An effort in which thousands of people donate their computers' unused processing power uncovers the largest prime number so far known. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...
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Chasing pi to infinity: 314 trillion digits calculated in a 110-day computing marathon
Numbers rarely make headlines, but pi has a habit of doing exactly that. The ...
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AI’s math tricks don’t work for scientific computing
Low-precision number formats don’t suit many simulations ...
Peer-to-peer or grid computing has been around for quite a few years now. Corporate enterprises have shown little interest, but the scientific community has embraced it as a means to enable its ...
We are pouring through Amazon’s earnings release to mine the biggest takeaways. AWS Growth: Comes in at 19%. This is even with last quarter’s growth rate, but could be considered a positive as both ...
We’ve been reporting on server growth around cloud computing for a while. And now, according to IDC, worldwide server market revenues increased 11 percent in the second quarter. Clearly, this is not ...
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