Chapter 1: Parallel Computing at a Glance 1 1 Parallel Computing at a Glance It is now clear that silicon based processor chips are reaching their physical limits in processing speed‚ as they are constrained by the speed of electricity‚ light‚ and certain thermodynamic laws. A viable solution to overcome this limitation is to connect multiple processors working in coordination with each other to solve grand challenge problems. Hence‚ high performance computing requires the use of Massively
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The future of Social Computing?? * Ruchika Arora The article is based on the article John Riedl‚ “The Promise and Peril of Social Computing”‚ IEEE publication‚ Volume: 44‚ Issue: 1‚ Publication Year: 2011‚ Page(s): 93 - 95. The author of the article presents to us the world of social computing‚ its evolution and its scope‚ highlights some interesting developments in this field‚ and evaluates its impact on human lives and social structures‚ in particular. The article leads the deliberation
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leads nature to destruction. One way to prevent global warming is implementing green computing. Wikipedia defines green computing as this: "Green computing or green IT‚ refers to environmentally sustainable computing or IT." This definition means preventing computers to damage environment or use computing to improve the situation of nature for any organisms‚ especially humans. San Murugesan defined green computing field in the article "Harnessing Green IT: Principles and Practices" as this: "the
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GamingAnywhere: An Open Cloud Gaming System Chun-Ying Huang1 ‚ Cheng-Hsin Hsu2 ‚ Yu-Chun Chang3‚4 ‚ and Kuan-Ta Chen3 1 Department of Computer Science‚ National Taiwan Ocean University 2 Department of Computer Science‚ National Tsing Hua University 3 Institute of Information Science‚ Academia Sinica 4 Department of Electrical Engineering‚ National Taiwan University chuang@ntou.edu.tw‚ chsu@cs.nthu.edu.tw‚ congo@iis.sinica.edu.tw‚ ktchen@iis.sinica.edu.tw ABSTRACT Cloud gaming is a promising
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social products. 7-15 Why is mobile computing so important to these three firms? Evaluate the mobile strategies of each firm. Ans: Mobile computing is extremely important to these firms because it’s the future of Internet technology‚ which allows you to connect to Internet without being fixed to one place like PC. In this era of fierce competition‚ all these giants companies must have to be very innovative and need to expand their horizons in the mobile computing to lead the market. Google: It provides
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University Faculty of Information Technology Green Computing in Kenya Thursday April 10th ‚ 2014 Abstract The main aim of this paper is to look at what green computing is‚ why we should care about it and why it is becoming such a force in today’s world. The paper aims to tackle the advantages of green computing not only to businesses but also to individuals as well in their day to day lives. This paper also aims to look at different green computing implementations in Kenya in order to get an
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connects your PC to each of the XD2 access devices through a standard Category 5e or shielded Category 6 cable. Each XD2 connects to a user’s keyboard‚ monitor‚ mouse and speakers. All these components work together to efficiently harness the excess computing capacity of your PC so multiple users can share it at the same
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and On-Demand Computing by Beryl Morgan November 4‚ 2007 Outsourcing and on-demand computing are two of the fastest emerging business tactics in the industry today. In outsourcing‚ businesses contract out certain services to an outside provider or manufacturer‚ often overseas. On-demand computing is similar to outsourcing only here businesses contract out their computing resources‚ such as computation and storage‚ rather than an actual business services. The computing is tracked as
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much broader than th at one was. The main purpose of the Green Computing Research Project is to research possible applications of gre en computing including: Data center and overall energy efficiency The disposal of electronic waste and recycling Telecommuting Virtualization of server resources Thin client solutions Use of open source software‚ and Development of new software to addres s green computing for internal use and potential sale to other organizations The
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MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF COMPUTING & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Industrial Attachment Report. Course: BSc Computer Technology. Attachment Period: February 2013 – April 2013. Unit: Attachment II Code: BCT 2412 Date submitted:________________ DECLARATION This is my original work submitted for academic credit in partial fulfilment of the regulation governing the award of degree in Bachelor of Science in Computer Technology Name: Mr P Kirui Signature: __________________
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