Mini Supercomputers, Power Misers
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Using low-power chips, parallel processing and innovative architecture, Orion Multisystems introduces personal supercomputers that can plug into a wall socket.
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Massively parallel, 64-bit POWER-based processor to debut at ISSCC
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'Maybe a solution for alternative energy, or something' A group of MIT students and staff has used stationary cycles to power a computer, in a feat that was described by one of them as "something that will hopefully lead to maybe solutions for alternative energy, something like that".â¦
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Computer users are being asked to donate their unused processor power to help solve social and environmental research problems. The IBM-backed project, called World Community Grid, aims to put the untapped
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In an effort to help enterprise users get a handle on power and heat issues associated with new server designs that pack more processing punch in smaller spaces, Advanced Micro Devices on Monday announced that systems built with its 32/64-bit Opteron
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From the "luggable" Apple IIc and Commodore SX-64 to today's Asus Eee PC, portable computers have gotten ever smaller and sleeker. Here are some favorites from days past.
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Chip power has increased dramatically in the last few years, thanks to new multicore processors from Intel, AMD and other chip makers. The problem is, software developers who understand how to utilize the new hardware are in short supply.
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By Mike Rogoway, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Feb. 12--When Intel built its first "tera-scale" computer, capable of  handling a trillion calculations per second, the machine was the size of a  middle-class home.   That was 1996.
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A new micro-generator developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology holds promise for micro-generator technology&#39;s future in electronics devices.
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Smaller than laptops but bigger than PDAs, the devices use stylus and GPS.
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For decades, computer performance has been driven largely by the increasing numbers of ever-smaller transistors squeezed into the machines' silicon brains. With each generation, speeds jumped and prices dropped.
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Forget the Earth Simulator and IBM&#39;s Blue Gene/L, Silicon Graphics (SGI) (Quote, Chart) is laying claim to the fastest supercomputer in the world.
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The computing technologies to go beyond Moore's Law
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New products include slightly faster mainstream models and new lower-power server chips.
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Nanowires put more power in smaller packages, researcher reports.
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Researchers have built a prototype of a 'desktop supercomputer' that runs 100 times faster than today's PCs.
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IBM's Cell processor will power the next great supercomputer, commissioned by the US Dept. of Energy, but it will share the stage with AMD Opteron processors. The result will be the world's fastest computer ever built, reaching 1.6 trillion calculations per second.