One of the largest companies already to have signed up with the venture is Lego - building-block favourite of all fledging (object oriented? The open source community is notoriously dedicated to its cause but Young had no qualms about leaving the...
Grid* Platform Computing, known for distributed resource management and grid computing software, has recently made some announcements that extend its market presence. Platform Federal will develop and customise grid software solutions for the US...
On Thursday, researchers at the US-based National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure announced full Itanium 2 support for its software, which is designed to make it less difficult to set up Linux-based supercomputer clusters.
The Mobility Radeon X800, meanwhile, is designed for gaming notebooks and thus offers extras such as the ability to interface with up to 256MB of dedicated video memory. ATI is also offering a new Mobility Radeon X800 graphics chip for high-end...
Most development today is done on single machines, but data centres increasingly are populated by clusters of low-end servers. Now part two is coming, in what the company is calling its Sun Grid: storage costing $1 per gigabyte per month.
Individual scientists can then access data from Tier-3 sites which could be local clusters or individual PCs. The mysteries of dark matter, multiple dimensions and even the conditions following the Big Bang could be solved with the help of the...