If you were looking for a great example of a collaborative map-reduce, then you don't have look much further than the amount of feedback and commentary that the earlier 'Collaborative Map-Reduce in the Browser' post received in a short span of twenty four hours. After making appearances on Slashdot,...

If the definition of insanity is to do the same thing many times and expect a different outcome, then nobody could label Henry Paulson insane because he is doing a wide variety of things. Almost a new thing a day....

Record Drop In Mortgage Rates (not jumbo loans or corporate debt) Rates on 30-year mortgages posted a record drop of 1-1/8 percentage point to 4-7/8 percent on Tuesday, after the Federal Reserve said it would implement a $600 billion plan to support the mortgage securities market. In what has been a...

It's hard to imagine some of the world's most massive, powerful supercomputers can be classified as energy efficient or green. But researchers have done an impressive job of squeezing serious power out of some major systems. And according to the Green500.org group, Big Blue it seems can be c...

Believe it or not, but it has taken 103 years and the combined power of various of the world's top supercomputers to prove Eintein's biggest equation right, resolving e=mc2 at the scale of sub-atomic......

As semiconductor firms get around the limitations of making individual processors faster by putting more cores onto a single chip, the mindset of today’s software developers and engineers mindset needs to adapt. For to really take advantage of multiple cores, a programmer needs to look at ways...

Stony Stevenson writes "The US board of Energy's (DoE) high doing balancing the books* system is now the fastest supercomputer in the world for open science, according to rule to regulation to regulation to the Top 500 list of the world's fastest computers. The list was announced this week during th...

It’s likely a challenge to program and a bitch to debug, but IBM’s (IBM) new Roadrunner supercomputer is the most powerful in the world. With 12,240 cell processors typically found in Sony’s (SNE) PlayStation 3 console and another 6,562 dual-core AMD (AMD) Opteron chips, Roadrunner...

The $100 Million Roadrunner supercomputer was designed and built by IBM for the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration and is housed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. It was named Roadrunner before that's New Mexico's state bird and because they're fast. A...

Nuclear weapons didn’t bring the world any joy so far, I think we can agree on that. But now there actually has emerged a positive side effect: world’s fasted computer. This beast is designed to run virtual tests of U.S. nukes and makes 1,000 trillion calculations per second while doing ...