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Send to email | One computer to rule them all in General | By Rough Ty el 06-Feb-2008 | IBM has launched an ambitious initiative, called Project Kittyhawk, aimed at building "a global-scale shared computer capable of hosting the entire Internet as an application." Forget Thomas Watson's apocryphal remark that the world may need only five computers. Maybe it needs just one. The Register's Ashlee Vance points to a fascinating white paper about the IBM program. The effort focuses on expanding the company's Blue Gene supercomputer to handle web-scale applications of every imaginable stripe...
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| One computer to rule them all | | IBM has launched an ambitious initiative, called Project Kittyhawk, aimed at building "a global-scale shared computer capable of hosting the entire Internet as an application." Forget Thomas Watson's apocryphal remark that the world may need only five computers. Maybe it needs just one. The Register's Ashlee Vance points to a fascinating white paper about the IBM program. The effort focuses on exp [..] Read complete article |  | Published 06-Feb-2008 by Rough Ty in General Read 14 times. More hits in  |
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| Live: The Presidential Debate | | Clusterstock: The grand tradition of letting Presidential candidates compete for public favor continues tonight at 9 p.m. The rule is that both candidates always prove their point by establishing that the other candidate is unfit to rule. We'll be liveblogging the whole thing!
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| Moody’s to fix sub-prime computer error | | CCC rating (That’s Credit crunch computer cock-up)
Moody’s, the ratings agency, is reviewing its computer models and setting up a central monitoring system after admitting that a bug led it to incorrectly grade several European mortgage debt instruments.
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| How to Improve Your Blog When You Don?t Have Computer Access | Is your computer out of action? Use the time to improve your blog with these six activities as suggested by Ali from Alpha Student.
Even the most ardent bloggers will occasionally find themselves without computer access. If you?re just lacking an internet connection, you can at least write posts ? but what can you do when [...] [..] Read complete article |  | Published 07-Nov-2008 by Darren Rowse in Miscellaneous Blog Tips Read 2 times. More hits in  |
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| Sony Stresses Importance of Games, Games, Games [Kaz Hirai] | | When Kaz Hirai Sony Computer Entertainment, the company's outlook changed. The previous head, PlayStation father Ken Kutaragi, kept talking up the PS3's other selling points. It was a Blu-ray player! It was a super computer! It had 4D!! Somewhere along the line, the focus that Sony Computer E [..] Read complete article |  | Published 15-Oct-2008 by Brian Ashcraft in Kaz Hirai Japan Ken Kutaragi News Playstation 3 PS3 Sony Read 3 times. More hits in ![Images about Sony Stresses Importance of Games, Games, Games [Kaz Hirai]](./images/photo.gif) |
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| Aug. 7, 1944: Harvard, IBM Dedicate Mark I Computer | | 1944: Harvard and IBM dedicate the Mark I computer. Also known as the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, or ASCC, the pioneering computer was notable for producing reliable results and its ability to run 24/7.
Harvard electrical engineer Howard Aiken first dreamt up a large-scale calculator in 1937. He knew he needed a corporate partner and [...] [..] Read complete article |  | Published 07-Aug-2008 by Nerdblog in General Read 3 times. More hits in  |
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| Here's Your LittleBigPlanet Box Art [Littlebigplanet] | | I've got a bit of a rule when it comes to posting box art, since 90% of the time it's utterly unremarkable. If it's going up, it either needs to be for a big, big game, or it needs to be truly excellent cover art. It's lovely when - like in L [..] Read complete article |  | Published 14-Aug-2008 by Luke Plunkett in littlebigplanet Media media molecule Playstation 3 PS3 Sony Read 0 times. More hits in  |
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