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Intel Turns to Light Beams to Speed ­p Supercomputers
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Intel Turns to Light Beams to Speed ­p Supercomputers

Intel has developed a technology that uses optical cables and light pulses to move data in supercomputers.

Researchers Push Supercomputing's Bleeding Edge With Diverse Applications
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Researchers Push Supercomputing's Bleeding Edge With Diverse Applications

One of five finalists will be awarded ACM's Gordon Bell Prize today at the SC14 high-performance computing conference in New Orleans. 

IBM Shares Plans For Supercomputing Future
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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. 

Mozilla Woos Programmers With Plans for a Webdev Browser
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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. 

Ask Watson or Siri: Artificial Intelligence Is as Elusive as Ever
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Ask Watson or Siri: Artificial Intelligence Is as Elusive as Ever

Scientists are no closer to achieving an overall general artificial intelligence, in the sense that a computer can behave like a human.

Wi-Fi Group Acts to Simplify Peer-to-Peer Video, Printing and Other Tasks
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Wi-Fi Group Acts to Simplify Peer-to-Peer Video, Printing and Other Tasks

The Wi-Fi Alliance has unveiled four sets of mechanisms for carrying out certain tasks over Wi-Fi Direct. 

Harvard ­nleashes a Swarm of Self-Organizing Robots
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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. 

IBM Spending $3 Billion to Rethink Decades-Old Computer Design
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IBM Spending $3 Billion to Rethink Decades-Old Computer Design

IBM plans to spend $3 billion over the next five years to research and develop new fundamental computing technologies, focusing specifically on the possibilities...

IBM Wants to Make its Watson Supercomputer as Small as a Pizza Box
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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. 

Google Agitates For a Revolution in Web Development
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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." 

Internet Traffic Congestion Real, But Sporadic, Study Says
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Internet Traffic Congestion Real, But Sporadic, Study Says

A new study suggests Internet congestion can be a problem, but it is often intermittent and temporary. 

Php Keepers Plot Radical Revision of the Language
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Php Keepers Plot Radical Revision of the Language

PHP core developer Dmitry Stogov recently started a new branch of the language called PHP Next Generation.

IBM and Fujifilm Show Super Dense Storage Tape For Big Data Work
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IBM and Fujifilm Show Super Dense Storage Tape For Big Data Work

Researchers at IBM and Fujifilm are developing a magnetic tape prototype that can store 85.9 billion bits of data per square inch.

Faster Computer Performance Targeted By Memory Consortium
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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. 

China Trounces ­.s. in Top500 Supercomputer Race
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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...

New Spec Tool to Id Most Energy-Efficient Servers
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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. 

Google Publishes Zopfli as Open Source Compression Algorithm to Speed ­p Web Downloads
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Google Publishes Zopfli as Open Source Compression Algorithm to Speed ­p Web Downloads

A new general purpose data compression library from Google can be used to accelerate Web downloads. 

Researchers Develop Featherweight Chips That Dissolve in Water
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Researchers Develop Featherweight Chips That Dissolve in Water

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers have developed integrated circuits that can stick to the skin and in some cases dissolve in water when they...

Supercomputers Face Growing Resilience Problems
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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...

Cray Bumps IBM From Top500 Supercomputer Top Spot
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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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