proudly introduced the allegedly “largest private cloud computing environment for business analytics in the world.” This private cloud is supposed to have more than a petabyte of information (1,000 terabytes or 1,000,000 gygabytes)... |
16 November 2009
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Microsoft follows Google in the world’s Top 50 most attractive employers put together by Universum. The first global index of employer attractiveness has Google as THE company to work for on both the Global Top 50 Business and the Global Top 50 Engineering. Microsoft is only third on the Global Top 50 Business... |
2 November 2009
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Future nanodevices will be structures that are extremely small, and that will play a huge host of roles, both in the human body and in the industry. However, in order to make them operational, very small wires, called nanowires, are needed. These structures are made from such materials as gold, silver or, in some... |
30 October 2009
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IBM and Canonical launched yesterday a software bundle targeted at companies that packs productivity applications along with underlying system infrastructure in a well-integrated product. For it the two software creators have stacked the IBM Client for Smart Work, a collaboration and productivity package that was rel... |
22 October 2009
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Since it was first discovered in the United Kingdom, back in 2004, the carbon compound graphene has been used for a wide variety of applications, from creating amazingly fast transistors to producing very dense memory chips. Now, with research in these areas well underway, physicists are beginning to explore its uses... |
13 October 2009
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Oracle's rhetoric about its commitment to Sun's hardware business just went up a couple of notches as CEO Larry Ellison went all guns blazing against IBM at this year's Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. The timing of this new-found enthusiasm for hardware may be questionable but the software giant is ... |
12 October 2009
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It's a well-known fact that portable computer systems have become the main choice for computer users, a fact that has affected the desktop PC segment. However, desktop PCs are still a necessity for many, which is why companies such as Devon IT are continuously updating their product portfolios with new solutions... |
9 October 2009
02:37 GMT |
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Since genetic sequencing was first achieved, experts working in this field have been trying to make the process faster, cheaper and more accurate. Picking up on this trend, engineers at IBM are currently working on a new type of microchips that would enable the creation of sensors capable of reading a DNA molecule�... |
6 October 2009
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Google may not be an established name in the business services market but the inroads it's making have some of the more established players noticing. IBM, one of the biggest names in enterprise software, is launching a new product for its Lotus suite that will compete with Google Apps at least when it comes to p... |
2 October 2009
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Cloud computing has a major disadvantage because inside the cloud itself, there are a lot of software and hardware products that normally have no business in interacting with each other. This problem has determined a group of major industry companies to unite in developing a common API that can access all major cloud... |
2 October 2009
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IBM, one of the world's leading suppliers of high-end supercomputers, has announced today that President Obama has recognized the company's Blue Gene family of supercomputers with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, for the breakthroughs in science, energy efficiency and analytics. The National... |
18 September 2009
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Teaming up with different partners from Europe, IBM has launched for the public a new search engine that uses brand new image and video searching techniques. The algorithm scans every image uploaded on the web for color schemes, color structure, color layout, shape edges, patterns and texture, besides the classic tag... |
12 September 2009
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IBM has launched a new tool called Enterprise Generation Language Community Edition (EGL CE) that will help web-developers around the globe in writing web 2.0 applications. Geared toward web developing, the new tool will enable programmers to write complex interfaces or complete applications just by using one languag... |
10 September 2009
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Armonk, New York-based IBM has recently unveiled details on its much-anticipated Power7 chip for high-performance server systems, which is expected to power upcoming high-end machines. Details on the new processor have been revealed at the Hot Chips 09 Symposium in Sheraton, Palo Alto, by the company's William S... |
27 August 2009
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In their quest for new technologies that can provide chip manufacturers with new ways to improve the performance and features of their next-generation products, scientists at IBM have recently announced that they are experimenting with using DNA molecules in an attempt to create tiny circuits that could be at the bas... |
17 August 2009
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Trafficmaster, a leader in the field of intelligent driving, and IBM have joined forces to analyze driver data in a more comprehensive manner to help motorists spend less time when in traffic. The SmartNav enhanced route-planning tool of Trafficmaster integrates a dynamic probe collection system that is powered by IB... |
14 August 2009
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IBM has announced that it will acquire Chicago-based SPSS, a software company specializing in predictive analytics solutions. The deal is a cash-only transaction putting the per-share price of SPSS stock at $50, 42 percent over the closing trading price of $35.09 last night, which sets a $1.2-billion valuation fo... |
28 July 2009
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Microsoft indicated that it was continuously eroding IBM's market unified communications share, and that customers dumping the hardware giant were in the millions. The Redmond company pointed out that almost five million people switched from IBM Lotus Notes and Domino to Exchange and SharePoint in the last year ... |
27 July 2009
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Sunnyvale, California-based Globalfoundries, Advanced Micro Devices' spinoff, will announce this Friday that it is ready to enter the market, in a head-to-head competition with the world's largest chipmakers. The company will use the opportunity created by the groundbreaking ceremony held this Friday at Mal... |
20 July 2009
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Another technology giant announced its earnings for the second quarter after Google reported a modest growth, and that is IBM, which showed ‘above expectations’ results for Q2 and optimistically updated its forecast for 2009. International Business Machines boasted a $3.1 billion net income for Q2 2009, u... |
17 July 2009
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Customers running System Center Configuration Manager 2007 on top of hardware infrastructures from specific original equipment manufacturers will be able to leverage the results of Microsoft's efforts to integrate OEM deployment customizations into the product. In this regard, Jeff Wettlaufer, Sr. Technical Prod... |
3 July 2009
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According to an updated list of the world's Top 500 fastest computer systems, IBM's powerful Roadrunner supercomputer, installed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, has managed to keep the number-one spot for the second year in a row. The said system was closely followed by Cray's Jaguar supercomput... |
24 June 2009
