Articles tagged ‘japan’

Price competition and multi-cultural flexibility introduced by OSS reinforces the need for companies such as Microsoft to be better team players to earn the respect and support of their customers.

The UN’s grand summit to articulate a common vision for the global Information Society disappoints and, at the end of the day, only serves to marginalize the people who need the benefits of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) the most.

A decade ago, the Beowulf project revolutionized High Performance Computing (HPC). At that time, the strategy of every high performance computing vendor was to pump up and protect the astronomical prices charged for each gain in perceived performance. Fortunately, Moore’s law works in just the opposite way: greater performance means lower cost. This paradox has everything to do with manufacturers like Intel and AMD being able to make denser and better circuits at cheaper and cheaper costs. It is this commoditization of hardware that drives HPC today.