That is the idea that big processing tasks can be carried out by farms of computers working part time on the project. Talking about money, Sun is the latest company to jump on board the craze for distributed resource computing.
The BBC is embarking on a programme to educate regional communities about the high-tech revolution - by bus. The venerable broadcaster has, with a little help from Time Education, equipped eight buses with a network of workstations, giving...
This means that, in fairness, you shouldn't really trust the internet - any more than you would trust, say, notices pinned on a public board somewhere. It is these services which we should be deciding whether or not to trust - along with the...
And waste is not a word the board likes to hear. But larger financials are blessed with global offices full of computers. Companies with big demands for processing power are nervous about sharing resources with other firms, let alone potential...
Tulsa compensates by using a huge 16MB of on-board high-speed cache memory but the high-performance model will consume up to 150 watts compared with 80 watts for Woodcrest. Another expected the alliance to include desktop and laptop computers as well.
Banks could then draw Selt from the Board of Commissioners of Currency and load it onto their computers. In 1998, the Board of Commissioners of Currency in Singapore proposed to create an electronic currency - Singapore Electronic Legal Tender...