What is IBM Roadrunner? Roadrunner was a supercomputer developed by IBM at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. This hybrid supercomputer cost $133 million to develop. In 2008, Roadrunner became the first computer to break what has been called the petaflop barrier — the ability to operate at a rate of a thousand […]
What is a pizza box server? The term “pizza box server” refers to the shape of a computer server enclosed in a rectangular and horizontally arranged chassis and often installed in a rack with similar servers. A pizza box is roughly the same size as one of these servers, hence the name. A pizza box […]
What is a job scheduler? A job scheduler is a computer program that enables an enterprise to schedule and, in some cases, monitor computer “batch” jobs (units of work). The scheduler application ensures the execution of jobs at specific times or in response to specific triggering events. A job scheduler controls the execution of various […]
What is statistical mean, median, mode and range? The terms mean, median, mode, and range describe properties of statistical distributions. In statistics, a distribution is the set of all possible values for terms that represent defined events. The value of a term, when expressed as a variable, is called a random variable. There are two […]
After almost three decades at the top of the list for most approved patents in the US, IBM dropped to No. 2 in 2022 behind Samsung Electronics Co., reflecting a shift in Big Blue’s strategic direction the past few years. IBM’s patent count dropped 44% to 4,743 in 2022. It trailed Samsung’s 8,513 patents, which […]
Dell joined a growing list of top-tier tech companies laying off employees, citing economic slowdown and lower demand for PCs and laptops. In an SEC filing, Dell said it plans to lay off some 6,650 employees to “stay ahead of the downturn impacts,” brought on by the widespread and ongoing macro-economic conditions. In an internal […]
What is a mission-critical application? A mission-critical application is a software program or suite of related programs that must function continuously for a business or business segment to be successful. Even brief downtime of a mission-critical application is likely to have negative financial consequences. In addition to lost productivity, a mission-critical app’s failure to function […]
In the wake of Intel’s declining revenue reported last week, AMD offered a glimmer of hope for the semiconductor industry, with a higher-than-expected earnings report for the fourth quarter. But even AMD sounded a cautionary note in an otherwise positive earnings report. While revenue from AMD’s data center business jumped 42%, to $1.7 billion in […]
For the fourth consecutive quarter, Intel’s revenue spiraled down as sagging PC sales, mounting competitive pressures and tightening IT budgets continue to weigh on the company’s financial performance. Intel’s fourth-quarter revenue plummeted 32%, to $14.04 billion. The company reported a $664 million net loss, compared with a profit of $4.62 billion in the year-ago quarter. […]