08/28/2008
A Sterling Example of SOA (PC World)
Expert analysis, advice and prognostications about Service Oriented Architecture and distributed computing.
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08/26/2008
GPUs contributing petaflops to science research (MacNN)
Stanford's Folding@home (FAH) distributed computing project, with the help of GPUs, has produced information contained in over 50 peer-reviewed published scientific papers. The scientists are using the idle power of millions of processors from users all over the world to help study protein folding. A free program can be downloaded that will use an idle computer or Playstation 3 to run scientific ...
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08/26/2008
Faster folding (the Engineer)
Graphic processors are contributing over one petaflop of processing power to Stanford University’s Folding @ home distributed computing application.
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08/26/2008
NVIDIA Achieves Monumental Folding@home Milestone With CUDA (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
NVIDIA GPUs are contributing over 1 petaflop[1 ] of processing power to Stanford University's Folding@home distributed computing application as of last week, according to the statistics published by Stanford.
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08/28/2008
Computing from the bottom up (CNET)
The IT industry is in a qualitatively different place than it once was. The enterprise architects still have a job to do.
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08/25/2008
Cloud computing: A catchphrase in puberty (The Register)
How Google and Amazon will take your money and step on your dreams Fail and You It's been called a lot of things: utility computing, grid computing, distributed computing, and now cloud computing. You can come up with any CTO-friendly name you like, but they all mean the same shit: Renting your quickly depreciating physical assets out because your software company is out of ideas for ...
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08/28/2008
Who is Technology's Highest Paid CEO? (SYS-CON Media)
Technology's highest paid CEO currently is also America's highest paid CEO, namely Larry Ellison of Oracle - who with a fiscal 2008 pay package of $84.6M is the top earner at any of the Standard & Poor's 500 companies. Noting that annual pay totals are "based on salary, bonuses, incentives and perks," the Associated Press reports that Ellison's pay in 2008 was 38% higher than the $61.2M pay ...
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08/27/2008
Who provides what in the cloud (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News)
The news that AT&T has joined the rapidly growing ranks of cloud computing providers reinforces the argument that the latest IT outsourcing model is well on its way to becoming a classic disruptive technology.
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08/28/2008
Olympic Gold Medalist Gives Props to Google Earth (PC World)
Kristin Armstrong, a U.S. Olympic Cyclist, credited Google Earth with helping her to find the ideal training route.
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08/28/2008
Nvidia CEO touts visual computing (Digi Times)
Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO and president of Nvidia kicked off Nvidia's Nvision 08 event by touting the performance of the GPU – and the company's CUDA technology, which allows programmers and developers to tap into the parallel processing ability of the company's GPUs when writing software – compared to a CPU for use in visual computing.
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