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  • Grids and super computers: IBM GSA’s Doug Elix

    IBM GSA’s Doug Elix talks to the WCIT audience about the increasing tendancy of senior management staff to take a role in IT purchasing decisions.

  • Apple considers modest move into clusters

    Though Apple doesn't fancy itself a giant of high-performance computing, the company says it's making some headway in regard to both supercomputers and smaller-scale clusters.

  • 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.

  • Can your PC crack the secrets of the universe?

    Not many insurance company employees can say they help unravel the secrets of the universe in their spare time.

  • Computers get all clustered

    World experts are meeting in Brisbane to brainstorm the next step in the evolution of the Internet - linking idle computers via the Net to provide super-computer capacity.

  • Sun Grid to launch in US this week

    Sun Microsystems plans to open its much-delayed public Sun Grid this week or next, letting people use PayPal to buy processing cycles, company president Jonathan Schwartz said.

  • First phase of supercollider grid goes live

    CERN has launched the first phase of a grid computing project designed to process data from the Large Hadron Collider, which will search for the origins of the universe.

  • Office politics grind on grid computing

    Social issues are a bigger problem than technology when it comes to the adoption of the "grid" philosophy of pooling computing resources, according to a study.

  • Grids over the enterprise WAN

    SPECIAL REPORT Currently more an academic curiosity than a commercial venture, grid computing will eventually affect enterprises -- as long the concept survives the hype.

  • Oracle enters the grid

    commentary A great leap for computer-kind or a small marketing step?

  • Sun funds Seti@home

    Sun Microsystems is to fund the next version of Seti@home, the distributed computing project that is looking for intelligent alien life.

  • HP mixes business with grids

    Hewlett-Packard has begun a push to merge the supercomputing world of "grid" computing with its own business-oriented products.

  • Photos: Datacentre heat, Google's secret solution

    When supercomputers get together, things get hot fast. Our photo gallery reveals how modern datacentres are cooled, and gives an insight into Google's secret solution to the problem.

  • New Internet speed record set

    Researchers have set a new data transmission record over the Internet2's high-speed backbone.

  • Microsoft creating Windows for supercomputers

    Microsoft has launched an effort to produce a version of Windows for high-performance computing, a move seen as a direct attack on a Linux stronghold.

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