parallel processing in news
IBM smashes the supercomputing petaflop
News By connecting tens of thousands of computing nodes, they can work together simultaneously in a parallel fashion, just in the way that the brain does. Neurons are very slow but they work in parallel to create significant computing capability. [11 Jun 2008]
Gazing into the technological future
News Developing hardware and software based around parallel processing Self-charging devices and real-time language translation are among technologies pinpointed by future gazers that will change the world. [14 Apr 2008]
UK's fastest supercomputer unveiled
News The facility will be operated by the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC). Hector - or High-End Computing Terascale Resource - can handle 63 trillion calculations per second, which is the equivalent processing power of 12,000 desktop systems... [15 Jan 2008]
Met Office unveils new supercomputers
News A Met Office spokesman said: "Until last Friday the two machines were run in parallel for a while. The NEC machines possess processing power of just under a teraflop, or a trillion calculations per second, with 927.6 million instructions per second... [21 Jun 2004]
Consumers protest over security of offshore data
News Bourne said the IC is aware of some large UK firms running parallel processing facilities with some data held back in the UK as a result of protests from customers. Companies should also do a proper audit of where the data goes and who is... [22 Mar 2004]
Unions threaten strikes over offshoring
News The investigation, which will address e-commerce, call centres, internet services, IT, and software development, in addition to other, non-IT related, back-office functions, is likely to run in parallel with a study commissioned by the DTI into... [09 Feb 2004]
How to get an £80,000 NEC supercomputer for free
News In the vector processor used by NEC's SX-6i, a calculation can be performed on 256 bits of data in parallel, making it ideal for big computational jobs such as climate research and fluid dynamics. It all stacks up to eight billion floating point... [25 Feb 2003]
IBM aims to get smart about artificial intelligence
News If we apply in parallel the techniques that different artificial intelligence schools have been proponents of, we will achieve a multiplicative reduction in error rates," Spector said. Automated language translation and natural language processing... [20 Jan 2003]
World's fastest computer comes to life
News Most US supercomputers use parallel processing - wiring lots of identical chips together to increase their power. The NEC machines use vectored processing - using specialised chips for different functions. [22 Apr 2002]
IBM upgrades OS/390
News These enhancements include the dynamic management of virtual private network keys through the Internet Key Exchange (IKE), improved management and administration of digital certificates used by both server applications and end users, higher... [25 Aug 1999]
Giga analyst joins Silicon.com's columnist line-up
News He has published articles and books on a wide range of IT subjects, ranging from chargeback architectures to parallel processing. Will Cappelli, vice president of Giga Information Group, has joined Silicon.com's line-up of top columnists. [04 Aug 1999]
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