TalkingTech
The view from the top of IT with TechWorld Editor Rohan Pearce
Addressing the growing market for tools that handle very large data sets, Microsoft has released a beta set of technologies, called Dryad, to manage and analyze large amounts of information across a cluster of Windows Servers.
By Joab Jackson | 21 December, 2010 06:09
BMC Software announced Friday it has purchased GridApp Systems, maker of software tools for database provisioning, patching and management in physical and cloud deployments. Terms were not disclosed.
By Chris Kanaracus | 04 December, 2010 00:48
French hosting company ViFiB thinks it can save on expensive data center space by placing its servers in homes and offices with broadband Internet access, putting it somewhere between cloud computing services such as Amazon Web Services and distributed computing projects such as SETI@home.
By Peter Sayer | 15 June, 2010 05:11
IBM on Thursday said it is now offering high-performance computing services to customers who want to get supercomputers up and running faster.
By Agam Shah | 19 June, 2009 09:07
Contribute to projects including the LHC, climate forecasting, projects that benefit humanity, target disease cures and more.
By Bob Brown | 25 November, 2009 12:03
Watson is the latest IBM Research Grand Challenge, designed to further the science of natural language processing through advances in question and answer technology. This white paper explains Watson’s workload optimized system design, how it’s emblematic of the future of systems design, and why this represents a new computing paradigm.
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