Amigan - Slashdot User

IBM announces purchase of Platform Computing-> 0

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on Tuesday October 11 2011, @11:43AM

Amigan writes "IBM enhances it's HPC software by purchasing Platform Computing "
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Amiga - the movie-> 0

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on Monday July 11 2011, @01:18PM

Amigan writes "A fund raising effort for a direct to DVD movie about the Amiga computer history. How it was conceived, the Commodore years, and the fact that the machine will not die."
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10 petaflop computer for Argonne-> 0

Submitted by Amigan on Tuesday February 08 2011, @09:48AM

Amigan writes "IBM's Blue Gene / Q will be the basis for a new Petaflop supercomputer to be installed at Argonne National Labs."
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Electric cars and cold weather-> 1

Submitted by Amigan on Monday January 31 2011, @03:24PM

Amigan writes "While electric cars are the choice of many, there is a fatal flaw vs the gasoline engine — chemical reactions within an electric battery are affected by cold weather."
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Amiga demonstration helps win Patent Troll-> 0

Submitted by Amigan on Friday May 14 2010, @04:51PM

Amigan writes "Over on groklaw , PJ is reporting that an actual demonstration of the Amiga OS (circa 1988) on an Amiga A1000 may have been the turning point in the lawsuit of IP Innovation v. Red Hat/Novell."
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US Civics knowledge dropping-> 0

Submitted by Amigan on Wednesday February 10 2010, @11:38PM

Amigan writes "The average score of college seniors from Duke, Yale, Princeton, and Georgetown barely surpasses a D on this US civics quiz "
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EU approves Oracle/Sun merger with no alterations-> 0

Submitted by Amigan on Thursday January 21 2010, @10:29AM

Amigan writes "After several months of investigation, the European Commission has approved the Oracle acquisition of Sun. MySQL, which had been seen as a sticking point, is a moot point — no divestiture, much to the chagrin of one of the co-founders, Michael Widenius"
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The machine that wouldn't die 0

Submitted by Amigan on Friday January 08 2010, @10:40AM

Amigan writes "On the 25th anniversary of it's original introduction, the next generation has been announced. Dual core PowerPC, next generation PCIe (8x), and more."

President Obama to recognize IBM's BlueGene-> 0

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on Friday September 18 2009, @10:10AM

Amigan writes "President Obama will be awarding IBM it's eigth National Medal of Technology and Innovation for it's innovative supercomputer Blue Gene family."
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Cyber war involving Cyber theft of IDs 0

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on Monday August 17 2009, @02:27PM

Amigan writes "The Wall Street Journal is reporting on how social networking ids from the United States were hijacked for cyberattacks against Georgia during their war with Russia last year."