Technology designed to blast aliens in computer games is part of a new GPU (graphics processing units) computer cluster that will process research data thousands of times faster and more efficiently ...

Decades before "big data" and "the cloud" were a part of our everyday lives and conversations, a custom computer cluster based at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ...

A new computer cluster has been unveiled by Queen Mary, University of London that will link to a 100,000 processor grid in the UK and around the world. The projects that will be researched include a ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- When engineers conduct research on groundwater, the water that flows beneath Earth's surface, they usually think of "large-scale" as one watershed -- an area of land where all of the ...

When black holes crash into each other at the center of a galaxy, the safest place to be is on the other side of the computer simulating the drama. Scientists who study black holes simulate ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University, with a $3.6 million gift from Sun Microsystems, is giving recycled PCs new life as a computer cluster that makes high-performance computing power available in ...

A computer cluster consisting of 1,100 Apple Computer Inc. Power Mac G5 desktops that were purchased online and connected in a matter of weeks by Virginia Tech is currently the third fastest computer ...

Jeremi Gosney, the founder and CEO of Stricture Consulting Group, recently showcased a GPU-based computer cluster capable of brute forcing its way through any standard eight-character Windows password ...

For the last decade, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff has promoted his pet idea that traditional application software was destined for obsolescence. He was a few years early, but Benioff understood ...