Unisys, which makes high-power computer systems for banks and credit card companies, is already anticipating a hassle with export authorities when Intel's Itanium chip debuts later this year.
The Air Force is working to see if it can develop a low-power quantum computer using holograms and off the shelf parts.
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The idea is that the donations will serve to offset the carbon dioxide released into the air by the electricity used to power the computer.
Despite the buzz the company has generated, VMware didn't invent virtualization, a class of software that makes better use of the processing power inside computer servers.
But all that star power has so far been matched by the power of computer geeks who are using what they know best to keep the rhythmically challenged Silicon Valley icon in the game.
In a 1965 article for Electronics magazine he formulated Moore's Law, which predicted that the power of computer chips would double every year (later revised to every 18 months) while the cost would decrease at a similar rate.
Many individuals have pooled their computer power to ensure this mathematical work is completed more quickly.
But every time you power up a computer you're doing small amounts of irrevocable damage.
Even so, it requires a great deal of number-crunching, and therefore lots of computer power.
Even though you increase single-computer power usage when consolidating, net power decreases as you take other systems offline.
No one had the computer power to massage all the numbers, so there wasn't any use in standardizing everything.
It mostly consumes ever-expandable resources, such as ideas, computer power and effort.
Computer power, storage and bandwidth get better and cheaper by the year.
By the end of last year, Zoom had enough computer power to open its search engine to the masses--and to process credit-card payments.
He said two main limitations have held SDR back: the speed at which analogue-to-digital converters turn radio waves into numbers, and computer power.
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These days a lot of Chevron's combined brain and computer power is tuned to peer into the gulf's promising Lower Tertiary Wilcox trend.
Google is a successful business because it wastes computer power--it has some 120, 000 servers powering its search engine--while it conserves its dearest resource, people.
Thirty years ago -- well, NASAs elite Ames Research Center, supported by the Department of Defense, could barely assemble one measly mip of computer power.
The strange science of quantum mechanics promises a revolution in computer power as radical as that following the invention of the transistor in the 1950s.
Also at CES, Marvell and OLPC showcased the first prototype of the X0 3.0, a low cost, low power rugged tablet computer designed for education in emerging markets.
In many cases these are older machines which benefit from the fact it is less demanding on computer power than Windows - and is virus-free.
Increased computer power gives the latest games an almost photographic realism.
Small businesses, which have no budget for a big technology department, are especially eager to take advantage of the cheap computer power offered in the cloud.
Today the cheapest resources are computer power and bandwidth.
Now, however, thanks to the dramatic decline in the cost of computer power, wireless devices are far cleverer, meaning that they can use spectrum more efficiently and are more tolerant of interference.
Grid computing attempts to connect up the islands of processing power and data in the world's universities and to standardise ways of interrogating data and calling on huge amounts of computer power.
If there are ways systematically to beat the markets these days, they probably require men with physics doctorates and massive computer power rather than a smooth manner and the right contact book.
Cloud computing "is a catch-all term for the ability to rent as much computer power as you need without having to buy it, without having to know a lot about it, " McAfee says.
Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) is a successful business because it wastes computer power--it has some 120, 000 servers powering its search engine--while it conserves its dearest resource, people.
At the other extreme, scavenging spare computer power from personal computers on the internet is proving an increasingly effective approach for problems that can be split into a large number of small, independent parts.
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