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Nvidia to link Telsa graphics processors with the cloud

Nvidia have announced technologies that could make its upcoming Tesla graphics processors more accessible to cloud deployments in enterprises, while also reversing a trend of relegating highly parallel chips to specialised mathematics and scientific calculations.
Hertz adopts Teradata Data Warehouse for real time reporting

Car rental company Hertz has announced it is using Teradata's Active Enterprise Data Warehouse environment for its business critical reporting and decision making on integrated data.
Oracle unveils 'Big Data' appliance

Oracle unveiled the Big Data Appliance, the newest addition to its line of products that combine software and hardware, during the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco yesterday.
Intel runs PC on CPU powered by solar cell

Intel unveiled an experimental low-power processor the size of a postage stamp that could run PCs on solar power at the Intel Developer Forum on Thursday.
AMD FirePro GPU designed for Windows desktop virtualisation

Advanced Micro Devices this week announced a FirePro graphics processor for businesses that can deliver Windows desktop sessions to remote client PCs through support for Microsoft's desktop virtualisation technology.
Nvidia announces Tesla M2090 high performance computing GPU

Nvidia on Tuesday announced the Tesla M2090 graphics processor, which the company calls the world's fastest "parallel processor" for high-performance computing.
HP backs GPU computing for high performance

Graphics processors have always been popular in workstations, but are increasingly handling a larger computational load and bringing supercomputer-like capabilities to complex scientific and math applications, according to a HP executive.
Dell introduces 96 core server

Dell on Monday introduced a server that can accommodate up to 96 CPU cores, a big boost in the computational power provided by its hardware.
AMD announces Fusion processors for netbooks and desktops

Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday announced Fusion processors for embedded systems as it tries to put its chips in new devices such as set-top boxes and small form factor PCs.
Python 3.2 beta moves towards parallel processing

The just released Python 3.2 beta shows the language being tweaked for parallel programming.

Latest Features

Ten essential tools for MySQL admins

The MySQL community is a hotbed of free, open source tools to enhance the performance and health of your MySQL systems
The history of man versus machine clashes

As IBM's Watson computer digs in for its competition on "Jeopardy!" this week, we are reminded that this is the first in a long series of classic man vs machine moments. Here we have a look at some of the famous real and not so real man vs machine action.
What to do with business Big Data

Hadoop and other tools can unlock critical insights from unfathomable volumes of corporate and external data.
Google Go gets the thumbs up from developers

Less than four months after its unveiling at an early, experimental stage, Google Go looks promising to developers who say it offers significant improvements over other programming languages.
Engineers fix shortcomings of the traditional firewall

Do you find yourself putting a Band-Aid solution on a legacy firewall, such as strapping on an intrusion-prevention system here or antivirus software there? If the firewall is a security device, why should we have to surround it with other security devices to help it do its job? A group of security engineers addressed those shortcomings with a new kind of firewall built from the ground up.
Deep Packet Inspection

Deep packet analysis has made its presence in traffic management and network analysis. What does it mean and how does it work?
Automatic for the programmer

The magic of software is that, because there are no limits of physics, we can keep advancing the technology to meet our ambitions. Welcome to the 'endless value spiral.'
Storage in the cloud

Clusters of mega-data centres using millions of servers and disk drives do not use traditional SAN, NAS and DAS storage. Instead intelligent file systems and fail-safe storage hardware is being developed to store petabytes of data safely.
IBM's obfuscatory software pricing - can it last?

IBM has made much of the performance of its new Power6 chip. What it hasn't shouted about is how the new chip has affected its software pricing -- and made a mess that looks set to confuse users.
Moore's Law meets its green match at processor forum

Microprocessor makers say they can meet demand for greater processing power and energy efficiency with new technologies.

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