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August 26, 2005IBM to enter continuous data protection
IBM, the US computer company is developing software that will continuously back up information on the PCs of small and medium-sized firms. The company is adapting its corporate Tivoli product as part of its strategy to secure more business from firms with less than 1,000 staff. Smaller firms often have inadequate protection against computer crashes or virus attacks. The IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files software will also be able to back up work on laptops from staff at remote locations. It will copy data within seconds of it being entered or changed on a PC or a more powerful server computer. This is a significant improvement on rival crash recovery products which only back up information several times a day. According to Reuters, the software will be unveiled on Friday and will go on sale on September 16. It will cost $35 (£19.41) per laptop or desktop PC and $995 per server processor. Dianne Macadam, an industry analyst at US-based DataMobility Group said: "The enterprise market is not seeing the high growth rate that we are seeing in the small and medium-sized market". Posted at 07:56 PM
August 15, 2005IBM tests SHARK for text input
Researchers at IBM expect tracing letters on a touchscreen to become as easy as using a keyboard to write emails. The company has developed software, known as Shark (Shorthand-Aided Rapid Keyboarding) that works by recognising the pattern of words. Although handheld computing devices such as PDAs and Tablet PCs are becoming increasingly powerful, their usage is limited by the current methods of tapping out words on an on-screen virtual keyboard, using software to decipher hand-writing or learning a kind of shorthand. All of these methods are slow and error rates are high. Speech recognition software is another option, but this has problems with long, complete sentences. IBM researchers Dr Shumin Zhai and Per-Ola Kristensson found that people remember patterns and not letters, via higher level learning that is encoded in human memory. The researchers used this idea to develop software that uses geometrical patterns to represent words. Instead of tapping out letters or writing a word on screen, the user traces each letter in a single stroke. The keyboard on screen shows the shape of the word. According to Dr Zhai, 100 patterns cover approximately 40% of the words most people write. In tests, some users achieved speeds of up to 70 words per minute, which is slower than touch-typing but much faster than tapping out words with a stylus. An experimental version of the software has been available as a free download from IBM's Alphaworks site for a year. It is now ready to go into commercial development and could be featured on PDAs in the near future. Posted at 07:19 PM
June 22, 2005BlueGene/L supercomputer still most powerful computer
IBM's BlueGene/L supercomputer, which is under construction at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US, has retained its leading place in the list of the most powerful machines on Earth. It has a processing peak of 136.8 teraflops, which will be doubled when construction is complete. The Top 500 list is drawn up every six months. IBM's BlueGene/L was placed first for the second time because its processing capacity doubled in size since the last list was drawn up. When it is completed the BlueGene/L will use 65,536 processors to look at problems such as molecular dynamics, metrial modelling and turbulence and instability in hydrodynamics. A BlueGene system was also in second place. It was recently installed in IBM's Thomas J Watson Research Center in New York and has a processing peak of 91.2 teraflops. IBM produced 51.8% of the machines on the Top 500 list, alongside manufactures such as Silicon Graphics, NEC, Hewlett-Packard and Cray. Intel was the leading supplier of hardware, which was used in 333 of the systems listed. Nasa's Columbia supercomputer at the Ames Research Center in California was in third place. The basic power requirement needed to be placed in the Top 500 list is 1.166 teraflops, compared with the basic 850.6 gigaflops needed to be included in the November 2004 list. The Top 500 list is compiled by Hans Meuer of the University of Mannheim in Germany, Erich Strohmaier and Horst Simon of NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US and Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Posted at 07:34 PM
March 20, 2005Giants stand behind open source
The companies are seeking closer working ties, in terms of "consulting support and technical expertise" to help them develop applications for SUSE Linux on IBM platforms. The move is part of a wider push by IBM to move Linux into the forefront of business technology, and has already spent years developing Linux for wider mainstream use. Linux is an open source operating systemm developed from Unix, and comes in a number of "flavours", with SUSE Linux being a particular flavour developed by Novell. Also this week, Google announced the opening of Google Code, which seeks to use programming languages such as C++ visual basic, and Python, for development of internet applications that could benefit the company. This follows the earlier unveiling by Yahoo! of the Yahoo! Developer Network, which is intended to focus on development of products that utlise Yahoo! Search technology. Posted at 09:39 PM
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