Articles tagged ‘siliconvalley’

Searching the Web has become synonymous with surfing the Web.

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.

Linux and open source software (OSS) are widely used for internal as well as high-visibility external projects at both NASA and ESA. While the future is bright for open technologies at both space agencies, procurement rules and licensing considerations may need to be changed to better support the advantages of Linux and OSS.

Tux is hoisting anchor and setting sail for the new world of digital movie making. Linux is at the helm of new animated adventures like Dreamworks Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas and jaw-dropping special effects in many other films.

Even as platinum players like IBM, HP, Sun, Red Hat, Intel, CA and Oracle expand the market for this jewel of the free software movement, the other character of Linux and open source peeks now and then from behind the shiny counters, logos, and equipment. Linux is still a grassroots, bottom-up effort.

New technologies push Linux into the enterprise as the community strives to preserve the basics.

Computational devices will pervade everyday items from the car to the toaster and everyday activities from money and banking to medicine and travel.

The democratization of technology has lowered the barrier for mere mortals to communicate.