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IBM has just announced a new solution designed to help business customers reduce their costs by turning to the company's latest version of Lotus Symphony, a productivity suite designed as an alternative to Microsoft's Office. According to IBM, customers could save up to hundreds of dollars on each of their ... |
19 June 2009
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NEC and Toshiba have recently announced the expansion of their technology agreements with IBM to participate in the development of a new 28nm high-k metal gate (HKMG), a low-power chip technology focused on consumer products. Both companies are part of the IBM alliance for the development of a 28nm bulk complementary... |
18 June 2009
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The revenue reports for the second quarter of fiscal year 2009, ending in December 2008, were the first indication that Microsoft was starting to feel the impact of the global financial crisis. Still, despite the economic downturn settling in, the Redmond company managed a growth almost double compared to the evoluti... |
17 June 2009
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IBM is launching a series of new cloud computing-related products and services aimed at enterprises, starting with Smart Business and IBM CloudBurst. The company claims it has learned from its previous attempts and the new move would give a much more focused experience with products built for very specific computing ... |
16 June 2009
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Measuring the electric charge on single atoms is not something that hasn't been done before, but now researchers from IBM's Zürich research laboratory have improved on their previous work, and shown that atomic force microscopes (AFM) can successfully replace scanning tunneling microscopes (STM) in doi... |
15 June 2009
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IBM is one of the biggest names in the high-performance server market and the Armonk, New York-based company continues to pave its way to new performance breakthroughs as it announced a new performance record for its recently released EXP12S System Storage, featuring Solid State Drive Technology. According to the com... |
9 June 2009
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IBM has recently announced that it is going to provide solid-state drives as an added option to the company's line of Power System servers, as part of a plan to push SSDs as a solution for its series of server lines. In addition to the announcement about the new SSD option for its Power System line of servers, I... |
22 May 2009
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) will start making thousands of processor hours available to open, unclassified research, at two new supercomputer facilities, starting from 2010. The two machines that will accept independent studies will be Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL) Cray XT system “Jaguar,&rd... |
4 May 2009
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Apple's Executive Profiles page now lists Mark Papermaster as one of the company's execs, following a six-month-long wait. The ex-IBM chip expert is believed to have been sought out for hiring in the purpose of creating a portable device bigger than the iPhone, but smaller than the MacBook. Last year, Apple... |
28 April 2009
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IBM and leading semiconductor manufacturers Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd., GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Infineon Technologies, Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd., and STMicroelectronics have jointly announced their plans to develop a 28nm high-k metal gate (HKMG), low-power CMOS process technology. The move is meant to ... |
17 April 2009
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According to Slava Rotkin, an assistant professor of physics at the Lehigh University, modern-day laptops are able to generate heat much faster than a dedicated hotplate, and also at levels comparable to a very small nuclear reactor. This happens because of the ever-increasing numbers of semiconductor electronic circ... |
13 April 2009
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In November 2008, Apple was happily announcing that ex-IBM chip design expert, Mark Papermaster, had joined the company as Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering. The announcement came after IBM's ex Blade server guru had settled legally with IBM, on the terms of his leaving the company."Mark is a... |
13 April 2009
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According to the latest details, IBM could back away from the negations it was reportedly undergoing with the board of directors at Sun Microsystems. Apparently, Sun's board rejected the formal offer delivered by IBM on Saturday, also sending a notice that the company didn't want to continue its exclusive n... |
6 April 2009
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IBM will reportedly sell a suite of Web-based applications, including instant messaging, contact management and file sharing programs for businesses. This is part of the company's biggest effort in trying to sell software as a service, a move that has been announced on Wednesday and which has put IBM in a direct... |
2 April 2009
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IBM has just announced a new software application, developed in collaboration with search giant Google and the Continua Health Alliance, which will enable personal medical devices used for patient monitoring, screening and routing evaluation to stream data results into the patient's Google Health Account, or per... |
5 February 2009
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IBM has just announced that it has signed an agreement that will enable it to build its next-generation BlueGene supercomputers, for the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). IBM is expected to deliver two systems, one of which will be dubbed Sequoia, will provide a performance... |
4 February 2009
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According to a recent article on the Associated Press, IBM is said to have cut thousands of jobs, without the company officially announcing any specific and official details. The layoffs are reported to be part of the company's ongoing plan to save costs amid the current low global economy.IBM is said to have cu... |
28 January 2009
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Research In Motion and IBM announced recently the introduction of new Lotus collaboration features and developer tools for the BlackBerry platform, meant to facilitate the access to live expertise and collective intelligence via BlackBerry handsets. Through the new features, users will be able to find expertise form ... |
21 January 2009
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After IBM indicated that it was eroding Microsoft's market share on the unified communications and collaboration software market the past week, the Redmond company came out gunning in an attempt to set the record straight. The software giant disputed claims that IBM's solutions were stealing business users ... |
19 January 2009
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Online games are starting to become one of the most popular types of entertainment out there. We all play or have played various online titles like MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) in order to relax and enjoy ourselves, but it seems that some people become very addicted to them and start negl... |
16 January 2009
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Working in collaboration with the Stanford University Center for Probing the Nanoscale, experts at IBM Research developed a new way of producing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), about 100 million times finer than existing similar techniques. According to the team that worked on the project, their accomplishment pave... |
14 January 2009
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A new book, written by David Shippy and Mickie Phipps, both leading figures involved in the development of the Cell processor, is claiming that the development of the processor powering the PlayStation 3 gaming console from Sony ended up providing Microsoft, the producer of the Xbox 360, with valuable technology.Sony... |
6 January 2009
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