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Sun Looks for a Greater Role in HPC

Sun Microsystems is looking to shine a light on its high-performance computing ambitions.While IBM and its Roadrunner supercomputer have gained the lion's share of...

Hakia Serves Semantic Search to Businesses

While stories are regularly written about how far away the glorious notion of the Semantic Web is, semantic search, which among other things discerns...

WiMax Gear Clears Standards

From dongles to chips to base stations and receivers, the WiMAX Forum June 18 approved 10 products for the 2.5GHz profile. These products are...

Cisco reports SNMP authentication flaws

Networking giant Cisco has issued a security advisory warning users of two authentication vulnerabilities in version 3 of SNMP, the widely-adopted Internet protocol element...

Flashtops Starting to Become a Force

NEW YORK -- Solid-state flash-based laptops are starting to move from market shelves in 2008, pretty much on the schedule The Station discussed almost...

Can Google Capitalize on Facebook’s Fade?

An interesting thought occurred to me after, and regrettably not during, a conversation I had with IDC analyst Karsten Weide two days ago.I was...

Steep Penalty for Alleged H-1B Scammer

Bail of $800,000 was set for an Edison, N.J., zoning board member arrested June 10 and charged with conducting an immigration racket between January...

No Surprise: IBM’s Roadrunner Takes Top Supercomputer Honors

The era of the petaflop supercomputer is now officially here.IBM's $100 million Roadrunner supercomputer, which is being installed at the U.S. Department of Energy's...

Fastest-ever Windows HPC Cluster

Microsoft fastest-yet homegrown supercomputer, running the U.S. company's new Windows HPC Server 2008, debuted in the top 25 of the world's top 500 fastest...

First Impressions of Firefox 3

Firefox 3 is finally here. I've been testing the betas and release candidates off and on and there's no doubt it's an improvement on...