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Hewlett-Packard this week unleashed a barrage of products aimed at delivering affordable and simple computing experiences to the desktop.

CA today announced the integration of CA Endevor Software Change Manager , CA's change management solution, and IBM's Rational Developer for System z V7.6, the IBM Rational mainframe development environment.

The supercomputer is the most powerful computational system in Rhode Island and will be used by researchers statewide to tackle "grand challenges" affecting Ocean State residents in climate change, education, energy and health.

Musical twitterers have found a way to condense entire compositions to fit in single, 140-character tweets.

Cloud computing is luring more businesses with its promise of minimal maintenance and low costs.

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In an era when PCs perform like supercomputers, and supercomputers carry out inhuman feats of calculation, some of the brightest minds in Silicon Valley say there are still crucial ways in which a computer can't match the problem-solving abilities of our own brains.

The fastest supercomputer on the November 2009 list based on an open systems approach , the Pleiades supercomputer ranked sixth overall.

Chrome OS is a natural evolution of the work that's been done on the Chrome browser, Sundar Pichai, VP of product management, and Chrome OS engineering director Matthew Papakipos said when they unveiled it at Google's Mountain View campus on Thursday.

IBM today at super computing conference SC 09 claimed significant progress toward creating a computer system that simulates and emulates the brain's abilities for sensation, perception, action, interaction, and cognition in low-power form and compact size.

Three dimensional web technologies will save the high performance computing industry from its current state of financial stagnation, Intel CTO Justin Rattner predicted at the SC09 supercomputing conference .

Cluster, grid and cloud management software provider Platform Computing announced on Monday the introduction of the Platform Application Center, a new product enabling HPC end users to submit and manage HPC applications through a web-based portal interface.

Hewlett-Packard is trying to tackle concerns about the cost and complexity of thin-client computing with new products and tools, the company announced Tuesday.

We're here at Dreamforce, Salesforce.com's annual cloud computing event in San Francisco.

Microscale rearrangements of genes among 12 Drosophila species. Each gene is indicated by a colored line, showing how gene order is shuffled during the evolution of these species.

Intel said today that it has invested $25 million in seven new startups as part of its goal of increasing demand for its own products.

Intel CTO Justin Rattner spoke remotely with Utah State fern researcher Aaron Duffy -- a simulation of Duffy, to be precise -- to discuss the ways high-performance computing can impact science.

AT&T introduced a global cloud-based service that provides on-demand access to scalable computing capacity.

Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie kicked off the 2009 Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles with a keynote speech that focused heavily on Windows Azure and cloud computing.

Microsoft announced on Monday the release and open-sourcing of its .Net Micro Framework 4.0, which provides a .Net-based development and execution environment for small devices.