"Cloud computing has brought a sea change to the data center--dramatically altering the economics of compute by changing the workload and optimal characteristics of a server, " said Andrew Feldman, SeaMicro CEO, who will become general manager of AMD's newly created Data Center Server Solutions business.
ENGADGET: AMD absorbs server startup SeaMicro for $330 million, says it's no impulse buy
These days, the Goldman Sachs report says, the consumer compute market is led by Android at 42 percent share and Apple at 24 percent share.
FORBES: Microsoft's Market Share Drops From 97% to 20% In Just Over A Decade
Firaxis's philosophy is simple: It'll divert any task to the GPU that can be readily broken down into "buckets" or "work chunks" that are able to be processed by the new and "exotic" algorithms allowed by GPU compute.
By looking at compute capacity as the metric, things begin to change rather quickly.
Last June, Google began ramping up its pursuit of Amazon by unveiling Google Compute Engine, a cloud-computing competitor to Amazon Web Services.
WSJ: Google Follows Amazon's Lead on New Shopping Site, Delivery, Other Services
An integrated-assessment model quantifies the marginal damages of air pollution emissions for the US which are multiplied times the quantity of emissions by industry to compute gross damages.
FORBES: Pollution Costs More Than What is Produced to Make the Pollution
This is the same criterion used by the actuary of Social Security to compute the ultimate measure of the long-term financial condition of Social Security and used by private lenders in determining whether the purpose to which a prospective loan is put will increase the present value of a company's future cash flows by more than the amount of the loan.
Businesses with large data centers can significantly reduce capital expenditure by disaggregating or separating compute and storage resources in a server rack.
ENGADGET: Facebook's Open Compute Project splits up monolithic servers with help from Intel, more
Moreover, most analysts compute the simple price-rent ratio by comparing the prices of current for-sale listings or recent sales to the prices of current rental listings.
FORBES: Rent vs. Buy: What the Standard Indices Aren't Telling You
Interlocked components of GPS, traffic surveillance and flow management could optimize rivers of automobiles to lessen jams and feed cars onto roads with extra capacity -- all informed by an intelligent overview that gets you to your destination quickest by routes you could never compute yourself.
ENGADGET: Editorial: Self-driving cars FTW, but not for everybody
Therefore, the Open Compute Project will be worth at least a review by enterprise IT.
This light is proportional to the surface temperature, so by measuring its brightness a microprocessor can compute the temperature.
Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS), Amazon Mechanical Turk and Amazon CloudFront.
ENGADGET: Kindle is the biggest selling item on Amazon, bests sliced bread
The traditional enterprise and client compute markets will continue to demand high capacity storage solutions and will be best served by hard disk drives, where manufacturers compete on the ability to deliver cost effective, reliable and energy efficient mass storage devices.
FORBES: Seagate's Growth Rides These Storage Business Trends
应用推荐