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Sun boosts new servers with flash memory
Sun Microsystems announced six servers based on Intel's new Xeon 5500 processors, testing whether it can sell new systems at the same that it may be trying to sell the company.
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Bruce Allen is perhaps the world's best do-it-yourselfer. When he needed a supercomputer to crunch the results of gravitational-wave research, he built one with his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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Meet Justin King -- the one-man IT shop. At the five-year-old Human Neuroimaging Laboratory at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, IT plays a key role in innovative research involving functional magnetic resonance imaging machines.
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Supercomputer helps with cancer research
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Q&A;: What Roadrunner's petaflop Top500 milestone is all about
The Top500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers passed a milestone Wednesday with the first system to achieve peak performance of 1 petaflop, or one quadrillion floating point operations per second. Erich Strohmaier, a computer scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, was one of the founding editors of the Top500 list back in 1993. He talked with IDG News Service about the performance gains the list has seen, the quad-core processors that are coming to dominate it and mistakes that can creep in when the list is put together.
Processing That Packs a Punch
Northrop Grumman's SuperCluster will enable scientists and engineers working on spacecraft design and other projects to perform complex computations on the massive amounts of data.
Stunt IT
Flashy, well-hyped IT projects -- stunts -- can have practical results, Frank Hayes observes.
Tales from the crypt: Our first computers
Computerworld editors share stories of their first PCs, including some classics and some real clunkers. Then we turn the tables and ask readers to share their early-PC tales.
Opinion: IGF — IBM's unseen competitive weapon
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