Kermit the Frog sang the song, "It's not easy being Green". We hear more and more about technologies that are also green - green hard disk drives, green servers, and lower power chips. Today, I was reading an article on eWeek that two of IBM's Blue Gene/Q Supercomputer prototypes appear at the top of the latest Green500 supercomputer list. You can read about the Green500 list at http://www.green500.org/home.php.
For developers, Intel provides an Energy Checker SDK. The SDK gives developers ...
Who wants more Bits (binary digits)? I first started programming in September 1969 on an IBM 360 model 40 as a Freshman at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Computer Science Department. The IBM 360/40 had a 16-bit data width, 32-bit general purpose registers, and 64-bit floating point registers. I also got permission to program (using Assembler and FOCAL) on the PDP-8 (12-bit single accumulator, up to 32k of 12-bit memory words) that was in the Journalism department. Later on, Professor Emile Attala ...