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IBM Shares Plans For Supercomputing Future
IBM is developing a new supercomputing architecture to boost data processing at the storage, memory, and input/output levels.
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Mozilla Woos Programmers With Plans for a Webdev Browser
On Monday, the Mozilla Foundation will launch a version of its Firefox browser that will enable developers to build Web pages and applications.
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Harvard nleashes a Swarm of Self-Organizing Robots
Harvard University researchers have developed a method enabling thousands of robots to coordinate their actions so they can complete a single task.
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Energy Harvested From Body, Environment Could Power Wearables, IoT Devices
Low-power wearable devices may soon stop using batteries and start drawing energy generated by body heat and movement, as well as ambient energy from the environment...
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Google's Big-Data Tool, Mesa, Holds Petabytes of Data Across Multiple Servers
Google says its big-data architecture, Mesa, can store petabytes of data, update millions of rows of data per second, and field trillions of queries daily across...
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IBM Wants to Make its Watson Supercomputer as Small as a Pizza Box
IBM researchers are developing handheld computers with the power of today's supercomputers.
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Google Agitates For a Revolution in Web Development
Google company engineers say Web Components, a World Wide Web Consortium standard designed to help organize complex Web pages, will "change everything."
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Cross-Industry Iot Group Pushes For Gear That Works Together
Five information technology and equipment firms launched the Industrial Internet Consortium Thursday to guide standards for the Internet of Things.
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Faster Computer Performance Targeted By Memory Consortium
The Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium has proposed a faster and more power-efficient specification for its emerging Hybrid Memory Cube memory technology.
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Biologically Inspired: How Neural Networks Are Finally Maturing
Neural networks modeled on the human brain have advanced over the past 20 years and are now making their way into mainstream computing.
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Home Appliance Makers Connect with Open Source 'internet of Things' Project
The AllSeen Alliance has developed an open source framework to enable systems to discover, connect, and interact with each other, regardless of manufacturer or...
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Experimental Malware ses Inaudible Sound to Defeat Network Air Gaps
Researchers have tested the feasibility of creating a covert acoustical mesh network between multiple laptops to exchange data using near-ultrasonic frequencies...
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Intel Proposes New Standard to Light Up Data Transfers
Intel's proposed new optical interconnect, MXC, could be a key step in standardizing optical technology and bringing it to servers faster.
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Facebook Invents a Php Virtual Machine
Facebook says it has developed a virtual machine that can run the PHP Web programming language nine times as fast as PHP natively on large systems.
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China Trounces .s. in Top500 Supercomputer Race
China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer has overtaken the U.S.'s Titan system as the world's most powerful computer, according to the latest Top500 List, a twice-yearly...
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Flexible, Networked E-Ink Displays Mimic Physical Documents
Researchers at the Computer Human Interaction conference in Paris unveiled electronic ink displays that can bend as a form of input.
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New Spec Tool to Id Most Energy-Efficient Servers
A new toolkit can help guide the selection of the most energy-efficient server to meet specific needs.
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Supercomputers Face Growing Resilience Problems
North Carolina State University researchers have developed software that runs in conjunction with the Message Passing Interface, a library for splitting applications...
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Cray Bumps IBM From Top500 Supercomputer Top Spot
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Titan supercomputer system, a Cray XK7, was named the world's fastest supercomputer in the latest edition of the Top500 list.
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