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IBM scientists unveiled a powerful and efficient technique to cool 3-D chip stacks with water.

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The Cupertino software provider appointed Anne Bonaparte president and chief executive officer.

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The prefix "peta" stands for a million billion, also known as a quadrillion. For the Roadrunner supercomputer, operating at petaflop/s performance means the machine can process a million billion calculations ...

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The PCI Special Interest Group has released a new set of standards that extends the capabilities of PCI Express for a range of computer and communication systems.

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Credit: LeRoy N. Sanchez, Records Management, Media Services and Operations Less than a week after Los Alamos National Laboratory's Roadrunner supercomputer began operating at world-record petaflop/s ...

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Posted: Today at 12:42 p.m. Big Blue is stepping up its efforts to go "green." On Wednesday, IBM rolled out a suite of new energy efficient technologies and services to help businesses struggling with surging ...

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In describing the next version of the Mac OS X operating system - aka Snow Leopard - at WWDC, Steve Jobs said Apple would focus principally on technology for the next generation of the industry's increasingly ...

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Beep, Beep! The world's fastest computer, at more than 1 quadrillion calculations per second, is appropriately named, Roadrunner.

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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates formally entered the computer business in 1975 as a gangly geek and later this month will semi-exit as an industry luminary leaving behind a billion-dollar juggernaut and a legacy ...

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Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop - 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second - twice as fast as the world's previous fastest computer, IBM's Blue Gene.

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