Transform the apps, the idea goes, and everything moves easier into another computing system.
Wireless chips embedded into every device could transform an ordinary home into a distributed computing system.
Previously code-named "Cascade, " the Cray XC30 supercomputer is the Company's most-advanced high performance computing system ever built.
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Do you scale-up to a high performance computing system or scale-out by just adding nodes to a distributed computing network?
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D-Wave is advertisting a number of different applications for its quantum computing system, primarily in the field of artificial intelligence.
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The protected section was mostly about how the McAfee relationship is bearing fruit, letting Intel address security at the lowest levels of the computing system.
For Labour, shadow environment secretary Mary Creagh said it was "astonishing" the government had "not put in place the advanced computing system to predict severe weather".
It would be more accurate to say that State-sponsored regulation is largely irrelevant because of the inherent design properties of a peer-to-peer distributed computing system.
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Bringing together hundreds of thousands of components to quickly launch such a massive-scale computing system-which would have been nearly impossible using conventional technologies-requires an incredible level of reliability.
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But Cisco threw a grenade into that punchbowl last March, when it announced its Unified Computing System, a collection of data center products that included its own server.
But the idea of handing over your entire computing system to a multinational running a cloud computing system is that they have in place the structures to stop such mistakes.
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The suit charges that IBM "misappropriated the confidential and proprietary information" from a joint SCO-IBM project, called project Monterey, to run Unix on an advanced 64-bit computing system on the Intel platform.
In 2006, Microsoft acquired a health care computing system called Amalga, which aggregates health care data so doctors and hospitals can draw broader conclusions and patients can use it for better care.
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The arrangement, which appears to be the first of its kind in the U.S., is intended to let students use the latest software programs, create a more reliable computing system and extend the life of aging PCs.
The company is working with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on a scientific version of the computer called PERCS (Productive, Easy-to-use, Reliable Computing System).
Last March, Cisco launched what it called a "Unified Computing" system of servers, routers and switches.
Production systems from Quanta Computer and Tyan are expected to be available through Avnet Electronics Marketing, Penguin Computing and other system integrators before the end of Q1.
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Federal investment also produced our modern computing and Internet system as well as advances in military technology that have curtailed the need for using large numbers of ground troops.
Next up: the Vaio XL1 digital living system integrates computing with traditional home entertainment.
The system for computing these payments is zero sum, no new money is being committed, only old money is being shuffled around.
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In November Ovshinsky dropped another doozy: He told an audience in Japan that he has made possible a cognitive computer, one that can mimic the human brain by busting through the limitations of conventional computing's binary system.
Founded in 1975, it rose swiftly to dominate the world of personal computing with its Windows operating system and Office suite of word-processing and other productivity tools.
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Many online travel agencies have come to resemble physical ones, signing up with a GDS which provides a reservations system and other computing power while handing them a commission (ultimately paid by the airlines) on every booking.
Sun's announcement marks the information technology industry's latest step toward "utility computing, " a grid system in which companies pipe in data processing and storage from faraway server farms, says Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch, a book on utility computing published earlier this week.
Yet for the vision to become reality, something is still missing: a set of tools to manage all these computing resources an operating system for the data centre, if you will.
"We are defining a new era of convergence in technology, with one unified operating system that underpins cloud computing, data centers, PCs and consumer electronics" says Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and VP Products at Canonical.
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Kay wants to take computing forward with his next great invention, an operating system that puts the user in a three-dimensional graphic world with scores of other users, all computing collaboratively and communicating through audio and visual messaging.
Windows and Android are the world's most successful computing platforms, with massive ecosystems of system and software developers.
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This could be a problem, especially when servers running Microsoft's Windows 2000 operating system offer industrial-strength computing for the first time.
The innovative Audi MIB modular infotainment system introduces a new powerful computing module, MMX, which is based on the NVIDIA Tegra Visual Computing Module (VCM).
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