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Supercomputer powered by graphics chips; Microsoft touts AD 'clip-on'

By Network World Staff, Network World, 11/18/2009
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Georgia Tech researchers building an experimental new supercomputer say graphics processors may help pave the way toward future exascale machines, which would be 1,000 times faster than today's most powerful supercomputers. Microsoft will pass out beta code today that it hopes will define the next evolution of directories. It's a modular add-on that is built on a database and designed to add querying capabilities and performance never before possible in a directory. (5:10)

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