This year, the retail price of one mip (millions of instructions per second) of computer performance will drop below a dollar.
In 2001, we spun off iolo Labs as an independent research arm to understand more specifically the fundamental issues in personal computer performance and stability.
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That invention sent computer performance on a rocket-like trajectory upward, its ascent governed by what became popularly known as Moore's Law, after Intel founder Gordon Moore who coined it.
Power efficiency and optimization calls for an intelligent combination of the automated monitoring of power conditions and the ability to adjust power, temperatures, computer performance and workloads on the fly.
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The nationwide survey revealed that more than half (52%) of U.S. adults who own a computer have been unhappy with the performance of their computer in the past 6 months, with an overwhelming majority (94%) of those who have experienced performance problems indicating that their computer performance issues have caused them to experience stress.
Where they once boasted about performance, computer-makers now talk about performance-per-watt, and emphasise their energy-saving credentials.
Ordinary, not-marching-in-step atomic beams are already used in precision clocks, and to etch some high-performance computer chips.
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Sumit Gupta, product lead for high performance computer at Nvidia, recalls the amused interest the company faced at the U.S. Supercomputing conference three years ago.
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For those unfamiliar with the terminology, one gigahertz is equal to 1, 000 megahertz -- megahertz being the "clock speed" used to measure the basic performance of computer microprocessors.
These questions have raised fears in the financial services industry that the department will put a government stamp of approval on one type of investing--index mutual funds--and mandate that computer modeling ignore past performance, considering only past costs.
Apple claims the new version of its tablet computer offers 9x the graphics performance of the old model.
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When Fujitsu, a Japanese computer giant, introduced a performance-based pay scheme during the 1990s, it proved so unpopular that the company had to scale it back.
Criminals "are designing hacking tools in a smart way, so it doesn't take as many resources in the computer" and slow down performance, which could signal something wrong with the machine, Kim said.
Combining IBM Research's expertise in the areas of mathematical sciences, computer science and high-performance computing with the deep-power engineering and operational know-how of the participating members, the Institute will focus on five core innovation tracks to pursue joint research and where shared investments, knowledge and capabilities will benefit every member.
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The M5S SSD can truly responds to the complex access environment of the computer and bring a superb computing performance under stable speeds.
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It causes my computer to slow down, degrades its performance and basically causes all kinds of problems.
Widespread cost cutting and steady demand for computer chips enabled it to improve its performance, the company said.
Eventually it gets too loud, so gamers replace fans with a water-cooling system--essentially a car radiator for their computer--which also enhances overall performance.
Its parent company, Pioneer Corporation, is a preeminent manufacturer of high-performance audio, video and computer equipment for the home, car and business markets and is celebrating 75 years of innovation in the consumer electronics industry.
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All relevant functions including looping, cueing, effects control and track browsing are immediately accessible on the robust and portable hardware, while dynamic multi-color backlighting, LED status displays and comprehensive level metering allow DJs to focus on their performance rather than on the computer screen.
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This ranking is based on a performance measurement of the "K computer(1), " currently under their joint development.
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Each year the computer industry delivers more capability and improved price performance which wides the scope of customers who find big data systems affordable.
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Super Micro Computer, which makes servers used for high performance applications, this afternoon posted better-than-expected results for its fiscal second quarter ended December 31.
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Computer scientists have wrung nearly all of the performance they can from this approach and can't do much better than they are, even as hardware continues to get faster.
This approach is said to offer a significant performance boost to a HDD only computer and at a much lower cost for a given storage capacity than a SSD only computer.
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The LINPACK benchmark program, running on the part of the system that employs 68, 544 CPUs installed on the K computer being configured, recorded the world's top performance of 8.162 petaflops.
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To test the system's performance at the configuration stage, the K computer's processing speed was measured by the LINPACK benchmark program, placing it on the 37th TOP500 ranking of the world's fastest supercomputers.
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This chart compares the performance of 12 VMs. Except for Apple Computer's Macintosh Runtime for Java (MRJ), all of the JVMs were tested on the same hardware and with the same Java application code.
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