processing in photos
Photos: The world's fastest supercomputers revealed
Photo Able to slice through quadrillion tasks every second, the searing performance of US supercomputers once again monopolised a list of the world's processing powerhouses. The colossi of computing took their places on the... [17 Nov 2008]
Photos: Brain of Britain
Photo The processing powerhouse at the heart of the High Performance Computing Centre of Excellence has about four million megabytes of memory and 256 standard compute nodes containing 2,048 Intel Xeon 3GHz cores. [07 Nov 2008]
Photos: The Cern computers cracking the Big Bang
Photo The computer centre will only provide about 20 per cent of the processing power used to examine the LHC data, with the rest coming from the LHC Computing Grid, a dedicated network of more than 100,000 processors. [06 Oct 2008]
Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab
Photo It is rated for 18 teraflops of processing power. This photo story is a peek into one of the world's great supercomputer labs housed inside the US's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a leading research institution and the... [14 Jul 2008]
Photos: Robots, lasers, action
Photo Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Emory University School of Medicine believe they have found the answer to the difficulties that robots have in processing the imperfections of the real world... [10 Apr 2008]
Photos: Red Bull Racing's F1 factory
Photo CFD requires huge amounts of processing power which Red Bull is able to boost through grid computing. This is the headquarters of Red Bull Technology in Milton Keynes where the cars for the Red Bull Racing and Scuderia... [10 Mar 2008]
Photos: Heathrow bags RFID tech to end lost luggage
Photo Heathrow expects to keep running both systems side-by-side to allow processing of both barcodes and RFID chips. Heathrow Terminal 3 and Emirates airlines are running a six-month trial of tagging luggage with RFID chips... [14 Feb 2008]
Photos: BlackBerrys on the beat
Photo This reduces the amount of time spent in the station processing paperwork and increases their visibility. Half of all the UK police forces now carry BlackBerry smart phones when on the beat, as seen here. [08 Feb 2008]
Photos: Accenture gets touchy feely with its interactive wall
Photo The interactive wall in Chicago's O'Hare Airport (seen here) is made out of nine rear projection high resolution DLP (digital light processing) screens. There were shades of sci-fi film Minority Report as Accenture... [01 Feb 2008]
Photos: The super-brain behind the particle smasher
Photo After initial processing the data is then churned out to 11 tier-one data centres around the world. To make sense of all this information, Cern - the European centre for particle physics near Geneva which is building the... [21 May 2007]
Photos: PDAs in space
Photo Using PDAs as a voice or speech processing platform to get astronauts chatting to each other and the ISS' computer systems is another - less frightening - application under consideration at ESA. Astronauts living on the... [29 Jan 2007]
Photos: Britain's best-loved computer turns 50
Photo Ernie 3 also need more processing power to keep up with the growth in the number of bonds, which increased from a nine-number identifier to a 10, with an 11-digit identifier soon to follow. This year sees the 50th... [02 Nov 2006]
Photos: The tech driving Renault Formula 1
Photo The Lombardi software uses a web-based dashboard to highlight and prioritise faults for the engineering team by processing telemetry data from the cars and data that has been manually inputted by engineers. [20 Sep 2006]
Photos: Future tech from HP boffins
Photo The data is stored on a processing unit worn around the waist that can store three hours of footage on its two 20GB disk drives. The camera is continuously recording footage but the user presses a button on the... [12 Apr 2006]
Photos: Inside Ricoh's 'Green Centre'
Photo Ricoh's Green Centre near Wellingborough in Northampton is a 43,000 square foot facility dedicated to processing IT kit, principally copiers, and either returning them back into the field as a reconditioned unit or... [16 Mar 2006]
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