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  • Is AMD losing its supercomputing lustre?

    Academics once picked up on AMD's processors for supercomputing because they were inexpensive and performed well. But while the chips continue to conquer more of the desktop market, their attractiveness for supercomputers may have dimmed.

  • IBM, screensaver to tackle smallpox

    IBM and a host of technology partners are working on software for the US Defense Department that will let the idle time of anyone's computer be devoted to investigate antismallpox drugs, the companies are expected to announce Wednesday.

  • Intel buys cluster-computing software

    Intel has agreed to buy a high-performance computing software group from German company Pallas, the chipmaker's latest effort to use software to let customers squeeze more performance out of its processors.

  • IBM expands flexible computing plan

    IBM added muscle to its "on-demand" computing push Thursday, with the debut of several efforts designed to help it defend its position in the technology world.

  • Sun makes play for games market

    Sun Microsystems hopes to open new frontiers for its Java technology by spinning off a division dedicated to pushing the programming language into computer and video games.

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