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Smartphone chips to power prototype supercomputer
Smartphone and tablet chips are now making their way into high-performance computers, providing an energy-efficient alternative to the power-hungry server chips used in the world's fastest supercomputers.
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Could the Bitcoin network be used as an ultrasecure notary service?
Manuel Araoz, a 23-year-old developer in Argentina, has an idea for Bitcoin that doesn't focus on money.
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Nvidia, Citrix crank up virtual desktop delivery
Improvements to Nvidia's virtualization technology are aimed at turning graphics processors into a more important resource in data centers and could speed deployment of virtual desktops and delivery of data over the cloud.
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40 years ago, Ethernet's fathers were the startup kids
Bob Metcalfe, Dave Boggs and the rest of the scientists at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1973 were a lot like young developers at a Silicon Valley startup today.
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Interop 2013: Big data is a big but young market
A recent survey by Forrester found that 7% of IT executives and 9% of business leaders feel they have gained a true return on investment from big data. That means there's a lot more business can be doing to glean insights from the massive amount of data that's potentially available to them.
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Nvidia to pair CPUs, graphics processors in future Tesla high-performance chips
Nvidia plans to integrate CPU cores alongside graphics cores in Tesla high-performance chips, which is a change from current Tesla chips that have only graphics processors.
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HP ships dense 4-socket servers for virtualised infrastruture
Hewlett-Packard's new four-socket blade and rack servers for virtualised environments will provide more processing cores and memory in a tighter space so that virtual machines can be deployed more quickly.
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Dell announces servers based on 10-petaflop Stampede supercomputer
Dell announced servers based on designs the company is implementing in an upcoming 10-petaflop supercomputer called Stampede, which will be fully deployed at the University of Texas, Austin, starting next year.
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Janet upgrades its network for increased demand
Research and education network Janet is to deploy a new core switch architecture to support increasing demand from its users as it migrates to an enhanced network.
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VMware launches Spring Hadoop for Java developers
VMware's Spring Hadoop offers link between Spring development framework and Hadoop distributed processing platform.
